Ancestry.com to be sold for $1.6 billion

Ancestry.com, the online genealogy site, agreed Monday to be purchased by Permira, a European private equity firm, for $1.6 billion. The purchase price of $32 a share is a 9.7% premium from Friday's closing price. Shares were up 7.9% in premarket trading on the news.  

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