Thursday, March 10, 2016
The Mormons and Genealogy
If you've ever wondered why and how the Church of LDS (the Mormons) came to accumulate all that genealogical data, here is an interesting article from the New Republic. The amount of information they hold is astounding, and we were unaware of how big a role the church played in the development of data storage.
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