One of my lines yielded the next generation back ONLY after I was nearing completion of making sure that all the grandkids had been completed in the temple. (We're talking early 1800s here, so I wasn't stepping on the rights of others to do closely related relatives.) I had gathered the information on the siblings' spouses and children as I gathered the direct line data since most lived within a shouting distance of each other, but hadn't done temple work for them. (I feel that you have to search all the kids' family groups to know where the aged parents are going to end up when they're too old to live on their own...and sometimes you have to search all the grandkids to find the parents.) As I got close to getting all those other grandkids' work done other than my "direct line" grandchildren, I came across the clues I needed to identify the next earlier generation. Now I just do that as a matter of course. Karen In a message dated 4/4/2009 11:29:35 A.M. Central Daylight Time, dsam52@sampubco.com writes: How true, and these don't even look into those immediate 6-8 generationsto find missing ordinances to take care of. What's more, one of converts had his lines pretty much taken care of by distant cousins (New Mexico early Spanish, his direct ancestors are early settlers, including all founders of Albuquerque with exception of one monk were pretty much done) so he turned to the descendants of those ancestors to find them and get their work done. Keep on digging! David Samuelsen Sue Barnsley wrote: > I believe it is a misnomer to believe that long time members have little > work to do. I have been working with a number of members that are either 6 > or 8 generation LDS and there is plenty of work for both of them to do. One > of the members has had enough names for his immediate family and his > siblings and their families to do for the past 8 years. As a convert myself > I also have enough names to keep me busy. Unless someone in your family in > your lines has has done 4.2 million names back 20 generations, you have more > than enough to keep you busy. Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Worried about job security? Check out the 5 safest jobs in a recession. (http://jobs.aol.com/gallery/growing-job-industries?ncid=emlcntuscare00000003)