>My understanding is the the reason LDS are so interested in genealogy is
>that they believe that only those who are baptised as LDS will enter
>heaven. So if you want your ancestors who lived before they had a
>chance to become LDS to go to heaven, you can do the research and, in
>effect, arrange for them to be baptised despite the fact that they are
>long dead. This became a hot topic a few years ago when some Jewish
>folks found out that their ancestors and victims of the holocaust had
>been baptised without their knowledge. Considering the history of
>forcible conversion of Jews through history, this was a rather touchy >issue. >
>Here's more info,
>formatting link>MargW
That jibes with what I understood, personally I have a problem with that mindset. I put it in the same box as the Archbishop of Canterbury apologizing for the Crusades. Show me one Crusader, how about Richard the Lion Heart, who would extend an apology and mean it??