I have just signed up to this list again after several years of not having it after a computer crash - the fact that this list is still here testifies that the work is going forth and nothing will stop it. To add my 2 cents about partial names, no names, addresses, etc., I go back to my basic training which says in essence that if I was looking through the IGI for ancestors to see if their work had been done, there would be no way I could tell with Mrs. Blank born in USA. The information is so skimpy all too often, that one unintentionally duplicates the effort. I realize that the people we are doing the work for know if their work has been done once, twice or 152 times and as long as they have the work done, that's good. But, we are supposed to be helping patrons to do good research, find sources and document them and take a little longer to find more out about them. We often have sisters come in with hair flying every which way, a dazed, panicked look on their faces because one or two of their teens just now told them they needed names to take to the temple tomorrow morning - early! Now, you and I know that this sister means well, but she doesn't have the time necessary at that moment to do any research, so just so the kids have something to take to the temple to do baptisms for, this kind of skimpy information happens. There is also the Family Reunion coming up and everyone is to take one name of an ancestor to the temple on this reunion week. Not everyone does research, those that know a little are usually the ones that have to come up with the names and in a hurry because everyone forgot to get the names til the last minute. My personal favorite is when a relative does all of the researching and sends the info to another relative so their ward can help them do the temple work. Problem with this is that as a Consultant it is very dicey going if one trys to explain that the research is not satisfactory and the names do not appear to be correct. One card that caused some concern at the temple was a pink card, person listed was boy/surname, born abt 1900, in USA and parents weren't known. Family History is called Family History & not genealogy anymore, I thought, because we are making an effort to find out more about the ancestors that have gone on before us. It's the dash between the birth and death dates that hold all the answers and without some of those answers we aren't richer for the experience of finding out that cancer runs in that side of the family or that I'm an avid gardener because not only was my grandmother, but generations of that line were avid gardeners. In an episode of Ancestors while interviewing the prisoners at the Utah Prison about their work in extracting the Freedman Bank Records, one man found out that he wasn't the only one in his family who was a criminal - he found there were criminals in a couple of generations of ancestors as well. Somehow, that knowledge made him feel better. He found out about some of their dashes. So, the dilemma is this; do we let things slide with as little as possible just so the work gets done, or should we try to encourage and teach research methods so another relative would know the work had been done already and didn't duplicate. I know my answer, but that's just me and the way I think, it doesn't mean that it's the right way. Thank you for letting me voice another opinion on this topic. S Morgan