familysearch.org
Mixed
Results vary across familysearch.org: of 5 URLs tested, 3 are blocked, 1 is disrupted some of the time and 1 loads normally. The site itself, https://familysearch.org, is blocked. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, poisons its DNS and blocks the connection outright. 140 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-10, the most recent on 2026-08-22.
The site itself
http://familysearch.orgBlockedhttps://familysearch.orgBlockedhttp://www.familysearch.orgBlockedPages and subdomains (2)
https://familysearch.org/chinese/surnameas of 2026Intermittenthttps://www.familysearch.org/en/united-statesas of 2026Not blockedAbout familysearch.org and the Great Firewall
Results vary across familysearch.org: of 5 URLs tested, 3 are blocked, 1 is disrupted some of the time and 1 loads normally. The site itself, https://familysearch.org, is blocked. The Great Firewall silently drops its packets so requests time out, poisons its DNS and blocks the connection outright. 140 tests have been run under this domain since 2012-05-10, the most recent on 2026-08-22.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks familysearch.org. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
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