From: anne@privacy.net   
      
   Tickettyboo wrote:   
   > On 2018-04-17 09:59:01 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) said:   
   >   
   >> [Incidentally: is there any - other than the moral aspect that otherwise   
   you're taking without giving -   
   >> pressure on participants to join LDS, or even to have any particular   
   religion? I must admit that the fear of   
   >> that _is_ one of the reasons I'm nervous about FamilySearch, though I   
   freely concede that I have never   
   >> experienced any such pressure, either when using the website or - some   
   decades ago - visiting a Family   
   >> Research Centre.]   
   >   
   > I have used LDS Family  History Centres in a fair few countries over the   
   years. I am not a church member. Each   
   > time I have to go to a new one I ring them, politely ask if I may come and   
   use their facilities and say I am   
   > not a church member. I am always met with 'We'd be pleased to see you' Not   
   once, in all the years I have   
   > visited have I ever come across any pressure, any mention of religion., but   
   I HAVE come across lots of lovely   
   > people who are really helpful and have made me feel very welcome.   
   >   
   > I have done some ( but not a lot) of what they call indexing -   
   transcriptions for their databases, as I feel I   
   > should payback a little. Though my view , which seems to make sense to them   
   when I have discussed it,  is that   
   > I'd rather do transcribing for projects like FreeREG (which I also have   
   done) as they actively encourage   
   > transcribers to transcribe the entire record - notes and all, not just the   
   names and dates which the LDS seem   
   > to prefer.   
   >   
   Same here - I've used LDS Family History Centres in a few different countries   
   and the response has always been   
   the same - hlepful, friendly people with not a hint of proselytising.   
      
   I've also done quite a bit of indexing of South African records for them,   
   trying to trace my aberrant maternal   
   grandmother and have received enormous online help accessing raw records not   
   immediately findable through   
   their clunky search process.   
      
   --   
   Anne Chambers   
   South Australia   
      
   anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com   
      
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