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Re:Family Echo – Free online family tree maker by CobrastanJorji on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @06:11PM (#37838351)
I'm glad it exists, but I'm not super comfortable encouraging everybody in my extended family to give all of their information directly to the LDS Church, especially with their history of stuff like proxy baptisms of holocaust victims.

But on the other hand, I was just a minute ago wishing that this sort of service existed publicly as a Wikipedia-like free resource, which is a strict superset of the LDS Church having it, so maybe that's unfair.

Re:Family Echo – Free online family tree maker by alanwreath on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @07:35PM (#37839146)
The church did make an effort to prevent unwanted baptisms as noted here:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/what...

Re:Family Echo – Free online family tree maker by CobrastanJorji on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @07:53PM (#37839282)
I need to sign in to see it, which I probably won't do.

And I should also point out that the Church issued an apology for that particular incident, as well.