Thijs van Exel
Utah 02/13
This office & archives building is important in more than one respect. Here's an article in Dutch that describes how the LDS archives have been offering local archives (also in NL) to digitize all their birth, marriage and death certificates. However widely welcomed, this effort caused upheaval when it became clear that the LDS church uses these data to posthumously baptize these citizens so to increase their database of 'followers'...
www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/5091/Religie/article/detail/3252443/20...
Utah 02/13
This office & archives building is important in more than one respect. Here's an article in Dutch that describes how the LDS archives have been offering local archives (also in NL) to digitize all their birth, marriage and death certificates. However widely welcomed, this effort caused upheaval when it became clear that the LDS church uses these data to posthumously baptize these citizens so to increase their database of 'followers'...
www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/5091/Religie/article/detail/3252443/20...