At 07:17 AM 29/01/01 -0000, you wrote: >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >5. Saving Souls – Without Permission >Some of you may have already seen the letter in February's Family Tree >Magazine. >The writer states he found his parents' and grandparents' baptism details >had been submitted to the LDS by an xth cousin y times removed. >However he looked a little closer … as a result he found that, though they >were Anglicans by faith, the LDS had sealed the ordnances to >retrospectively baptise them into the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter >Day Saints. >If anyone wishes to discuss this in the open, you can do so in the >Conference of Australian History which you can join from This is not new. The LDS often breaks their own rules about retrospective baptism being only for direct ancestors of Church members. Among Jewish records that have received the honour of this divine assistance I can count the marriage of my own gr.gr.grandparents, and everyone else entered as married or born in a few London Synagogue registers, thousands of Jews listed in "Americans of Jewish Descent", and hundreds of thousands of German and other Jewish Holocaust victims extracted from the memorial lists of the "Gedenkbuch". After two years of agitation and negotiation the victims names were removed from the IGI lists, but un-baptism is a theological impossibility. On the same source film as the extracts from the American Jews book were a number of blanket baptisms of names taken from 13th century French tax records by the LDS Medieval Research Department. Gary =================== Gary Luke feraltek@zeta.org.au fax +61-2-9519-9907 Sydney, Australia