The Pinal County Genealogists will have their 10th annual workshop Jan. 26 at the LDS church, 1555 N. Colorado, Casa Grande.
The workshop includes more than 20 breakout sessions, including old favorites and new topics.
Advanced registration for the event is encouraged. A syllabus of the workshop is available online at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~azpcg. Advanced registration costs $20, while registration after Jan. 19 is $25. Early registration guarantees lunch. Registration begins at 8 a.m., with sessions beginning at 9 a.m. at the church.
Accuracy posted at 2:07 pm on Mon, Jan 7, 2013.
Through genealogy, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) and the Mormon Church trace or study the descent of persons or families.
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Being enthusiast and pursuing the avocation of genealogy, I have researched my family descendants who left Switzerland and settled in the American Colonies in 1735. And it’s interesting to find that both of my great grandfathers (from my father’s side and from my mother’s side) had moved west to different states in 1878.
tededitedit posted at 8:11 pm on Mon, Jan 7, 2013.
Researching family history is fascinating. I have a question for the LDS - since one of the motivations for them doing this is to then perform proxy baptisms for dead ancestors, how could you ever keep track of who has already been "taken care of"?
Accuracy posted at 5:35 pm on Tue, Jan 8, 2013.
tededitedit,
You seem to be familiar with the LDS concept of baptism for the dead.
Maybe a Mormon (who practices this religious rite) will answer your question about “keeping track” of the LDS Church's database of names – and how genealogist conduct search of the International Genealogical Index of the dead.
Mormons believe posthumous baptism by proxy. Performed in Mormon temples, baptism for the dead, vicarious baptism or proxy baptism is the religious practice of baptizing a living person on behalf of an individual who is dead; LDS members immersing themselves, so that the living person is acting as the deceased person's proxy.
This is not the practice of Christianity.