Something slipped through the cracks and it smells fishy. We go through some of the quality control mechanisms used in Mormon genealogy research at the ward level. The Church collects and digitizes a lot of information and history, what do they do with it? We tie a few stories together to figure out what the church is planning with a recent $2 million investment into the International African American Museum in South Carolina. After that we bring on Weird Alma to talk about the recent Masonry and Mormonism essay published by the Church. Then we talk about the uptick in EV sales in America and what it might mean.

Headlines:

Temple and Family History Consultantshttps://www.lds.org/family-history/temple-family-history-consultant?lang=eng

Family Search blog posthttps://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/elder-dale-g-renlund-2019-temple-and-family-history-leadership-instruction/

Church donates $2mn to IAAMhttps://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/church-donation-2-million-international-african-american-museum-center-family-history

Church sells data to Ancestry.comhttps://www.deseretnews.com/article/865585877/LDS-FamilySearch--Ancestrycom--1-billion-new-historical-records-online.html?pg=all

Church data collection timelinehttps://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/3fi88e/exploitation_and_spin_how_the_lds_church_is/

Check out Weird Alma here:

http://www.WeirdAlma.com

Light of Gazelem

https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/010319-us-ev-sales-jump-725-on-year-in-2018-top-354000

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