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From: "Paul Hendrickseen" <>
Subject: Careful Re: [DNA] BYU Pedigree Chart
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 13:42:40 -0500


I was browsing the e-mails when I came across this one aboyut the Hahn
Family, which had some of their origins in Galicia, a place where many Jews
lived.

Careful when asking BYU for info or joining their study group.

Sometime ago, in their wild race to increase the numbers of Mormons in the
world, they even converted Jews who perished during the Holocaust...

In 1995, the Mormon Church was pressured by various Jewish groups to stop
its posthumous baptisms of Holocaust victims.
<http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/never.html>;

Look at this chart of their own:
Mormon Membership Projections*
(in millions)

Year High Estimate Low Estimate Actual Membership

1985 5,680 5,288 5,911
1990 6,957 6,029 7,761
1994 8,182 6,697 9,025
2000 10,436 7,838
2020 23,480 13,246
2040 52,830 22,387
2060 118,867 37,833
2080 267,452 63,939

This is quite an impressive growth. How can they achieve this goal?
Could this study at BYU, Sorensen buying into Ancestry,Relative Genetics
buying Genetree and all of the above being under the Mormon umbrella be part
of their game plan?

Just food for thought.....

Paul


>From: "Orin R. Wells" <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [DNA] BYU Pedigree Chart
>Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:21:04 -0800
>
>At 09:54 PM 2/26/02 -0500, The Hahn Family wrote:
> >I'm afraid I said it wrong. It is my husband's great-grandparents -- his
>father's mother's parents named Schmidt -- who are unknown at the moment.
>We can contact cousins in Germany but it will take time. We are also
>missing exact birthdates for four great-grandparents who lived in Galicia
>(Poland) but we have maiden names of females.<<
>
>You can probably get away with reasonable estimated birth dates. The
>important parts are knowing the surnames and locations.
>
>Please send me an private e-mail with exactly what you are missing and I
>will pass it by the BYU folks to see if you husband can participate.
>
>
>
>Orin R. Wells
>Wells Family Research Association
>P. O. Box 5427
>Kent, Washington 98064-5427
><>
>http://www.rootsweb.com/~wellsfam/wfrahome.html
>Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb
>
>
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>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
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