I don’t know if I’m just doing something wrong but I built my family tree and the website seems to have barely any information about my family at all. I found out more just checking out our national archives then what I found on this website. It’s maybe worth noting that I’m not in the US and it does appear to be somewhat US-centric.
The best it could find was a couple of enrollment records for voting and a single immigrant notification in an old newspaper. It didn’t find these either by itself, I had to manually go though the search system to find it. The OCR didn’t even get the spelling of the name correct.
I’m not sure what I expected but it was definitely better than this, especially for all the pay walls they throw up.
Owned not run. The LDS has never run Ancestry directly. The service LDS runs is a competing free service.
I can find multiple sources that state a 30% stake at certain points but I can’t say I trust them as they are blogs. I’ll keep looking.
As an aside LDS and HRCC are very different in terms of how they view money and investment.