Re: What do people think of ancestry.com?

I recall that the Mormons (LDS) did have a religious basis for wanting to know 
as much as possible about their ancestors.  Whether or not one agrees with that 
reasoning, genealogists in general still owe a lot of thanks (or a debt of 
gratitude) to the Mormons for going to all their continuing efforts to further 
genealogy in general, such as by gathering large sets of records that anyone can 
research, and such as by creating and providing for free (I believe) relatively 
high-quality tools for the research, both the GEDCOM format and the Personal 
Ancestral File program. -- Darren Duncan

Lewis Kirk wrote:
> I have become queasy about the whole online genealogy thing. Ancestry would
> not let me go even after I ended my membership. I finally retired the email
> address they had for me. (I have a lot of email addresses just for that
> reason!). The gedcom format was developed by the LDS. Ancestry and just about
> all the other genealogy sites are based out of Utah and owned by Ancestry.
> 
> The LDS church has a peculiar habit of posthumously baptizing people. The
> gedcom records for my family that were on Ancestry.com had posthumously
> baptized a number of my ancestors. I know it's really put me off of using
> those services.
> 
> I really am not posting this to start a great debate or flame war or
> whatever. Do your own research and come up with your own conclusions if you
> care to. Wikipedia has a good article on the company and on posthumous
> baptism.