There was a thing in Christianity where if you died before you were babtised you went to hell.
That seemed too cruel so the the LDS came up with the idea that if you were related to the deceased and were going to babtise them anyway you could do it after they died and save them from an eternity in hell.
That quaint little practice metastasized into baptising any and everyone that they can prove kinship with. As a result, the LDS has the most awesome genealogy records on Earth.
They claim that they don’t do it, but they keep maintaining the databases.
There was a thing in Christianity where if you died before you were babtised you went to hell.
That seemed too cruel so the the LDS came up with the idea that if you were related to the deceased and were going to babtise them anyway you could do it after they died and save them from an eternity in hell.
That quaint little practice metastasized into baptising any and everyone that they can prove kinship with. As a result, the LDS has the most awesome genealogy records on Earth.
They claim that they don’t do it, but they keep maintaining the databases.
Familysearch is genealogy’s Wikipedia
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