Anyone can also find the holes in their family trees and seek out more information. Mormon teens are now encouraged to do "indexing," which is seeking out those holes and trying to fill them, and eventually getting temple work done for these family members.
Frequently, wards will have a designated "Family History" person who is called and dedicated specifically to helping other ward members with their genealogical work. But if there isn't a specific calling, be sure that in many areas, there will already be a member who is an expert. Mormon missionaries often also try to make connections with non-members through offers to help with genealogy though if you aren't interested in learning about the church, they will still help you and you can use church resources for free.
As I consider the genealogical work of the Mormon church from a non-spiritual perspective, I think it still has great value. Family history is just another word for history, the history of those who lived so-called ordinary lives and did the working and living and loving and dying in the past that the world may never have noticed before. Family history is also an important way of making sure that people of all nationalities and races are remembered. The Mormon Church combined volunteer efforts of hundreds of thousands of hours to complete the Freedmen's Bureau Projec t of two million records of freed slaves.
The Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich , who is Mormon, has done a lot of work in uncovering the "ordinary" life of women in early America through their journals including The Midwife's Tale and this is in part because of Mormon emphasis on family history work that focuses us less on the so-called big events of history and more on the way that people have lived in the past.
I believe that regardless of your perspective on Mormon temple work, Mormon genealogical work is valuable and honorable and if you haven't done it before, I urge you to go look up your folks and see what you find out about them.
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It offers, free of charge, access to the church's huge collection of physical, microfilm, and digital ancestry records, along with volunteer and consulting help with the process of genealogical research.
The library also offers classes, workshops, programs, and even interactive activities for children. For those interested in visiting a satellite Family History Library, as of September , there are more than 5, Family History Centers in countries.
Most provide one-on-one help with genealogical search. Volunteers are members of the LDS Church and are described as individuals with a calling who are trained to become family history consultants. Their work, according to the Family Search website, is to "create inspiring experiences that bring joy to all people as they discover, gather, and connect their family on both sides of the veil.
In addition to the Family History Centers, interested individuals can visit FamilySearch affiliate libraries. These are libraries, archives, museums, and genealogical societies that work with LDS to house databases and limited documents.
The affiliate libraries may offer fewer resources than the Family History Centers. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints conducts research into genealogy in order to uncover the names of deceased relatives so that the Church can perform posthumous "proxy" baptisms on behalf of those individuals. These baptisms are conducted based on the belief that only those baptized in the LDS Church whether living or dead can enter the kingdom of heaven.
According to the Church's website, "For Latter-day Saints, genealogy is a way to save more souls and strengthen the eternal family unit The practice is rooted in the belief that certain sacred sacraments, such as baptism, are required to enter the kingdom of heaven and that a just God will give everyone who ever lived a fair opportunity to receive them If the children follow in their parents' footsteps, the family can follow the "straight and narrow" path to heaven "The Celestial Kingdom" and be together forever.
Generations of families can join together as well.
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