The two companies said Wednesday that they're combining their strengths and key employees but will maintain separate websites.
Archives.com is owned by Silicon Valley-based Technolo company Inflection LLC. It offers access to about 2 billion historical records, from birth records to obituaries, and has 380,000 paying customers.
Ancestry.com has 1.8 million customers. It's the world's largest online family history resource, with 9 billion records.
Ancestry President and CEO Tim Sullivan says Archives is a fast-growing business that has made putting together family history profiles simple and affordable.
Shares of Ancestry.com rose $1.04 to $24.44 Wednesday and climbed another $2.81 in extended trading after the deal was announced.
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