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From: "The Sweeney's" <>
Subject: Re: excessive charges
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 18:18:47 -0700


Lets get back to basics--

The Church of Latter Days Saints hold family genealogy as one of the key
stones of the faith. As such they allocate a large, no a very large amount
of energy ( read as $$$$$$$$$$$$) to this effort. No other religion that I
am aware of has this as such a point in their faith and as such make no
allowances for providing such information on a worldwide scale to so many
who are not members of the faith, pay so little to support it and demean
those that would charge for research time and facilities.

I use the Family History Center in my community, I use the efforts of many
others on the world wide web---shucks I even have been known to go to a
library and use those sources for the mere pittance of my taxes. Shame that
I can get the "church and state separatist" to allow my taxes to support
churches so that I might get my genealogy research at a cut rate......

I am now prepared to "burn" at the news group stake for my heretic views
(just keep it clean and don't get to personal).

Denis Grant <> wrote in message
news:00c301bedc50$7fd34840$...
> Thankfully we have the LDS these days as a yardstick against which to
> measure the behaviour of other churches in the matter of Genealogy. If it
> was the Catholic church that had produced the VRI we would be paying
through
> the nose for it. It is not through applying high-minded Christian virtues
> that this organization became one of the greatest treasure houses the
world
> has ever known. You seem to forget that the lot of them have been kept
> throughout their lifetime by those whose vital records are at issue and
> their descendants. Now they feel they have the right to sell these as
> chattels in the marketplace.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Anne Lamb <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 2:31 AM
> Subject: Re: excessive charges
>
>
> > From:
> > >Here is another place that is a ripoff.
> > >The Catholicarchdioses of Boston and they wanted $25
>
> > Now, just wait a minute. Let's think this through.
>

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