Nancy and Harvey: Mormonism is a very dangerous topic. I WILL say as the g-granddaughter of one of the "High 12".... YES, Mormons do indeed do the research for the specific purpose of "praying them into Heaven" Mormons believe in the "baptism of the dead" and that one must perform baptisms on behalf of dead relatives/ancestors so that those relatives are not left lingering in their version of purgatory and also to assure your own place in the Celestial Kingdom- individuals are called to research on behalf of LDS as their "works" on earth. My grandparents were adamant when my father died that he must have a proxy baptism, even though he was strongly anti-Mormon and believed strongly that Mormonism was a cult (He broke the Mormonism chain in our branch of the family). Against his wishes and mine, I found out doing genealogy research that indeed, a proxy-baptism was performed for him. I also found that my grandmother was one of the head researchers for LDS... for the purpose of proxy-baptism for deceased individuals. So, to some extent, Harvey is correct. -SB