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    1. [LDS-WC] For Better or Worse
    2. Karen Tippets
    3. Because I do a lot of indexing for our local genealogy society in historic newspapers, and current ones for that matter of obits, anniversaries, etc., I have taken to having a side collection of people whose obit says they have "no known survivors." For those people, IF I can get more identifying information out of census, out of the obit itself, or other things easily available, I put them in new.familysearch.org. I don't reserve them to do the Temple work, they're not my family, and I rarely spend more than five or ten minutes on them because they aren't my family, I just feel for their situation. But they ARE somebody's family, and if their friends in Omaha do not know of family here, there may be somebody somewhere looking for them who will eventually find them in *new.familysearch* and get them for the Temple. Or maybe they'll pull them for Temple work in Salt Lake. The ones who say they are survived by nieces or nephews, or cousins, I don't bother with. They've got family out there, at least when I'm working on them. But I feel sorry for the ones that list no known survivors. And when I put the source info in, I make a note that the obit stated, "no known survivors." I know that Omaha isn't the only place that folks die with nobody knowing about family. So maybe if everybody made some kind of note of these folks when they show up, some of those who have no hope from descendants would have some home sometime in the relatively near future of getting their work done as well, ideally by a distant family member, since they had nobody close, certainly that knew where they went. The really sad ones are the unidentified children, and even the unidentified adults that are found dead. Karen -- Finding ancestors is like eating potato chips--you can't stop with just one!

    02/09/2012 10:00:42