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. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:51 PM, W David Samuelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Official line, back off on those with less than 110 years, without > written permission from closest relatives. > > speaker was very very very clear on this issue. > > David > > On 2/9/2012 4:24 PM, Steve Kelsey wrote: >> I disagree completely with this.  People completely identified and related >> to you should be submitted as soon as possible for temple ordinances to be >> completed provided of course, they meet the 110 year requirement.  Putting >> in the data in the vain hope that someone else will do the work later is not >> the way things should be done. >> Steve Kelsey > > 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

Just because you see a name is "reserved" does not necessarily mean that the person is "sitting on it doing nothing." It says reserved whether the person is doing it or the temple is doing it. If the temple is doing it, it can take sometimes a couple of years, especially for male endowments. You cannot tell from nfs which it is--person or temple unless you are the person who submitted the data. My understanding is, if the submitter dies and the ordinances are assigned to the temple---they will still get done by the temple whether the submitter is alive or not. Is that the case? I would think that those assigned for the submitter to do might be a problem but ones assigned to the temple should continue on until the temple has completed them all whether the submitter is alive or not. Of course, the waiting time can be improved by having more men go to the temple and do endowments. Steve Kelsey

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.