This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WWC.2ACI/3734.3.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The churches won't do genealogical research. There are just too many requests from all over the world and no staff to respond to them. There's a clergy shortage so the clergy are hard pressed as it is with their religious duties.