Here is the guideline for submitting names (copied from the Help secton of nFS) Before you reserve ordinances for individuals who were born in the last 95 years, please get permission from the closest living relative. The closest living relatives are, in this order: spouse, then children, then parents, then siblings On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Paula Goodfellow <sootica@mac.com> wrote: > I thought some of you might be interested in this story that's hitting > the news tonight: > > http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705301616,00.html > > ABC news has reported on it, and there are also some pretty mean blog > posts about it. All the more reason to make sure we follow the rules > when submit names. Stanley Dunham's name does appear in the IGI, with > ordinances, but at newfamilysearch, it's not clear that the ordinances > were actually done. (Yes her name was Stanley. Born Kansas 1942 if you > want to look for her.) > > You can also see the names of the submitters at newfamilysearch. I > imagine they've been contacted already by the church, from the sound > of the Deseret News article. Paula > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Now is Family History Time. Tommorrow is another Family History Day.

Yes, so unless President Obama or his sister gave permission, this name shouldn't have been submitted. The entry's been removed from the IGI, so I imagine that permission had not been granted. Paula On May 7, 2009, at 11:08 AM, kinman kinman wrote: > Here is the guideline for submitting names (copied from the Help > secton of > nFS) > > Before you reserve ordinances for individuals who were born in the > last 95 > years, please get permission from the closest living relative. The > closest > living relatives are, in this order: spouse, then children, then > parents, > then siblings > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Paula Goodfellow <sootica@mac.com> > wrote: > >> I thought some of you might be interested in this story that's >> hitting >> the news tonight: >> >> http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705301616,00.html >> >> ABC news has reported on it, and there are also some pretty mean blog >> posts about it. All the more reason to make sure we follow the rules >> when submit names. Stanley Dunham's name does appear in the IGI, >> with >> ordinances, but at newfamilysearch, it's not clear that the >> ordinances >> were actually done. (Yes her name was Stanley. Born Kansas 1942 if >> you >> want to look for her.) >> >> You can also see the names of the submitters at newfamilysearch. I >> imagine they've been contacted already by the church, from the sound >> of the Deseret News article. Paula >> >> Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to >> LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > Now is Family History Time. > Tommorrow is another Family History Day. > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message