Geneology, I am doing it!

[PaloAltoCougar]

Let us know when you get it done back to Adam. That's always an exciting milestone.

Once one gets to Noah, it's a piece of cake, although I had some trouble completing the lines of his daughters-in-law.

[Uncle Ted]

There used to be a section of the Ensign where members could send in questions and have them answered by an authority (It may still have this, I haven't looked at one in a while).
Anyway about 10 years ago someone wrote in and asked if it was possible to trace geneoloy back to Adam. The person who answered said that it was NOT possible to do so.
Not that Adam was literal anyway.

Bummer... We need that Law of Adoption back.

[Uncle Ted]

Be careful on the names you submit to the church's genealogical database...

An LDS Church member last month posthumously baptized the parents of Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate, and the Los Angeles center named for him is incensed.

"We are outraged that such insensitive actions continue in the Mormon temples," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Wiesenthal Center’s associate dean, said in a statement on the group’s website. "Such actions make a mockery of the many meetings with the top leadership of the Mormon church."

LDS officials in Salt Lake City were quick to apologize Monday, saying that the Utah-based faith "sincerely regret[s] that the actions of an individual member ... led to the inappropriate submission of these names," which were "clearly against the policy of the church."

"We consider this a serious breach of our protocol," spokesman Scott Trotter said in a statement, "and we have suspended indefinitely this person’s ability to access our genealogy records."

But the Jewish community may ask for something "stronger"...

"The only way this is going to be stopped is by the church reprimanding individuals doing it — first with a warning, then something stronger," Mokotoff said in 2010, "maybe excommunication."

[Sullyute]

Be careful on the names you submit to the church's genealogical database...

"We consider this a serious breach of our protocol," spokesman Scott Trotter said in a statement, "and we have suspended indefinitely this person’s ability to access our genealogy records."

See if that person was indexing like the rest of us then they wouldn't have that problem.

[Indy Coug]

So who discovered this most recent baptism? Us or them?

[wuapinmon]

So who discovered this most recent baptism? Us or them?

Probably a disgruntled exmo.

[Indy Coug]

Probably a disgruntled exmo.

It would be a more interesting story if the church self-reported.

[wuapinmon]

It would be a more interesting story if the church self-reported.

I agree.

[Surfah]

Probably a disgruntled exmo.

Winner, winner chicken dinner.

http://news.yahoo.com/mormons-apolog...190124456.html

Radkey found documentation of the baptism of the Wiesenthals last week while conducting regular checks of a church database. Jews have relied on the work of Radkey, a former Mormon, since 1999, although Mormon church officials have publicly questioned her motives for reviewing the database.

On Tuesday she told The Associated Press she periodically checks the database for the Wiesenthal name to gauge whether the latest Mormon efforts to screen the process were working.

[Clark Addison]

Winner, winner chicken dinner.

http://news.yahoo.com/mormons-apolog...190124456.html

When people say "You can leave the Church, but you can never leave it alone", I think they are mostly wrong, but I can't blame them for thinking it, because there are folks like Radkey out there.

[UtahDan]

Probably a disgruntled exmo.

Isn't that a tautology?

[Indy Coug]

Isn't that a tautology?

I don't think so, but if we can make that a working assumption going forward, I would be fine with that.

[UtahDan]

I don't think so, but if we can make that a working assumption going forward, I would be fine with that.

So you're saying there people you are happy in the church but leave none the less?

[TripletDaddy]

Can someone explain why Jews care that Mormons baptize deceased Jews vicariously? Do Jews believe in vicarious temple work?

[Indy Coug]

So you're saying there people you are happy in the church but leave none the less?

I was referring more to their present mindset after having left the church at some point in the past. Maybe I'm naive, but I believe there might be some out there that have let the past go and are no longer disgruntled and have moved on to other things in life, rather than keeping their emotional axe to the grindstone, constantly on the outlook for more perceived wrongdoings.