I couldn't agree with you more. And trying to get the LDS to make changes on their website it like pulling teeth...even though you have the documents to prove it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cara_Links" <cracker@hotkey.net.au> To: <IRELAND-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 7:38 PM Subject: [Irish-Roots] LDS STATEMENT > Sir or Madame > > Whist I have nothing against the mormons, and please note that before > Reading on, I do find your off beat remarks regarding the placement of > wrong details on their searchable web site as cause for grief, not all > those details were posted 30 years ago, they are still being posted quite > incorrectly, by those people deeming them correct today -so here we are in > 2005, still seeing wrong data posted to the site. > > Why then is it so hard for the LDS site to simply check what people when > they notice it to be incorrect, to simply correct it ( where proper > certificates can be produced of course) > And how are you so sure that the church asked them to submit the data ? > > You even say the inccorect ones may lead to you another piece of the > puzzle, if they are incorrect then that is what it is incorrect and > misleading. > > And while I am always greatful for any snippet that may lead my search to > further progress, when I find that my very own grandfather has been sealed > by some loose moron to the wrong parents, and given an extra middle name, > it gets my green eyes firing and my red hair shines with electricity, and > more so as it took me many mails and much hurt to have it all removed by > the LDS site, and further more it caused great grief to his only daughter > my mother who was devout in her own religion, and was doubly sure her own > father was not a Morman. > > > I always advocate that people doing research put away their *family > stories* until such times that they have found the necessary documents, > but what is a family research without the hidden little stories, and so I > tell them to add them in later. > > I am of the awareness that LDS is collecting all details that they can and > sealing people to their parents, but has it occured to you that not > everyone is of the Mormon faith, and this is realy a very sad thing when > they do this as I have explained above. > > So people before you willingly give your work away to the people who offer > to do these strange things like *Submit * to the LDS site, think long and > hard on what they want with your details. > > You said >> My offer still stands for submitting anyone's research for the Temple >> Work >> to be done. > > this is your belief and you are entitled to it, and I do respect that, > dont think I dont, but before anyone goes off willy nilly beleiving that > giving your dearly departed people over to the LDS is going to create a > better site, forget it, like everything else in this world even their site > is becoming a commercial minded venture. > > Yours in Gene > Cara > > > > > > > > > ==== IRELAND-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Plant your Irish roots here! > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >