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hp-pcd!harold    Nov  7 10:46:00 1983

Regarding Mormons and Roots--

It is true that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
(the correct name for the "Mormon" church) is doing a **LOT**
of work in genealogical research.  This work includes the micro-
filming of city/county/parish/etc records wherever possible.  It 
also includes the "name extraction" program- a major effort to
incorporate computer technology into the genealogical research
process.  Because of the nuances of genealogy (ie name spelling
changes, mis-spellings, use of incomplete names in some records,
incompleteness of records, etc), it is *VERY* difficult to have
"automatic" cumputer research of genealogy.  The name extraction
program of the Church is the best they've been able to come up with
to date and does incorporate the unprecedented database that the 
Church has collected.

Access to the entire database and the name extraction program is 
available through every "Stake" (ie parish) of the Church.  Call
any Bishop or Branch President listed in your phone book and they
can tell you all the info for their local area-- address, open hours,
who the local person responsible for the name extraction program is.

For you hard-core genealogy buffs, the Church sponsors an annual 
"World Genealogical Conference".  It is held at the Brigham Young
University in Provo, Utah.  More info can be obtained direct from 
the BYU people.

Hope this has been helpful.  If you have other questions, please feel 
free to ask.  I'm *NOT* an expert, but I belong to a Church that *IS*.

Harold B Noyes
!hplabs!hp-pcd
Corvallis, Oregon