General Chat

That makes for an interesting question Claire.
Who do they seal people to if a widower remarried?
Last week I found my great grandparents grave and was interested to see that William was buried with his 1st wife although his 2nd wife was still alive when he died.
Do the Mormons not recognise 2nd marriages after first spouse died.?

Gwyn

Quite worried now at the though of being "sealed" to my sister she hates me so will we be bashing each other for eternity. Maybe Mom & Dad will step in he he.

I didn't know the Morman church abducted our ancestors lol,...............I thought you could only be baptised once into Christianity.......this is the case with Church of England, Church of Ireland, Methodist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic (even if you religion hop).

I have all these church members in my tree...........At least that was the church in which they were baptised..........so now I find that some of them may be Mormans today (even though they're dead). Oh well, takes all sorts. Hope they are all at rest.

But in reasoning,,,its only a name they are using and the dead person will not be practing that faith or taking part in any religous cermonries,

It may not be a faith that our ancestors would have choosen,but I say again no one owns the dead,so they are not committing any legal offensive,,they may by their action be offending peoples feelings,but our ancestors are ours only in name,

Even when you die, the undertaker becomes your legal guardian for a short time,

It really isnt worth getting in a tizz or uptight over,,we know what faith they were bapt into whether they practised it is another matter so that in its self should not let this sealing stuff be a problem,our ancestors are down in for all eternity in the church records they were baptised in,so nothing will ever change that,

Someone in my Turner family from Lenham, Kent, became a Mormon and travelled to Utah in the 1800s. I have found it interesting reading about the Mormons' faith, as I do of other faiths, and denominations.

I had tremendous help a few years ago from someone on the rootsweb mailing list for Buckinghamshire, regarding my mother's paternal family, who is a 4th cousin of mine and also is a Mormon.
When first I realised that my parents would be baptised into the Church of Latter Day Saints, my immediate thought was (something like) "you can't do that! they are C of E!", and felt quite indignant on their behalf. However, once I had calmed down, I realised that it was quite within the rights of my cousin to do this, but I know that my Mum and Dad will always be C of E and nothing can change that ... :-)

Worth a look?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sDDHwV4n20&feature=related

I had contact from a distant relly in Canada, and shared my tree. I then found that all my family who had passed away were on the Morman site.

I had no idea she was going to do this, she did ask me if Cof E were Christian.

Quite a shock to see my mother on the Morman site.

hi

my aunt is a mormon and has been researching the tree for years now

does that mean I'll become an atheist mormon

cool!

They can baptise, dunk me under water, venerate me or do as they wish.......I am, and will always remain what I am.......you can call me whatever you like.......I know who I am, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.....

nudge