Is there an Ancestry.com IPO in your future?

Several individuals have inquired if there are any rumors of an IPO for Ancestry.com's parent company, The Generations Network.

Postal regulations require periodicals to publish a Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation in their October issue. The form not only discloses the name and address of the owning firm, but "all stockholders owning or holding 1 percent or more of the total amount of stock" in that firm.

Since Ancestry magazine and Ancestry.com are both produced by The Generations Network, we have an opportunity each October to see who are the movers and the shakers that have the biggest influence over the company's IPO goals.

Last October the big owners were:

• MyFamily.com, Inc. (now, The Generations Network)
  360 West 4800 North
  Provo, UT 84604
• CMGI (all their companies combined)
  4 Sierra Lane
  Portola Valley, CA 94028
• Craig Sherman
• CrossLink Crossover Fund IV, L.P.
  Crosslink Ventures IV, L.P.
  Embarcadero Center Ste 2200
  San Francisco, CA 94111, USA
• CSFB Strategic Partners III VC Holdings, L.P.
  650 California Street, 32 Floor
  San Francisco, CA 94108
• E-Net Three, L.L.C. [EsNet]
  5152 N. Edgewood Dr., Ste. 350
  Provo, UT 84604
• Intel Corporation
  2200 Mission College Blvd., RN6-37
  Santa Clara, CA 95052
• Sorenson Media, Inc.
  4393 South Riverboat Road #300
  Salt Lake City, UT 84123
• Spectrum Online Partners LLC
  333 Middlefield Road
  Menlo Park, CA 94025
• Tango Partners V, L.P. [HCV]
  831 Pearl Street
  Boulder, CO 80302
• The Canopy Group, Inc.
  333 South 520 West
  Lindon, UT 84042
• Tom Stockham
• vSpring SBIC
  2795 E Cottonwood Parkway, Ste. 360
  Salt Lake City, UT 84121
• Waelinvest S.A.
  22 avenue Montaigne
  Paris 95008, FRANCE
• Wasatch Venture Corporation
  One South Main Street, Suite 1660
  Salt Lake City, UT 84133

It will be interesting to see if any changes are revealed in October's disclosure. Many of these folks have a tremendous amount of skin in the game.