Over the years the church tracked temple ordinance dates in different kinds of systems. In order to automatically migrate in some data from the system used prior to 1970 they were not able to get the program to copy the dates. They thought it was better to have them there with partial information than not there at all. Their goal is to eventually get all of it there and correct but it is taking manual effort to set it straight. Alan Jones Mission Viejo, Calif. -----Original Message----- From: bbousha@comcast.net [mailto:bbousha@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 5:17 PM To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PAF-5] ordinance dates? I've been searching the IGI for missing ordinance dates on some of my family and have noticed an entry I don't understand. It is the entry "prior to1970" and is also sometimes written as <1970>. It seems to be used in lieu of the actual date. I guess my question is what happened in 1970 that was so important that it was granted an exception to the rules of entering dates? I searched carefully in the text book I used to learn genealogy from, but it was printed in the 50's and would be unlikely to have anything about the 1970's in it. Can anyone help? -- Byron O. Bousha bbousha@comcast.net (503)231-7190 ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Search http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PAF-5-USERS