Oh, Cary. You have made my day. You give LOL a whole new meaning. Hilarious and well put. Craig On Oct 3, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Cary Anderson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "George W. Durman" <GermannaResearch@comcast.net> > > You make take exception to the "profit" angle, but that organization >> (My Family and all it's subsidiaries) have progressed far beyond the >> original goal of "sealing" everyone who has ever lived. All the LDS >> endeavors are now about "milking the genealogy cash cow". Would >> love to see their yearly "non-profit" IRS statements. Wonder how >> many billions My Family is now worth. > > George, > > First, I am not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. > However, I do have great respect for their endeavors to get it right. Since > about 20 per cent of the members are able to get recommends to enter a > temple, it is just like other churches on being able to get their members to > really tow the line! Even most of those denominations that used to be very > strict and > threw a member out of the church on the least violation, now tend to look > the other way. > > Don't get carried away, George! I hope I don't! Ancestry.com is NOT owned by > the LDS church and never has been. History--2 fellows started a company > using some LDS material, > but also some original census work. I still use those ACI fiches which we > have at the > local Family History Center. They merged as you know tax lists and census > records > as well as other material to create great list of folks every ten years and > colonial times. > I still from time to time smash a brick wall using the old AIC fiches at the > local FHC. > > The IGI sometimes gets confused with the other lists AIC [Accelerated > Indexing Systems]. > The two partners of ACI had a falling out. One went out the door leaving > somethings > behind and others in his pockets. Of part of this, some wound up in Illinois > in somones > back yard or at least copies. > > One of the partners started Ancestry. A short time ago this partner sold to > a non-LDS person Ancestry. While the new owners of Ancestry live in > Utah, they are not members of the LDS church. > > The programs that the LDS church use now for Temple work are available only > to LDS > members. The temple work being done now is no longer added to the IGI. Nor > are > the extraction programs in process whereby all the microfilm held by the > church will have > names and and any dates and places computerized. Non-LDS members may > participate in > this extraction program if they so wish. > > The LDS church has recognized errors have been made in the passed in some of > the > application of church ordiances and have banned the mass apllication apllied > to a list > of all males or females from some remote village in outer Mongolia, etc. I > never was > bothered by this practice--I am not LDS; rather one of the few High > Churchers still active the Episcopal church USA. > > I just shrugged off the moaning and groaning about "They baptized my > ancestors!" Well, > if one thought that would make them assured of the eternal bliss regardless > the fact that > many might be reprobates, then I suggested we should leave all our records > to the LDS, and > request ordianance work after we die. Just as good insurance policy! > Seriously, if one > believes that baptising the dead is valid, then the only church I know that > does that, is the > LDS. > > Most of my LDS friends have good laughs over all the mess people of good > intentions had. > They are trying to unscramle good intentions and get the real great-grandma > established out > of the many misguided "good intentions." > > After all, who besides me, have never made an error of judgement in our > genealogical endeavors? smile. > > Cary > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

RE: Ancestry.com, LDS, etc. Craig wrote: > Oh, Cary. You have made my day. You give LOL a whole new meaning. Hilarious and well put. Craig , Thanks every so much for your comet. It made my morning, and I really needed something lake your e-mail. I love the word Hilarious. I wonder when if I will ever get together the additions to the Clore/Klar tree back to Hilarious of Obergimpern? One must keep humor in the pursuit of genealogy. The other choice is the Nutt house. Cary