Ancestry.com is not owned by the LDS church. There are some LDS members that work there and run the site. The LDS genealogy archives in Salt Lake City do contain many records submitted by members as well as non-members of the LDS church. Many errors are found there because of lack of knowledge in research and piggy-backing of the records. Unfortunately those records were seldom documented as they were submitted as their own family lines. The church is in the process of a huge clean-up of the records which is costing an incredible amount of money and man hours and will be ready soon to begin to accept documented lines to be submitted by anyone who wishes to do so. And of course Salt Lake Family History Library is the repository of massive amounts of actual documents and records that have been photo copied from all over the world, from churches to court houses. It is a wonderful place to research and they even have copies of records that only exist there when old churches have finally burned or had floods or such things. The church was in the process of filming the records in New Orleans just before it was flooded and those records were saved and now the church will give the city copies of the records that they would have lost forever. I am a member of the LDS church and have been involved in research for ! many years and YES, I do document my records. Unfortunately I didn't in the early days, as many of you have learned to do. Kathryn