1.   Like a man trying to identify an ancestor, Rodriguez called on the Warwick Historical Society to find out more about his house.

2.   Mormons are charged with the task of identifying their ancestors.

3.   They squint at reams of papers brown with age, and scroll through reels of microfilm -- searching for names that will identify their ancestors.

4.   One Civil War document identifies one ancestor as a Pequot and as a Mohegan on different pages.

5.   The church encourages members to try to identify ancestors, so they can be baptized into the faith after death.

6.   The database was put together by the foundation and the Mormon Church, which encourages its members to identify ancestors and baptize them into the faith.