Karen, I just had a thought when I read this email. The Family Tree has a descendant function that works rather nicely. Could you go to the grandmother who was submitted by JSBerry, possibly a generation or two further back, and then follow down the descendancy lines until you see where the Berry family connects? I'm thinking that if you were able to find a Berry descendant, you could look at the current submitters in the Berry line. It's possible that someone from that branch of the family might know who JSBerry is, and they might be able to tell you if he/she is deceased or put you in touch with him/her. It's a thought, Jill Crandell -----Original Message----- From: Sahara346@aol.com [mailto:Sahara346@aol.com] Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:28 PM To: lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Reserving Mother's Name? This is something similar to my ward member's situation, except it's her grandmother, and we haven't been able to locate the person who cleared the grandmother's name for temple work. Whoever it is, probably is related to one of her husbands, but is NOT doing the work. It's been cleared for a year now, and nothing has been done, and we've tried several things--including writing to the Church Membership Office to try to identify JSBerry (whoever it is) to see if they'll release the name for Katherine to do her grandmother's work. Katherine will be going to get her own endowment done in a month and a half, and would love to seal her mother to her grandmother & grandfather--but that will have to be on hold until we can come up with another way around the situation. I know there was talk of having areas that are relatively close to a temple (US, Canada, maybe Britain) be able to keep a name cleared for only a couple years without progress being made on it and then opening it up again. I hope they do that. If JSBerry, whoever it is, has passed away, then Katherine's grandparents will sit in limbo for who knows how long--til the millenium? While she'd like to have her grandfather done as well, it would mean so much to her to do her grandmother's work. Whoever it is, they're not closely enough related to have been known to her growing up, or now. Karen