News on the web (The Daily Telegraph) indicates that British owned genealogy website 1837online.com is up for sale. Interesting in this article, isn’t the fact that the site is for sale, but how much they expect to make from the sale.

The article mentions that the website has revenue of 10 million pounds, and profit of 3.5 million pounds (don’t we all wish we had that kind of profit and revenue ). They expect to fetch a price of between 30-40 million pounds… or 3-4x revenue, 18-22x profit. WOW!

Hmmm… at that multiple, I might be willing to part with my genealogy websites too…