Listen...for the purposes of why Mormons do this...
...they could NEVER build enough such centers...
...NOR ever uncover the BILLIONS of non-existent records that don't exist about people who'd lived on the face of the earth...
Their claims by their "prophets" just don't match realistic apprisals. 'Tis all a fantasy of the mind:
In chapter 34 of the recently published Teachings of the Presidents: Joseph F. Smith, Smith said:
Not a soul that has ever lived and died from off the face of this earth shall escape a chance to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. If they receive it and obey it, the ordinances of the gospel will be performed for and in their behalf, by their kindred, or their posterity in some generation of time after them, so that every law and every requirement of the gospel of Jesus Christ shall be carried out, and the promises and requirements fulfilled for the salvation of the living and also for the salvation of the dead. (Original citation: “Latter-day Saints Follow Teachings of the Savior,” Scrap Book of Mormon Literature, 2 vols. (n.d.), 2:561–62.)
That’s why the mainstream Lds curricula book, Gospel Principles, “Jesus has provided for EVERYONE to hear the gospel, whether on earth of after death.” Gospel Principles, 1997, p. 104
Sorry, there's no markings of the dead on stones to be found for even a small contingent of the dead.
BILLIONS died pre-Gutenberg.
BILLIONS still (have) died in more recent centuries either illiterate areas or where there's no centralized record-keeping of their lives.
Besides, even for ALL they uncover, there's not enough temple Mormons to run their baptism-for-the-dead industry...even if they ran their proxies through 24/7!
Now. The Mormons tout how "fair" it is for ALL to supposedly hear their gospel version. Yet how "fair" is it for all these BILLIONS to NEVER either be listed @ a family history center OR be dead-dunked in less than 150 Mormon temples?
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(1807–1857)Orson Pratt
(1811–1881)Sarah M. Pratt
(1817–1888)William Pratt
(1802–1870)Nelson Pratt
(1815–1889)Emeline Billingsley Helaman Pratt
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(1843–1904)Catharine Cottam Rey Pratt
(1878-1931)Anna Amelia Pratt
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(1871–1955)George S. Romney
(1873–1935)Vernon Romney
(1896–1976)Lenore LaFount
(1908–1998)George W. Romney
(1907–1995)Marion G. Romney
(1896–1976)Vernon B. Romney
(born 1924)Ann Davies
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