Our records have been stored on computers for quite some time now. I don't know if there are still paper ones or not. There is a main office in Salt Lake that keeps track of it all, and from there it filters all across the world following the person to their specific ward and leaders.
I'm genuinely curious about your opinion of post mortem baptism. I'm not a religious man, but I find the concept distasteful. Is there a defense for this practice? Am I simply misinformed?