Category: Archival Power

• The Mormon Genealogies

  The Mormon Genealogies theory held that the vast family-history and temple-record systems of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were not only for proxy ordinances and ancestral connection, but for assembling a hidden registry of humanity that could be used after social collapse, divine judgment, or global war. In its strongest form, the theory claimed that the Church was building a post-apocalyptic census of the dead and the living, an index that would determine identity, legitimacy, inheritance, or spiritual rank in a future reordered world. The theory drew on a real and unusually large historical project: Latter-day Saints have long gathered names, records, pedigrees, and family relationships for temple and family-history work. The conspiracy version reclassified that sacred archival labor as preparation for civilizational administration.