The topic of restricted areas and New FamilySearch has interested me for a while.   My friend has Greek heritage but those Greek ancestors lived in Turkey for a generation or more. We had to send in the submission to Salt Lake City on a diskette. This was a couple of years ago but this was required and is still the necessary procedure.   I read the articles about restricted areas in the Help Center a few weeks ago. The Church does not want to publish a list of the restricted areas. The ordinances are valid even though they are not "seen" in NFS.   Another thought came to mind, the grandfather's birthbplace of India may not be triggering the situation but instead it is the death place of Pakistan.   I would suggest that your friend telephone the NFS support and ask to be transferred to the restricted localities office.   We need to take these situations directly to NFS support and not spend a lot of time worrying and wondering.   The grandmother and her children who died young do not have Pakistan in their geographical places so they show up.   Support can help this new consultant rectify the situation and I would enjoy her to call them.   This is very exciting to read how the gospel is spreading to all parts of the world. I love to read these stories and know the members doing these ordinances are true pioneers in those localities.   Let us know what you discover about the situation.   Mary Scott Northville Ward Westland Michigan Stake   Detroit Michigan Temple   ________________________________ From: Nancy Scott <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:33 PM Subject: [LDS-WC] Finding/Linking Paternal Grandfather Am wondering if there are any ideas from the group about a paternal grandfather of a newly called consultant in my Ward. Her mother, who is the Contributor,  is able to view the record but we are not able to find the record or bring it in to her pedigree. She got the exact data from her mother including the PID for her paternal grandfather but when you put in the PID, it comes up with "Unknown" for the person with ordinances "Not Available". Her grandfather was born in India in 1898 and died in Pakistan in 1976 so one thought I had was that it could be a restricted area and therefore not show up.  The wife of the grandfather who was born in India shows up in nFS but she died in the US.  Children of the couple are with the grandmother who were born in India and died as infants can be viewed so she does not feel likely that the problem is related to a restricted area.  The grandfather does not show up with the grandmother and children even though they have been sealed according to her mother who is the Contributor. Guess that Pakistan only came into existence about 1947 but not sure that makes any difference. She certainly can call FamilySearch Support but I do not believe that she has yet. I am still wondering why we can't pull him into her line.  Guess that there is no such thing as a list of the restricted areas. Thanks for any thoughts if you have had experience with this sort of problem. Nancy Scott 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