The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints invests heavily on genealogy research and encourages members of the church to participate in this work. Elder David B. Haight answers the question as to why the church invests millions of dollars and thousands of volunteer hours by saying "Because we love them [our ancestors]." This simple answer explains that genealogy is part of the core doctrine of the church and that the church performs service to those who cannot help themselves. This selfless project does not compete with other genealogy services, such as ancestry.com, rather the LDS project, FamilySearch, encourages users to use other online sources and any preserved historical documents to build the FamilySearch project. FamilySearch is comprised of two important components; truth and love.
My favorite part about Family Search is that you can now upload images, stories, and sources about your ancestors. No more fighting with my crazy cousins and I get to learn more than just names of my great grandparents!
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