The joy of genealogy and family history

Genealogy is one way people connect with the past and helps them relate to history, a worthy pursuit for any individual. I had absolutely no interest in history until I started to look up my family tree and discovered many of my ancesters participated, for better or worse, in many historical events.

trader0108, the nazis used a lot of resources to do their evil deeds. I do not know the answer to your questions though if I am reading between the lines correctly, it seems you are really asking did IBM conspire with the LDS to help the nazis kill jews. I doubt either would be true. I also would say that is is a meaningless pursuit. If you went after everyone or everything that the nazis used, you would be going after most of the world.

My family tree goes back to a Norman knight who lived in the 11th century.

I go back to the 1200s.

my family tree goes back 500 years

Great video...many things I experianced as well its a great hobby to have its connecting people around the world

These two book titles give documentation that the LDS genealogical records were used by the Nazi's in WWII to find out who were jewish in Europe: (1) "Mormonism in Germany; a history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Germany between 1840 and 1970", by Gilbert W. Scharffs , and (2)"The Nazi State and the New Religions" by Christine Elizabeth King. This documentation is implied from letters of praise to the LDS from the Nazi's, and recovered LDS jewish files stolen by Nazi's.

Exactly what is your point? As I said, the nazis used a lot of resources to kill jews and others.  If you do a good deed and some evil person twists that into murder than thanks you for your good deed, does that turn your good deed into evil making you evil? In effect you are implying that the LDS and IBM are guilty of assisting the nazis. VW and Mercedes were used by the nazis to kill jews. Does this mean that people who drive those vehicles today are guilty of helping the nazis?

I would like to point out that many German companies that deliberately helped to kill jews, owned by the same families today are selling their products to the United States. Does this mean that the people who own such products share in the guilt of murdering Jews?

Really, really stupid post from a really, really ignorant (in more ways than one) person.