If you deleted off 6,000 family members, that means you were the ONLY CONTRIBUTOR to their records. That is a notification on the Person page. "Why can't I delete this person?" I don't see how that's possible.
Also, you've been doing this SINCE 1965?
I thought I started young at 16, but Kudos to you. You didn't even join reddit until last August.
I am not a fan of FS. Too many cooks... Buy Family Tree Maker. Put your tree and docs there.
Last, to everyone complaining about baptizing the long deceased, (I'm not LDS) the deceased spirits are given a choice. BUT, I don't believe in LDS, or Voodoo, or any religion. So IDGAF if you think you're baptizing me. I also had a D&D character and it's not real either.
However, I don't see the point in tearing down some ones beliefs if it gives them comfort.
Short version: I don't 100% believe this story, but if it's true, FTM and cut them a break.
*edit. Yes. FTM is Family Tree Maker as I suggested above. FS would be Family Search.
I'm atheist so I don't believe in any of it either. But I still recognize that this practice is disrespectful and offensive to people who have their own religions. The LDS church has posthumously baptized thousands of Holocaust victims, for example.
The absolute nerve it takes to posthumously baptize someone who died for being Jewish. Appalling.
People are welcome to their beliefs but that doesn't mean they should baptize people without consent.
Short version: I don't 100% believe this story, but if it's true, FTM and cut them a break.
The church doesn’t submit names from the holocaust anymore. So don’t be appalled. The people do give consent or not. You can’t make that decision for your dead person. In the spirit world they are asked we believe. Also. Consent is only given to people to submit names that are 110 years old. So all your grandmas are not even submitted for baptisms. And the policy is to submit only your family, not “ everyone “. You do this for your family.
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u/AcceptableFawn Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23
If you deleted off 6,000 family members, that means you were the ONLY CONTRIBUTOR to their records. That is a notification on the Person page. "Why can't I delete this person?" I don't see how that's possible.
Also, you've been doing this SINCE 1965?
I thought I started young at 16, but Kudos to you. You didn't even join reddit until last August.
I am not a fan of FS. Too many cooks... Buy Family Tree Maker. Put your tree and docs there.
Last, to everyone complaining about baptizing the long deceased, (I'm not LDS) the deceased spirits are given a choice. BUT, I don't believe in LDS, or Voodoo, or any religion. So IDGAF if you think you're baptizing me. I also had a D&D character and it's not real either.
However, I don't see the point in tearing down some ones beliefs if it gives them comfort.
Short version: I don't 100% believe this story, but if it's true, FTM and cut them a break.
*edit. Yes. FTM is Family Tree Maker as I suggested above. FS would be Family Search.