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Does anyone know of a Psak re the use of LDS (Salt Lake City) resources to research genealogy? No guesswork please, Referrences only! Thanks!!
How about going to YOUR rov and asking YOUR OWN shayla???? Sounds normal to me.
Why would you want to use or patronize AVODA ZORA anyway?
Im baffled that people prefer to ask anonymous people as opposed to asking a Rav their Shailos. We are not Rabbonim and we have no right to Pasken any Shailos for you, yes we can tell you something that we have a source for in the Mishna Berura…but any real shaila must be asked to a LOR. For those who don’t have one it is highly recommended to get one asap!
The Gribover Rebbe, R Halberstam (off 16th ave in Boro Park)does extensive work on genealogy
As always, ask a rav who is familiar with both you and the issue you’re asking about.
As does Rav Efraim Miskeitner of Bnei Brak. He has written extensively on the human genome and halachic implications involved (specifically gender selection)
The guy I ask my avoda zara shailos to said I couldn’t tour Salt Palace or even go to look at it. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/im-in-salt-lake-city
But he did let me see the Mayan temples in Belize, since they themselves don’t practice it anymore.
I’ve used ancestry dot com. I wonder if that might be run by LDS… but they have access to an incredible amount of info going back hundreds of years. U.S. birth, death, marriage records, city directories, census records, Social Security, military… and they are increasing their overseas records more and more.
try posting on genforum.genealogy.com/kurtz/all.html. You may also want to spell that name with an “e” or “i” & see if you get anywhere
LDS recorded many many of the Jewish census records in Europe going back hundreds of years unto microfiche.
The LDS Genealogy center was created in order to baptize people posthumously. They do this to all people of any religion all over the world. The major Jewish organizations objected to them about this and they said they would stop. However they continued to do this as far as I know.
Years ago Rav Chaim Pincus Scheinberg said it was forbidden to have anything to do with them. Currently I don’t know if he still holds this view as things might have changed.
This organization spends hundred od millions of dollars to translate and glean information from birth, death and marriage records all over the world. The only reason that they continue to do this is for their religious reasons.
I am a Genealogist and know that these records would be helpful in my research but don’t use them because I have not found any Rav who would approve of this.
Today with the internet there are so many ways to get this information that they can be avoided completely
Are the LDS records available via the internet?
popa,
Salt Palace is just a convention center, not a church. What is wrong with it?
Salt Palace is just a convention center, not a church. What is wrong with it?
Looks like I meant Salt Lake Temple.
I thought that was Salt Palace, but I suppose I thought wrong. Oh well, won’t be the last time. (although, it is the first time.)
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