Well Said Nancy, Most Agreeable, Thanks   POP --- On Wed, 8/25/10, Nancy Gooch <nlg123@comcast.net> wrote: From: Nancy Gooch <nlg123@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [LL] Mormon doctrine etc To: lovelace@rootsweb.com Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 5:18 AM Whatever the beliefs of the Mormons, the point is, and all I'm saying is that because of their work in gathering all this information and having it available for free to all people, that we should not jump on their beliefs in a derogatory manner on this list or anywhere else.  The Mormons have done more for genealogical research than anyone anywhere.  The Mormons   have research centers all around the country, where anyone, no matter what your religion or beliefs can go and look at records from all over the world. Records that most of us cannot travel all the places we  would need to go to find those records on our own.  I for one am grateful for that.  I have been to their family centers for research many times and not once have any of them ever tried to convert me or asked for my information so that they could pray my ancestors into Heaven.    Whether or not we agree or disagree with their beliefs is totally beside the point.  I don't really know much about their beliefs and frankly I don't care what they believe , they have gathered in the records, made them available to all, so all I'm saying is that we don't need to be knocking anyone or anything on this list, especially people's religion, politics or family. For whatever reasons we all relish the hunt.  Of course we run across errors in our research, there are many out there, and not just from people putting undocumented information on ancestry or wherever, but in census records, marriage records, there are possibilites for errors everywhere.  That is why we stress doing your own research , documenting your own findings , so that we know for a fact or not that so and so was so and so's father, or at least we know who the father is according to the records, right or wrong. Nancy Lovelace Gooch Atlanta, Ga ----- Original Message ----- From: "S B" <research33@hotmail.com> To: lovelace@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:45:19 AM Subject: Re: [LL] Mormon doctrine etc 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                                                   ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message