Genealogy Chat

In addition to the above, my dad found 'family sheets' for one of our ancestors (I don't believe the ancestor was with the LDS church, but certainly some of his descendants were). I believe it was at least a two-step process to seal the family -- records had to be checked and double-checked. Unfortunately in my case, this was back in the 1950's, so there is no way I can contact the person who gathered the information.

The LDS church does baptisms for the dead by proxy. People submit names of their relations that have died and they baptize. They believe in life after death and that you can be with your family again and I think that this is what the 'sealing' is all about. They do these in the temples and only certain people are allowed into them!

Isobel Sealings for the Dead, is part of the Mormon Faith. It is a ceremony whereby dead people are 'sealed' to relatives who were living at the time. The best way I can explain this - the lady at my LDS Family History centre is a practising Mormon. Her son died tragically at age 18, and she had a Sealing of the Dead ceremony. This links her son to her for all eternity. Sealings for the Dead are usually private records and I THINK, but don't know, that you would have to be a member of the Mormon faith to see them. Some Sealings are done many many years after a person has died - I was very confused to see a relative of mine who had died in 1793, being Sealed in 1921! But you could ring your local LDS centre (in the phone book/on the LDS site) and ask them to explain. OC

I am looking at Thomas Hodge 1805 Fenstanton on Family Search website, if i click on the file number at the bottom it gives me a fiche number but if i click on the blue writing it goes on about sealings for the dead, does anyone know what this means or if they look at it do they understand? Thanks