For decades the Church has microfilmed and otherwise copied millions of vital records around the globe, and the work for the dead, some of whom can be traced back to 1,200 A.D. or even prior to that, goes on.
Church members are charged with tracing their "family trees" back at least four generations, and many have gone much farther back into their family history than that.
The Church is the largest genealogical organization in the world and makes it resources available to individuals, LDS or not, in "family history" libraries located in local meeting houses and, of course, on a grander scale in Salt Lake City and elsewhere around the world. Records can be accessed online, on CDs, and on microfiche.
1 Timothy 1:3-4
3. As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer
4. nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work--which is by faith.
Nice try though.....
