An Irrelevant Question

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Thanks to Craig C. and others for correcting my inaccuracy.  I wouldn't want to seem 
irrationally hostile to them or anything.  My apparently wrong opinion came from a 
friend about a decade ago who told me he'd gone into the Mormon temple here in West 
L.A. to suss out their policy on access, and had been turned away summarily, on those 
grounds.  Maybe he didn't have his Moroni hat on or something.

john m
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>John Mascaro sez:
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>> They have genealogical data on literally millions of people, but they 
>> will share none of this information with anyone who isn't an LDS (LSD or not), not 
>even 
>> people looking to find lost parents, children, etc. 
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>Not in my experience ... My mother has been tracing her genealogy for 
>about 15 years now and had considerable help from the LDSs. And she's 
>a Roman Cattle Tick...
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>Craig Clark
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>"Living inside the system is like driving across
> the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
> on suicide."
>   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
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