It is my understanding that your mother is correct. They do pray for the dead. Perhaps there are some Mormons out there which can tell us if that is true? ---MooZle <moozle@netdoor.com> wrote: > > My understanding of this is that Mormon's "seal" their families together for > eternity. I came across some of my family in the IGI that were sealed by a > Mormon relative back in the 1960's, even though they weren't of the Mormon > faith. It sort of made me mad because I thought this very presumptuous of that > relative to include families in their faith practice who might not and probably > did not want that done. I sure don't want it done with me because (without > getting into a religious debate here) I don't believe in this doctrine. > > --------------------------------------------------------- > >My mother seemed to think that the Mormons believed that they > >could pray dead relatives into heaven, and that's why they put all of their > >relatives in the IGI even the ones that were not Mormon. I don't know if this > >is right, but it seems logical to me that if you are a Mormon, and you are > >putting together your family tree, you would list all of your relatives. Even > >the Baptists and Lutherans, or else they would have big gaps in their family > > > > ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== > To contact the GenTips list owner, use converse@alltel.net > > > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com