Church blocks whistle-blower?????s access to baptism data

[_Drifting]

Here is part of a statement from the newsroom part of LDS.org

Church leaders have asked the members who are submitting names for proxy baptisms for the deceased to:
1.Work only on their own family line.
2.Not submit names of celebrities.
3.Not submit names of unauthorized groups, such as Jewish Holocaust victims.

What impact will this have on the quantity of names and therfore the amount of activity in temples worldwide?

[_Buffalo]

Here is part of a statement from the newsroom part of LDS.org

Church leaders have asked the members who are submitting names for proxy baptisms for the deceased to:
1.Work only on their own family line.
2.Not submit names of celebrities.
3.Not submit names of unauthorized groups, such as Jewish Holocaust victims.

What impact will this have on the quantity of names and therfore the amount of activity in temples worldwide?

In order to keep the busy work going, they'll have to baptize/confirm/endow people 20 times instead of 10 times.

[_just me]

Here is part of a statement from the newsroom part of LDS.org

Church leaders have asked the members who are submitting names for proxy baptisms for the deceased to:
1.Work only on their own family line.
2.Not submit names of celebrities.
3.Not submit names of unauthorized groups, such as Jewish Holocaust victims.

What impact will this have on the quantity of names and therfore the amount of activity in temples worldwide?

While the church asks members to restrict the names they submit, the church itself does not follow this guideline. The name extraction program takes names from microfilmed records and dumps them into the temples. Those are the names people get when they don't bring their own.

I am not sure how much extraction the church is actually doing anymore, but in the past it has been millions of names a year. Names that are almost exclusively unrelated to LDS members.

Because of this practice, the church now has a much more difficult time getting permission to microfilm church records. I believe the Catholic church will no longer allow it.
I know of individual LDS researchers who report difficulty accessing records if there is the least suspicion that they are Mormon.

So, yeah, I think they just have to recycle names.

[_hatersinmyward]

My Name is still in the Mormon Family History Library after I had my name taken off their Records.


If Christian Clergy were to Gather list of their dead and submit that list to the records department, The LDS would have to respect their wishes. Unless a Mormon were to Produce some sort of will that stated they were the trustee of the Deceased's Estate as opposed to a Christian Being the trustee.