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.

A couple more thoughts: One of the members of the Quorum of the Twelve once commented that he once thought that all the work had been done for his identifiable ancestors. However, in a conference talk, he stated that upon further checking, he discovered an additonal (I think the number was ) 3,000 more ordinances that needed to be done. ALSO ... Keep in mind what the prophet Joseph F Smith stated. Even IF .. and it's a big IF ... all of our ancestors work is done, and there is nothing more we can find to do, we are STILL responsible to LEARN about our ancestors lives. The Lord requires that he said. So, if you are in fact one of those "unfortunate" souls ( I say unfortunate or unlucky because if all your ancestors work is done and there is no more to do, you won't have or continue to have the satisfaction of performing those ordinances for them) then you should STUDY their lives and continue trying to find things out about their lives. I think this is a great principle because I think it will make our meeting with them on the other side all the more enjoyable if we have learned enough about them to feel that we could have known each other in life. > Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:28:57 -0600 > From: dsam52@sampubco.com > To: lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com > Subject: [LDS-WC] No names? No more work? > > 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

Actually it was Elder W. Grant Bangerter of the Presidency of the Seventy who had the experience with his family finding more names. He related the experience in his April 1982 General Conference address. Later, this talk by Elder Bangerter was mentioned in an article by George Durrant "Genealogy and Temple Work". Br. Durrant wrote: "I have heard some members say, “But our family names are all done.” It is all right to say such a thing as long as you realize you are only joking. Of this, Elder W. Grant Bangerter of the First Quorum of the Seventy, has said: “Your genealogy has not all been done. My own grandparents performed ‘all’ the temple work for their deceased relatives fifty-five years ago. Since that time our family has discovered sixteen thousand others.” (General Conference, April 1982.)" The family's discovery was actually 16,000 more names. Wow!! Mary Scott Northville Ward Westland Michigan Stake Detroit Michigan Temple