Who owns the genealogy companies?

One of the trends of modern society is the centralization of the
production, transportation and sale of goods and services, particularly
information services, in larger and larger international corporations.
The Internet reflects the world at large in concentrating a lot of
resources under the control of a few very large organizations. Perhaps,
finding out who owns and runs these organizations and where they are
located would be an eye opener. To discover this information, it
sometimes takes following a long history of acquisitions and mergers to
discover what entity is in control of the present organization. In some
cases, Wikipedia is useful in providing background information. I would
assume that if a particular Wikipedia article was inaccurate, these
larger companies would take steps to correct the misinformation. In all
of this, I do not claim to have any particular insight or knowledge
about the companies other than what I can discover online. It looks like
this will turn into a series of articles, the history of these
companies is so complex.

First on the list is Ancestry.com.
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