Well it could be good because their primary interest is making money so one of their aims must be to attract more subscribers and retain them, to do that, because they have competitors on the horizon that are coming up behind them quickly, is to have records and tools that others haven't got or that performs better.

However the health side could be lucrative for reasons that I would not like but I think before they do anything with that they would separate it out.

Rumour is that Ancestry was in some financial trouble don't know if that is true. They are having problems on their site with error messages which probably means their servers can't cope so that should be the first thing tackled.