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In reply to the discussion: If you think the NSA/CIA/FBI are Scary, Have you ever used Ancestry.com? [View all]Ruby the Liberal
(26,216 posts)Meaning the records are not accurate. If it is just a cursory/curiosity search, then probably no harm, but this relative does research for claims like Daughters of the Revolution and Mayflower decedents, so her work had to be unimpeachable.
No offense to the LDS, but when your goal is how many people you can identify and "proxy baptize", records can get sloppy. As our own family has a branch of LDS dating back to the mid 1800s, our own records are a complete mess according to her. She had tried to clean them up - but when she checks, people she knows for a fact are not in the family line keep being added back in.
This is a woman who travels the country for clients, digging into dusty physical records in historical society basements and doing pencil rubbings on gravestones. I trust her on this. That, and I know how insane the LDS 'wing' of my currently living family is about proxy baptizing and documenting "relatives" that are not even in our family line.