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From: "VESTA TURNER" <>
Subject: [LDS-WC-L] Re: Sealing children to parents
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:22:19 -0600


Many of these ordinances, such as children to parents sealings are done that way because of the name extraction program. When a microfilm is extracted, it is extracted as a single item. If you are extracting birth records, it will give the name of the birth and/or christening and the name of the parents, sometimes only the name of the father. These names are then sent to the temples for ordinance work and the sealing to parents is done. The only cross checking that is done, if it is available to do, is that death records are sometimes cross checked to see if the child died before the age of eight. But they are not cross checked for the parents marriage date and place. These records were sent to the temples for sealing to parents by the Family History Department. The temples needed names in order to have them there for patrons in the days when the members weren't doing enough family history. We do much better now and the names being extracted today are mainly used to !
create those wonderful indexes we all use. Sometimes they still are sent to temples, but not often as I understand it.

BUT, this is not the way we should do our family history. We should check multiple sources, find entire families if we can, with complete information and then do the work in the same order that it is done for those here on earth.

Sometimes, in Ancestral File and the OI, we will find endowment and sealing dates for people, but not baptism dates. This is probably because our families have not kept accurate records of baptism dates. It is probably fair to assume that if a person was endowed and sealed in the temple in their lifetime, that they were also baptized. But it is probably not okay to assume that because you have a baptism date, that the other ordinances have been performed. Some people were baptized as children, then became inactive, or married out of the church, etc. And some of these ordinances have been done because of the name extraction program and are not necessarily complete and it should not be assumed that they have been done.

Hope this helps, not confuses. Vesta in Orem Utah

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