Are Mormon genealogical records being exploited by corporate and military researchers?
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Alatea
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The Church's genealogical records are made available free of charge on the internet. Anyone who wants to can go to http://www.familysearch.org/ to access them. You would have to ask the military and the various corporations if they actually do so and if so how they use them. I would also like to point out that the wording of this question reveals the paranoid nature of the poster. In the mind of the person who posted the question, we Latter-day Saints, corporations, and the military are obviously involved in some nefarious cabal aimed at exploiting poor innocent people of the world for some unknown reason. Nothing could be further from the truth, but that seems to be what this person thinks.
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The MOrmon church has collected records from all over the world for its own religious needs. However, these records are also of interest to many many non-Mormons interested in genealogy, so they are open to the public. What corporate or military researchers would want with them is a mystery, particularly as they are secondary sources, ie copied from originals, or even tertiary sources ,taken from family histories. Researchers for any official agency would go to the original sources, the registers and indexes of the particular country of origin of the persons they are researching. If you are worried about people misusing these records, then I am sorry to tell you that it has been going on for a long time. Criminals have assumed the identities of dead children, as frequently death indexes were not linked to birth ones in the past. That has been tightened, but family research is still an excuse that criminals can use to get hold of identities.
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