Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family is currently streaming on Curiosity Stream

Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family (2018)56 minDocumentaryRating 39/100

The family history business is booming. English Professor Julia Creet explores the bigger picture behind the ancestry industry. This documentary explores what may be the largest historical enterprise in the world, and one of the largest data-mining operations, and how it is driven by big religion, big technology and big business.

Cast: Steven Pinker

Director: Julia Creet