In other words, they just rebaptized everyone on the films? Hmmm. That's pretty arrogant and amazing, isn't it? We were told when our genealogy instructor took us to the Family History Center the first time for a tour that the members place their ancestors' names in a special box or vault in the Temple for re-baptizing and that is why they have to do their family histories. At our FHC it is always full of church members doing their research .... If they were all rebaptized AUTOMATICALLY, it doesn't seem to make any sense, then, that the LDS would have spent all the time, effort and money to create all those Family History Centers and the online research site and so forth. Does it? I'm fully open to any answer -- not being Mormon -- but I wonder if they meant it is the Church that does the actual baptizing after the person has found his ancestor? And it is the Church that has put its members' family histories into the IGI? In my own faith, for instance, any baptized Christian can baptize -- and I baptized my preemie daughter ASAP after birth in the hospital -- then had her baptized again later at my Church, for the record. But the first baptism was "real." Did the person answering your question mean all the people on all the films were automatically re-baptized? Or maybe that after an ancestor is found, the member of the Mormon faith does not and can not, under their rules, re-baptize his own ancestor ..... but ONLY THE CHURCH can do that act or ceremony of re-baptizing? M. ----- Original Message ----- From: Irishcolleen45@aol.com To: irish-new-york-city@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:07 AM Subject: Re: [IRISH-NYC] CHURCH RECORDS Maureen, My grandfather was re baptized by the Mormons when his record was included in the index. I specially asked if there was an ancestor that did that (at the time I was early in my research and was looking for his siblings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and I was told it was the Mormon Church that had done that, no ancestor. Nora Hopkins FitzGerald Hopkins - Castlebar, Co. Mayo/New York City Grant - Drumboniff, Co. Down/NYC In a message dated 1/2/2008 3:20:44 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, _mcshelly2@msn.com_ (mailto:mcshelly2@msn.com) writes: ....... Since the Mormons re baptize their ancestors when they find them, many congregations do not want the Mormons to have films of their records. And among those are some Roman Catholic churches. It is their choice, they are the owners. **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message