« Reply #10 on: Friday 09 July 21 19:05 BST (UK) »
When I first started to get interested in researching my family history I happened to mention it to my neighbour in a conversation and she said she would help if I needed ... Oh yes please I did need!
She was/is LDS she gave me some LDS family sheets and showed me the basics, cautioned me about the IGI and told me to only ever use it as a clue to look at 'if' there was a real record or not (now the IGI is renamed as 'collections)' as they know people know/caught on the IGI is just names/dates/places, donated in batches of 200 by LDS as part of their religious 'service' and LDS who do that are thought of as 'better LDS' none of anything is checked and I 100% know that anyone can and do send in totally made up names/dates/places and it will be added to their LDS data for other people to search as 'records'...
At that time there were no burial records as the LDS don't beleive people die, they just go to a 'higher place' and if they are LDS then they go to an even 'higher heaven' than anyone else... where they eventually meet up and their life continues together, so any burials sent to them/collected by them the people were sealed into the LDS...so 'born again as LDS'...the fastest growing church in the world...yes because burials/sealing are also added to those numbers of 'new' LDS members.
Now I do remember the huge row with the Jewish community when LDS sealed everyone who was killed during the holocaust and eventually LDS apologised and unsealed them...now the LDS show burial records, maybe because of that media storm created with Jewish people being sealed/maybe not,
In answering my question about why nothing is checked and why 'it doesn't matter' if a wrong person is in the tree ( to me one mistake and EVERYTHING back from that person is wrong) I was told EVERYONE is related anyway so that is why it doesn't matter, it just means they might not be in order... the goal of the LDS is one tree with everyone in the world on it.
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