One reason I see a need for time limits on family files for names is the number of new converts in my ward who are working on their family history. For the most part, they are coming in singly (either because they are single, once again single, and/or their children are adult and in different households, although a few convert members who've been in longer came in without their spouses.) None of us knows how long we've got here on earth before we graduate from the school of life and move forward to other responsibilities. If any of my flock of single new members die, what happens to the unfinished names that they've begun? (Some of them can not yet do the endowment work themselves because they haven't been in the Church long enough.) The unfinished work will hang indefinitely, if there is not a reasonable time limit before names can again be released to the general membership for other, perhaps more distant, relatives to find and finish. Karen **************Why pay full price? Check out this month's deals on the new AOL Shopping. (http://shopping.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntinstor00000001)