-----Original Message----- From: Barbara Farthing Bonham <msb@myfamily.org> To: NCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com <NCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 1:59 PM Subject: [NCROOTS-L] LDS Announcement >3.38 p.m. ET (2039 GMT) March 6, 1999 > > SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church says it will put at least some > of its family-history archive — the world's largest — on the World Wide >Web. > > The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posted a statement >about the > plan on its official Web site, www.lds.org, on Friday. > > One leader last year said the church has archived the names of 13 >billion people > from 110 countries. > > "There are millions and millions of records just in their International >Genealogy > Index alone, and millions more in their ancestral files, and both of >those are > electronic databases,'' Karen Clifford, president and chief executive >officer of > Geneaological Research Associates, said in Saturday editions of The >Salt Lake > Tribune. > > The church said it is posting the information as a service that will >greatly enhance > the way people trace their family history. A formal announcement is >expected in > the spring or summer. > > The Mormon church has been involved in genealogy since its founding >nearly 170 > years ago. The church amasses the records for its so-called baptism of >the dead. > Mormons believe that such baptisms give the dead the opportunity to >join the > Mormon church in the afterlife. > > >-- >Barbara Farthing Bonham >Summerville SC >Proud Supporter of Rootsweb > > > >==== NCROOTS Mailing List ==== >NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political >announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, >etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal >and exclusion from this mailing list. Spam crashes our servers and we have >to take a stand. For comments or list administration questions,please >Barbara Farthing Bonham msb@myfamily.org > >