This preliminary study aims to understand Turkish individuals’ (n=55) curiosity about their genealogical roots. Specifically, it seeks to clarify which factors are responsible for using pedigree information service (PIS) provided by the Turkish e-Government Gate infrastructure. PIS has been serving since February 2018, and it attracted the great attention of Turkish citizens. In its early days, most individuals were unable to access the system due to overload (Ozan & Önen, 2019). Given the fact that place is an essential constituent of one’s identity (Lalli, 1992), the interest of one’s ancestors cannot be thought independent of the place of origin. To figure out how place-related variables are associated with using PIS, we address several questions to our participants. Results revealed that almost everyone (94.5%) used PIS to learn where their ancestors came from. 71.16 % of our respondents posited that they tried to enter PIS in a week at the latest after it was put into service. However, only 36.5% of them were able to access the system on the first try. Respondents posited that they use PIS; a) to learn the names of their ancestors (49.3%), b) to know about their ethnicity and culture (23.9%), and c) to learn their place of origin. Most of our participants (65%) stated that they feel nothing or do not feel surprised when they learn details about their ancestors. They indicated that PIS has not sufficient information about their family members and/or they already know about these details. This finding is important since it demonstrates that individuals always seek knowledge about their past to form their identities. Their unsurprised reaction to the PIS information is also crucial because they expected to learn more about their ancestors to strengthen their social identities.