Pretty harsh. Unjustly blaming the LDS. Their service is really quite good, not middling. Not likely any government organizations would ever do something like this.
It is just reality.
Ancestry dot com grew out of a company called Infobases which was founded to offer Latter-day Saints (LDS) publications on floppy disks.
Baptism for the dead is the ONLY reason the LDS church puts so much effort into Genealogy. The practice is due to revelation received by the prophet Joseph Smith and thus is almost as old as the church.
The reason they provide a good service is because they want to convert your dead relatives…if the truth is harsh it still remains the truth.
So what? My dead relatives are dead. If someone wants to baptize them, who cares?
Some people don’t like it when a homophobic, racist and socially conservative church adds their relatives to the roles without permission.
But ya…there is no rational reason that a holocaust victims family would have a problem with the LDS church doing that…especially after they have baptized Hitler dozens of times.
Who really cares if the ex-communicated rape victims from BYU find their names on the list of names “ready” for baptism.
Or maybe you should check your privilege.
:rolleyes:
Are you saying I should stop doing genealogy and/or publishing it to protect those who’re troubled by the use the LDS might make of it, or might make of totally different data? And if not, is it acceptable to use the research tools the LDS make available for free in competition with ancestry, as long as I don’t publish through their tools, cause, you know, they have their own sites completely separate from ancestry, right? And if not, which publishing tools am I allowed to use without abusing the privilege of not giving a fuck if someone baptises my great-great-grandparents?
Offer some proper guidelines here, please, oh god of genealogical propriety.
Holy shit…did you manufacture that entire thing from my posts…you must be a writer.
If I say “this bores me now” I am afraid you will construct some massive theory about how 9/11 was caused by which hand you use to wipe.
Get over yourself, and no they don’t have a different sites completely separate from ancestry, the family research centers have access to Ancestry.
And yes they do use those sites to baptize holocaust victims, hitler and ex-mormons whom were kicked out for doing things like reporting the fact that someone raped them.
More than half my ancestors were Roman Catholic Irish. Baptized as infants. You can only be baptized once; a previously baptized Protestant who converts to RC gets anointed.
The others were Protestants of various sorts–most of whom get baptized at some point, don’t they? So they’re safe.
As an Atheist, I refused to get upset about Mormon mumbo jumbo.
Thank you, I aspire to be one on occasion. Note how I posed those as questions? That’s because I don’t believe that’s what you mean, but what you’ve said so far doesn’t make sense.
The LDS offers access to lots of resources for free at familysearch.org is what I meant when I wrote that the church has its own site.
That family search centers offer access to ancestry is hardly surprising, but so does my local genealogical society from their library, and family search centers offer access to other for profit resources as well, including myHeritage, headquartered in Israel. You’ve really not offered a good argument for ancestry.com and LDS baptism practices being more intrinsically linked than ancestry’s origin.
Now if you can offer some reason that avoiding ancestry and using myHeritage and alternative source repositories will hamper LDS baptisms, I’ll be happy to acknowledge your points.
You misspelled “made up.”
And I don’t give a royal shit, as I don’t believe in their god or any of the fantasy bullshit that goes along with religious groups. You’re letting them live in your head for some reason, which must be exhausting.