It is now taking 18+ months to get male names through. Endowments are the worst..they wait up to a year between initiatory and endowment and then sometimes nearly that long for sealings. I believe we should do all the "legal" (meaning far enough back and not self-extraction projects) names we can. I do all the descendants of my direct ancestors as far down as I can do them. I submit them immediately to the temple file because we don't have enough temple goers to try to coordinate that. Better than waiting until the millenium when there will really be a backlog!!! I wish all those folks who reserve names would just do them or send them to the temple file..I have so many many names in my ancestry....even newer ones who get the baptisms done and then just sit some since 1999, some since 2009 and all years in between...hundreds of souls waiting for completion of their ordinances. I think we have a responsibility to proactively tell our patrons if they can't get the names done quickly, to submit them to the NFS temple file to be completed. Even if they have printed cards, we should assist them to send them on to the temple. I think a lot of people hold on to the cards feeling guilty that they aren't getting them done...and do nothing because they do not know what to do. Michele In a message dated 2/11/2012 10:11:14 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: OK. I have rechecked the current two publications on Family History - the "A Member's Guide..." and "To Turn the Hearts" Both speak of doing "all" work for our "ancestors" and our "kindred dead" Yes, we are talking about submitting only relatives - no self created extraction projects. There is no mention of limiting the flow of names. I have heard of not "reserving" more names than we can reasonably do ourselves through personal Temple attendance - but have never seen any instructions about not "submitting" names to the general Temple file (not reserved - simply entered in to nFS and submitted for Temple work for all Temples to pull from. It is my experience that female names are completed within six months (with the baptisms etc. being completed within 2 weeks) and that male names will take ten months. Most names are completed sooner than that. So, the need is there. Given the painfully low number of names waiting for female baptisms - it would seem like a real assist to the Church to document and submit as many names - particularly female names, as possible. That way the Temples will have more than enough names in reserve to meet the needs of a world-wide Church. “Once we have received them for ourselves [Ordinances] and for our families, we are obligated to provide these ordinances vicariously for our kindred dead, indeed for the whole human family” (Boyd K. Packer, in Conference Report, Apr. 1987, p. 27; or Ensign, May 1987, p. 24). On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Jerry Cowley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting how this conversation has morphed. I know people who work and > struggle for years to get any names for temple work. Others have names "pour > out of the computer" so to speak. Our circumstances are not always alike. > Two Rootsweb conference speakers reminded attendees that we should submit no > more names than we can do in a "reasonable amount of time, probably a few > months." If a researcher has dozens of temple-going family members or a > supportive ward, they can probably get more names done than one who doesn't > have that, but they cautioned us about having more than 200 names in the > temple file at a time because of the difficulty it gives the program. For > example, names may not print properly on an FOR. They urged us not to feel > guilty about not being able to do all the work we find all at once. > > I have experimented by putting a few family names into the program without > tapping them for temple work--or more than just baptism, etc.-- right away. > Nearly half have already been picked up and completed. Conversely, I have > also found names that were begun by others or through extraction that I've > been able to complete. I would rather have the names waiting in the program > than in my computer. It's one step closer for them. It's also an excellent > way of making contact with other researchers. And if the names wait until > the Millennium, the data is in place to support the effort when the time > comes. > > I have also assisted people whose health is precarious, who have no > immediate LDS family, with putting all their data into the program, rather > than leave it in their own computer files should they die. They are > attending the temple as often as their circumstances permit. > > We should not begin unauthorized extractions of lists of persons such as > Holocaust victims. 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