I recently found my father's name on Ancestry.com as being submitted for baptism into the Mormon Church. I contacted the Mormon Church about how to have this changed since I know that my father would never want to be a Mormon. In this message you will see the text of my message to them and their message which virtually ignores the question I was asking. So. . .I will no longer share information about my genealogical charts unless 1) the person states unequivocally that they are not a member of the Mormon Church, and 2) they promise NEVER to share the info with the Mormon Church. All of the links to genealogical information have been removed from my web-page. I realize that this is not fool-proof and that apparently the Mormon Church already has all of my family information, but I'm doing this as a protest to the Mormon Church's proselytizing of dead people. Janet Estep. Thank you for using the FamilySearch Internet web site. The mentioned site, ancestry.com is not our site. You need to contact them concerning your situation. Your message #68418-----*db*----- My father, Austin David Ballengee, in ancestry.com shows LDS Baptism status, endowment status, sealing child status submitted 24 may 1999. I am his only child; he has been dead for 31 years; he was not LDS. How can I change this listing? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ==============================================================================

Janet, It can be changed if is was submitted to the church. Difficult yes, but really easy if you just contact the person who submitted it. My great-grandfather is listed as being married to someone I do not know - not part of the family. Contacting the submitter is difficult as lots of the emails are not correct. So just submit your true data to Rootsweb.com with a real email. Ancestry.com now picks up the Rootsweb.com data. So anyone who submitted their data to both ancestry and rootsweb and the LDS appear several time via tree connections. I do agree with you, lots of people are putting out meaningless data, no dates, no birth states, etc. How can anyone connect. The overall plan was a good one, but too many people have uploaded trees with several thousand names and keep re-uploading instead of updating. I too have questioned ancestry about this. They are trying to fix things. Jan <>< --- Janet Estep <jestep@vh.vccs.edu> wrote: > I recently found my father's name on Ancestry.com as > being submitted for baptism into the Mormon Church. > I contacted the Mormon Church about how to have this > changed since I know that my father would never want > to be a Mormon. In this message you will see the > text of my message to them and their message which > virtually ignores the question I was asking. > > So. . .I will no longer share information about my > genealogical charts unless 1) the person states > unequivocally that they are not a member of the > Mormon Church, and 2) they promise NEVER to share > the info with the Mormon Church. All of the links > to genealogical information have been removed from > my web-page. > > I realize that this is not fool-proof and that > apparently the Mormon Church already has all of my > family information, but I'm doing this as a protest > to the Mormon Church's proselytizing of dead people. > > > Janet Estep. > > Thank you for using the FamilySearch Internet web > site. The mentioned site, ancestry.com is not our > site. You need to contact them concerning your > situation. > > Your message #68418-----*db*----- > > My father, Austin David Ballengee, in ancestry.com > shows LDS Baptism status, endowment status, sealing > child status submitted 24 may 1999. I am his only > child; he has been dead for 31 years; he was not > LDS. How can I change this listing? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ============================================================================== > > > > ==== KYLEWIS Mailing List ==== > > Messge Board: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.lewis&o=1&maxrows=25&dir=next > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com

Janet, You can find out who sent the information in to the LDS church and contact them Privately. I am sorry it disturbs you so much. They should of asked permission before this was done .. Once it is done? It can not be undone .. it is a fact. So please just let it go .. Go after the one that turned his name in. Those that are searching? It helps to find the names to do research .. has helped me many times to find sources. They must have sources to turn the name in. Regards, Derre ----- Original Message ----- From: Janet Estep <jestep@vh.vccs.edu> To: <KYLEWIS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 8:50 AM Subject: [ KYLEWIS] The Mormon Church and genealogy > I recently found my father's name on Ancestry.com as being submitted for baptism into the Mormon Church. I contacted the Mormon Church about how to have this changed since I know that my father would never want to be a Mormon. In this message you will see the text of my message to them and their message which virtually ignores the question I was asking. > > So. . .I will no longer share information about my genealogical charts unless 1) the person states unequivocally that they are not a member of the Mormon Church, and 2) they promise NEVER to share the info with the Mormon Church. All of the links to genealogical information have been removed from my web-page. > > I realize that this is not fool-proof and that apparently the Mormon Church already has all of my family information, but I'm doing this as a protest to the Mormon Church's proselytizing of dead people. > > Janet Estep. > > Thank you for using the FamilySearch Internet web site. The mentioned site, ancestry.com is not our site. You need to contact them concerning your situation. > > Your message #68418-----*db*----- > > My father, Austin David Ballengee, in ancestry.com shows LDS Baptism status, endowment status, sealing child status submitted 24 may 1999. I am his only child; he has been dead for 31 years; he was not LDS. How can I change this listing? > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > > ============================================================================ == > > > > ==== KYLEWIS Mailing List ==== > > Messge Board: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st ates.kentucky.counties.lewis&o=1&maxrows=25&dir=next > >