I am the director for the Yuba City Stake. This next year we are focusing our bulletin boards on the resources available in our center. We have a bulletin board in the hallway at the Stake Center & we have bulletin boards in the center. I've assigned different shifts to do the bulletin boards during the year, on a bi-monthly basis. I've also assigned which resource they will hi-lite during that two month period. Kathy Shipley Director Yuba City CA Stake Family History Center Sent from my iPhone. On Dec 28, 2011, at 2:33 AM, "Carly Charter" <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a suggestion: > As part of our regular housekeeping when working in new.FamilySearch, we > should check to make sure how many people have been assigned to us for > ordinance work. I recently learned this one the hard way. I didn't know > it, but thousands of names had been assigned to me. I still don't know how > it happened and the FamilySearch missionary who worked with me to get the > mistake corrected couldn't explain the mystery either. I knew I had not > lined up any of my ancestors for temple ordinance work recently, so I was > totally unaware of the problem until someone contacted me to ask if I'd > release his ancestor's name, because his family was planning a temple trip > and wanted to do the work. Of course, I immediately released that person. I > was shocked to discover all the thousands that had been assigned!!! The > weren't my relatives -- absolutely no one in my direct line. Some other > strange things happened around the same time. For instance, someone > baptized my aunt who is living and doesn't appreciate the fact that I'm > working on family history, because she's afraid I'll dig up secrets I > promised I'd never share secrets and had put safeguards into my personal > database so it would be impossible to accidentally print secrets. I am the > only member in my family and have been very careful not to offend anyone, > always checking with them about what I write. She would have a giant tizzy > fit if she knew that someone had baptized her as a Mormon.. :) Not to > worry -- I got it fixed -- but I learned that we need to just check out > what's going on in new.FamilySearch to make sure some giagantic error has > not been made. > Now,. I've got a question for you all: Do you have any examples of things > you've done a create more attractive Family History Centers to comple with > recent instruction from leaders to make our centers more like "portals to > the Temple"? > Carlyine Ritter > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jerry Cowley" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2011 8:08 PM > Subject: [LDS-WC] For those with large numbers of names > > >> Let's pool our thoughts and find suggestions for those who have large >> numbers of people waiting in their personal files for ordinance work. >> This >> is a unique blessing, but it carries another pressure: having found these >> folks, we open ourselves to their urgency. >> >> We are counseled to send no more through the T/O (temple ordinance) file >> than we can provide for in a month or so. We can 1) do the names >> ourselves >> or 2) submit them to the temple system. >> >> For suggestion 1) we can involve our family, our friends, and members of >> our >> ward family. The further we spread the cards, however, the more card >> tracking is involved. >> >> For suggestion 2) we know that ordinances done in larger batches, such as >> baptism, are accomplished more quickly than other, more individual >> ordinances. A T/O file can fill quickly. As has been suggested, we should >> be >> the first to support increased temple attendance. >> >> If those temple-assigned ordinances appear to be languishing, it pays to >> copy and paste the PID back into the "Search by Number" field. Sometimes >> the name simply needs to be combined with other files to take care of the >> situation. Or, if some long-ago friend has lost a card, we can reprint for >> ourselves or even unreserve it so others have the opportunity. Later, >> even >> if that friend finds a card and takes it through, the scanner accepts the >> card. They will not be embarrassed. >> >> There is a 3) way I'd like to hear feedback on. Suppose I had extra names >> and simply uploaded a family to nFS for extended family members to share; >> might that work without over-filling my T/O file? If not, they'll still be >> there when my T/O file is smaller. I do not own all these names. They have >> other progeny, even collateral progeny besides myself. Why not allow them >> the opportunity? I can continue the research, if that's where I'm >> effective, and still reach beyond my familiar circle to get the rest of >> the >> work accomplished. >> >> In the meantime, I can use a program created to coordinate with nFS to >> bring >> the names in my own file up to date. For example, I can use Family >> Insight >> to bring my T/O information up to date in PAF. Others may use RootsMagic, >> Legacy, Ancestral Quest, etc. to accomplish the same thing. Most programs >> also have a way to create a list of potential problems within a file. >> That's well worth checking carefully. >> >> Finally, perhaps we may leave a few well-documented names and some puzzles >> for our own progeny to do. My ancestors left me their work to build upon, >> particularly a beloved great-aunt and some distant cousins. I've been >> fortunate to have modern resources to solve a few riddles they left behind >> so the work can continue. I hope my own children, grandchildren, nieces >> and >> nephews will do the same. >> >> Jerry >> >> >> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >> signature >> database 6742 (20111225) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1416 / Virus Database: 2109/4106 - Release Date: 12/27/11 >> > > > 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