The church and the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants announced the agreement Wednesday in a joint statement.
Under the resolution, the church agreed to eliminate the names of Holocaust victims from its genealogical database using a new computer system, while the Jewish group acknowledged that the church had good intentions when it practiced 'baptism for the dead' in order to allow the deceased the option to join the Church of the Latter-day Saints -- an ongoing practice since 1840."
