The Mormon Church Is Building a Family Tree of the Entire Human Race

Re:The Mormon Church Is Building a Family Tree of the Entire... by kristopolous on Friday October 17, 2014 @04:02AM (#8469889)

I am really curious if they are going to try to bridge the biblical narrative to the historical record somehow. I imagine a lot of acrobatics would have to be done to tie the two together ... since um, you know ...

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Re:The Mormon Church Is Building a Family Tree of the Entire... by tfinniga on Friday October 17, 2014 @06:09AM (#8470179)

Yeah, all that's been done for a long time, way before the Mormons.

I think it's mostly been done by eager genealogists paid by rich noblemen and kings to trace their lineage back to Adam. If you can find your relationship to royalty, then you can usually find a path back to Adam.

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Re:The Mormon Church Is Building a Family Tree of the Entire... by joshdance on Friday October 17, 2014 @12:29PM (#8471752)

People try to bridge the narratives all the time. The Church doesn't try to, the just provide as many records as they can. I was exploring the FamilySearch.org site one day and kept going as far back as I could. I got to Adam which means that someone had linked everything back. A lot of time individuals will find themselves on a royal line which goes back pretty far, and then jump to the Bible somehow. And it seems like everything goes thru Charlemagne. :)

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Re:The Mormon Church Is Building a Family Tree of the Entire... by rmc on Friday October 17, 2014 @08:31AM (#8470591)

I doubt it'd be a problem. Human records don't go back that far. Even presuming a "earth is 6000 years old" case, I don't think there are many records from back then.

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