Dead dunking in the 1940s
How our long dead Scot ancestors got to be Mormons
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(From a New Zealand newspaper)
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BY PERCY FLAGE
DISCOVERS MORMONS. By the light of an oil lamp, in the bedroom of a 500-years-old Scottish castle where Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell spent their honeymoon, a young dark-haired girl is working on one of Britain’s strangest jobs.
She is looking for Mormons.
Through 3500 volumes. of parochial Scottish registers, covering 1100 parishes, she is tracing the ancestors of hundreds of Americans so that they can be baptised into the Mormon faith.
It is a job which, apart from other expenses, costs the Genealogical Society of Utah £1 for every 10 days the girl searches —and she has been, searching for five years.
Miss Katherine Homer, whose mother and sister live at Stourbridge, Worcestershire, was appointed to this task by the Utah Genealogical Society six years ago.
Already she has traced the English and Scots ancestors of more than 1000 American Mormons. When each ancestor is found —many have been dead for- 300 years—the name and details are sent to Utah. And there this dead ancestor is automatically incorporated in the Mormon faith, even though he may have been an Anglican, or a member of the Church of Scotland.
(Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 9, 11 July 1945, Page 6)
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