How to remove yourself from Ancestry (UK Electoral Registers 2003-2018)
- Holder
- Ancestry Ireland Unlimited Company, EXO Building, Point Square Plaza, East Wall Road, Dublin 1
- How you come off
- Erasure request by emailyou send it, we time it
- They may ask for
- Nothing beyond the name and address they already hold.
- Legal deadline
- 30 days · UK GDPR Art.17 (erasure) and Art.21 (objection to direct marketing - absolute right)
- Re-lists
- No — once it is off, it stays off.
- Time it takes
- About ten minutesthey usually act within 30 days
- Last verified
- 7 September 2026
- Difficulty
- Medium
How to get removed
- Send a UK GDPR Art. 17 erasure request to privacy@ancestry.com. We write it for you, ready to send — it goes from your own address, so their reply comes straight to you.
- Typically 30 days to take effect. The legal deadline is 30 days either way - we count it and tell you the day it lapses.
Considered case by case; often declined without a stated safety concern. Set user expectations.
Why you come back
This one does not re-acquire, so a completed removal holds. Most do not: the holders that buy public records re-buy them about every four months, which is why the rest of this register is re-checked rather than ticked off.
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