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    1. Re: [LDS-WC] Contributing research on unrelated people to NFS
    2. Jill N. Crandell
    3. Alan wrote: What information do you have about conditions for a future time when our submissions to nFS may be extracted? Hi Alan, I had a feeling when I wrote that that I might need to back it up! I just went looking in the Help Center to find the "answer" that I had been reading, and for the life of me, I can't find it tonight. All I can do is tell you the gist of what I read, and if someone else finds it, please give me the document number. I'm sorry I didn't mark it. I was searching about submissions to NFS of unrelated individuals and looking at information about performing ordinances. As you are all aware, we are not to submit names of unrelated persons for ordinance work. Whatever document I was reading in the Help Center that night said that we are not to submit unrelated persons for ordinance work. Related persons may find our work and submit it later, and the temples will also download information that was submitted but the ordinances were not requested. I found that very interesting. I wrote to Support to ask some questions, and I think I referenced the help document. Unfortunately, those questions do not go through our emails, and when Support answers, they don't have a copy of our original question included in the email. I wish they did. I could probably give you a more detailed response if they did. What I can tell you is that my question included the idea that the temples could extract my research and have the ordinances done, and the response confirmed that concept. I don't believe this is "future," I believe it's happening now--but I may be wrong. My reference to the future is that a temple needs to "find" my research before it will go through that process. As individuals, we are not to submit the unrelated names to do ourselves, and we are also not to submit them to the temple file. That would still tie our names to the submission. The only appropriate thing to do with unrelated names is to submit the research to NFS and "hope" that it gets found by someone with the right to do the work--a relative or the Church. Hope this helps, Jill Crandell

    05/12/2009 05:38:20