That makes sense. Thank you for sharing. Wish there was some official or public way they could get these FAQ answered for us rather than randomly through lists like this. Michele In a message dated 4/13/2009 10:45:56 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, Jenealogist66@msn.com writes: In regards to the recent discussion about a time limit for names, I attended a Family History Conference Saturday, March 7th in Bountiful. The keynote speaker was Don R Anderson, who is the head of the Family History Library and Family History support. I also took 2 other classes taught by him. In one of the classes, he was asked this very question, if the church would ever set a time limit when cards people hold would "expire" and become available for some one else to do. He answered that this had been discussed at length by the church, that they were aware of the problem, and that they knew that something had to be done to solve it. He said that the problem of what a reasonable time limit might be is very different in different areas of the world. On the Wasatch Front it might be a year or two, in the Philippines that if a member saved all his income that was not essential to sustain life, he could only expect to get to the temple every six years. He said that they ha! d pretty much decided to have a time limit and that it would be set by the temple involved according to the needs of the members in that district; but it would be a while before we hear more about it, as this is not the top priority right now; the rollout problems are the top priority. Doris Bateman ----- Original Message ----- From: W. David Samuelsen<mailto:dsam52@sampubco.com> To: lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com<mailto:lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Time limit JCBrooks@aol.com<mailto:JCBrooks@aol.com> wrote: Not sure how many of > the Brethren have actually used NFS recently...and especially since it > hasn't been rolled out in SLC!! Every one of the Brethren already has access, much like the consultants were called in earlier than the rollouts. > For instance, didn't we recently hear that the initiation of NFS came when > Pres. Hinckley heard about all the duplications from his HP Group Leader > and went to the office and said "Fix it?" Pres. Hinckley became aware of the problem going back to late 1980s when there was a huge rush to have ordinances done without checking the IGI. I can tell you there were hundreds of my ancestors getting theirs ordinances done twice or more in just that 10 year span from 1983 to 1995. But this time limit one seems to be generally overlooked. They didn't overlook this one. It was brought up during the beta testing when I asked about this problem, this was 1 year before the rollout to first 5 temple districts. > I still don't think it's wrong to suggest that there should be a time > limit. Heck, some of my names were baptized in 1996 and are still sitting. > I'm sure the name slips are long lost. There really should be a method for > the computer in the sky to find names that have been sitting 5-10 years and > move them to "ready" in NFS. The serious problem right now is the conversions of family names in the rolled in temple districts. My friend has more than 150 of them in Oakland Temple. Once converted from old system, they can not be purged if duplicates are found in nFS and merged. Just STUCK in in that limbo. I am looking at the reprinted cards from that "Reprint Family Ordinance Requests and Family Ordinance Cards" and am seeing a lot that dated way before 2004. The hope is that the engineers have a way to dislodge them once reported instead of dragging. This is different from the FamilySearch Extraction Program where there are literally thousands of them slowly meandering through different temples as the backlogs are caught up until the rollout is complete and the gates open for the families to retrieve the extracted entries earlier to finish. W. David Samuelsen Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM<mailto:LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB. COM> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message 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 **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000002)