Mormons posthumously baptized President Obama's mother as a Mormom

[dragonlady]

43. And they share it

They have spent a lot of effort and money to collect all their records and share them with any genealogist who needs them. For many years this involved ordering microfilms to be viewed at an LDS church (for a fee that basically covered shipping from and back to Salt Lake City). I never heard a word of proselytizing while using films at their church, and the volunteers in charge were helpful and friendly. Recently they have been indexing and digitizing the collection and putting it online as a free research site (unlike Ancestry and other sites that charge upwards of $100 per year). I do appreciate how much the LDS materials are furthering my genealogy research, while at the same time being dismayed at their retroactive baptisms.