From: [email protected] (Kathie Donahue) To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:46:22 -0800 Subject: Re: LDS FHC why?? >To: [email protected] (Collene Pearce) >From: [email protected] (Kathie Donahue) >Subject: Re: LDS FHC why?? > >Dear Collene: > >I am a worker in an FHC and have been for over 14 years. The scripture upon which the LDS gnealogy effort is based is in the Old Testament Malachi, chapter 4...to paraphrase: And I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord and he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest the earth be smitten with a curse. > >Meaning, Elijah the prophet of ancient times will return to the earth (actually has already returned) and bring with him the keys for the sealings of families to each other in holy temples of the earth. The promises made to Abraham are made to all those baptized members of the House of Israel of all time who have been baptized according to holy ordinance....that is what is meant by the hearts of the fathers turning....the promises are there for their children. The turning of the hearts of the children is their acceptance of these promises and holy ordinances as they enter into sacred covenants which will encable them to be sealed to their parents, their children, their spouses and their family lineages for all time and eternit....that their family relationships will exist in God's Celestial kingdom as they have had on earth. > >But these links are dependant upon proper recorded information upon the earth...hence the effort to collect and store data on the part of faithful LDS members since the 1830's. > >I hope I have increased your understanding. Other LDS members may wish to correct me on certain points and I hope they will, if I am in error in any way here. > >By the way...the Indigenous races of the world, particularly the American Indian peoples, both North and South, are of special interest to the LDS church. The LDS scripture, the Book of Mormon, is the early history of many of the tribes in the Western Hemisphere. > >Hope this helps. > >Kathie Donahue > >P.S. A friend passed this on to me: Diana Hanson, CEO and Dean of Faculty and Staff - Iowa Digital Education Association, Professional Genealogist, Listowner [email protected] writes that she will be starting an on-line American Indian Genealogy class in a few weeks. Being only a year old in on-line genealogy, I haven't seen this before. Sounds interesting so I think I will tune in and see what is said. > >> >>Years ago, when I first started my genealogy research, >>someone introduced me to the material the Church of >>the LDS had compiled. At the time, I was told the >>whole story of why they compiled it, but now my >>memory is dim. ;-) I remember they search to find >>ancestors to "seal" to themselves, thereby being able ot >>be with them in heaven, but I don't remember how they >>believe that works or what this sealing process involves. >>Can someone please refresh my memory? >> >> >>:-) >>acp >>******* "Too many stupid people. Too few comets." ******** >>*********************************************************************** >>* A. Collene Pearce * Austin, TX, USA * >>* email: [email protected] * http://www.jumpnet.com/~collene * >>*********************************************************************** >> > Kathie Donahue, Spokane, WA and From: Carol McCoy <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 23:21:54 -0600 Subject: FHC GOING ONLINE While I was at the FHC today, one of the other patrons who had one of the LDS church bulletins or newsletters said that the files will be online in MARCH! I couldn't believe it, but that's what he said. Carol McCoy and From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 01:37:21 EST Subject: Re: FHC GOING ONLINE I heard the same thing on one of my other newslists. And someone said that they called the main library in Salt Lake and was given a confirmation on that rumor. Pretty cool, huh? Montique and From: "Frank R. Mayberry" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 00:37:31 -0600 Subject: FHC going Online! Hi, Karla! Go to this URL, I had no trouble: http://newsnet.byu.edu/noframes/show_story.cfm/?number=8836 Bye, Frank Mayberry in Muskogee, Ok ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]