It may be so. However, I have been contacted twice by new converts about their family history. "Jorge, I see you got temple work done for my great-grandfather. What else do you have on my family?" And my answer was, "well, his wife was a cousin to my great-grandfather, but I don't have anything else on your family." That was years ago right after I joined the church and today I don't think I would do collateral work like that. (By the way, my great-grandfather was born in 1864 and her cousins and their spouses were all born around the same time so they totally meet the 110-year rule -- almost the 150-year rule if there was one.) So, even if you are 'the only one' researching those people, that doesn't mean nobody else will, eventually. Tough choice. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Alice Allen" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 4:20 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] temple ordinances > I'm guilty of having put names in the system in hopes someone more closely > related than I am would find them and do their work. I should have > realized > that since I seem to be the only one researching these people, there's > probably not a line-up of people waiting to do their Temple work, either. > > Guess what I'll be dong later today. > > Alice Allen > Ward Family History Consultant > Oakhurst Ward, Vancouver WA Stake > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Kemp > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 6:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] temple ordinances > > We are in strong agreement with you and the Brethren on the 110 year rule > David. > > I thought this thread was about preparing names of relatives but > simply leaving them in the "ready" category in nFS as nuggets for > future relatives to discover and do the work. > > Over the years I have heard a number of people make that suggestion - > mine is to do all of the work for my relatives (110 years and back) > not leaving any behind. They are urgently waiting and we've been given > the tools and resources to get them documented. So on to the victory > and see the work through. > > I have the feeling that if I was retired and did nothing but submit > the names of my relatives for the next 10 years - I would never run > out of names - they are pouring out of the computer. > > There will be ample names for any and all of our members to work on. > But - meanwhile I don't want to keep them waiting. > > Leave no child behind. > > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

It's all good. Now - I wonder if my 2nd great-grandfather - having had his work done by distant cousins - empowered him to work there on my behalf and was the reason that only a few years after his work was done I came in contact with the Church ... and the rest is history. How it all so closely works together for good. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Jorge Todeschini <[email protected]> wrote: > It may be so. > > However, I have been contacted twice by new converts about their family > history. "Jorge, I see you got temple work done for my great-grandfather. > What else do you have on my family?" And my answer was, "well, his wife was > a cousin to my great-grandfather, but I don't have anything else on your > family." That was years ago right after I joined the church and today I > don't think I would do collateral work like that. (By the way, my > great-grandfather was born in 1864 and her cousins and their spouses were > all born around the same time so they totally meet the 110-year rule -- > almost the 150-year rule if there was one.) > > So, even if you are 'the only one' researching those people, that doesn't > mean nobody else will, eventually. Tough choice. > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Alice Allen" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 4:20 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] temple ordinances > >> I'm guilty of having put names in the system in hopes someone more closely >> related than I am would find them and do their work.  I should have >> realized >> that since I seem to be the only one researching these people, there's >> probably not a line-up of people waiting to do their Temple work, either. >> >> Guess what I'll be dong later today. >> >> Alice Allen >> Ward Family History Consultant >> Oakhurst Ward, Vancouver WA Stake >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Kemp >> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 6:00 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] temple ordinances >> >> We are in strong agreement with you and the Brethren on the 110 year rule >> David. >> >> I thought this thread was about preparing names of relatives but >> simply leaving them in the "ready" category in nFS  as nuggets for >> future relatives to discover and do the work. >> >> Over the years I have heard a number of people make that suggestion - >> mine is to do all of the work for my relatives (110 years and back) >> not leaving any behind. They are urgently waiting and we've been given >> the tools and resources to get them documented. So on to the victory >> and see the work through. >> >> I have the feeling that if I was retired and did nothing but submit >> the names of my relatives for the next 10 years - I would never run >> out of names - they are pouring out of the computer. >> >> There will be ample names for any and all of our members to work on. >> But - meanwhile I don't want to keep them waiting. >> >> Leave no child behind. >> >> >> >> Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to >> [email protected] >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message