what does it mean when mormons say they broke a record indexing names?

[Susan]

Often mormons I know mention"indexing" on facebook

[Madsheet806]

LDS are big on genealogy.

[curvedcherry703]

They looked up names on their church's creepy list of families really fast. Why would a church have a list of families? Because it's a creepy cult, that's why, cupcake.

[Randy the Atheist]

Smith invented mormonism in an attempt to justify the existence of the indigenous population of the native American Indians. His deep exposure to their customs, traditions, lifehood and prehistoric isolation allowed him to see the fatal flaw of ancient monotheisms.

Were these Indians simply born in the wrong place at the wrong time? Is Jesus absolutely necessary for a man's salvation? Did Jesus even stop by to say hello to these people? Nagging questions such as these are addressed at the heart of the book of mormon and the reconciliations can be easily discerned when one reads the doctrine such as baptism for the dead.

Along with the book and its ritual for the dead, is the unusual enlistment of an actual team of archive specialists digging for family trees, historical names and birth records. Also unusual is the idea that the native Americans are somehow linked to the lost tribes of Israel. And therein lies the problem. Recent DNA analysis has proven that to be false - making mormonism the first religion to be falsified by science.

[Ammon]

Genealogy.

Maybe someday there will be an artificial intelligence computer program that can read old records but at the present time that is very difficult for machines to process. Face recognition software is easier.

People have all sorts of styles of writing. So therefor at the present time lacking sufficient artificial intelligence capability to do the task, Mormon volunteers are manually reading old records and inputting what is written into an on-line data base that will be accessible for later use.

Someday everyone in the World will be baptized fulfilling the faith and dream of John The Baptist. Accepting Baptism is a choice, that all need to have that done.

Jesus Christ was baptized, and he was perfectly moral.

Therefor everyone needs that ordinance done for them so that they can go to one of three Heavens unless they choose to go to Outer Darkness instead. Hopefully they won't choose Outer Darkness, that is no way to live for eternity, but some will.

However God gives everyone an opportunity to go to Heaven, and everyone someday will have the ordinance of Baptism done for them.

Additionally the records are needed for sealings too.

Anyone who keeps the commandments of Jesus Christ will go to the highest Heaven that there is, and they will be married for all eternal time, and they can accept that too, if that is what they want to do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1x6x68sKC0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq7f3XW7D...re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7MACCEZ3sc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sP1Aai5GVU

http://Mormon.org Chat.


God bless.

[Diane (PFLAG)]

Indexing in this instance refers to transferring names, dates, etc from old census records, birth records, death records, christening records etc. to a computer database... Sometimes these records are the hard copies, sometimes they are on microfilm <Similar to a film strip> sometimes on microfiche <a flat 5X7 sheet that works like a film strip>... The images are typically very small on the film.. With the corresponding machine one can view the information on the film, magnifying it, adjusting light levels to see different parts better etc.....

Indexing these records onto a computer database will make them easier to find, utilize, search etc.. Microfilm/fish is like using a dictionary in book form, using a database is like using a dictionary on the internet.. The internet is much faster, more accessible to more people simultaneously <with microfilm or fiche you need to have the film and the machine to view it, one person at a time being able to use the resource>.

Indexing names takes quite a bit of time... Breaking a record indexing refers to the number of names one indexed in a given amount of time without error <With the current indexing project several people index the same information, they are looking for each persons transfer on the information to be identical.. Within the database the different transfers are compared for accuracy of information with a message regarding any difference alerts a director of the project to check who's right so they are sure the information is error free..

[Fact Check]

Mormons do a lot of genealogical work, as described, by tranferring names from hand written records to computers.

They then use this data to baptize all the dead people as Mormons using stand-in proxies in their temples.

They claim they only baptize their own dead ancestors, but they've gotten caught doing Princess Di, Ann Frank, Hitler, all the US Presidents, Tiger Woods' late father, Obama's late atheist mother, and lists of Jews who died in the holocaust. None of whom ever wanted to be Mormons when they were alive and had a choice.

[c.]

Umm.... "indexing" isn't recorded. I think they have to confess "indexing" to their bishops. That must have been it. Every mormon bishop was busy all at once, a record.

Could have been a flash mob, mormon style.