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From: "Janet Ballingham" <>
Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Company's Coming .....
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:33:25 -0600
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Sister Scott,
I am an associate director at ORFHC. I received a call from
Brother Russon about an email going out that would alert ALL
registered consultants in the Ogden Temple district that they
could now sign into and begin the training for nFS.

Personally I have been on the system for some time however I
received that email as well as many members of the staff on
Thursday. I have had others either call or email me that they
were also on the system.

Janet Ballingham
ORFHC Associate Director

-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of
Nancy Scott
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 7:08 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Company's Coming .....

What source documents that Utah will be onboard soon?

Thanks,

Nancy Scott
Cincinnati, Ohio

-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of
Jorge
Todeschini
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 06:10 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Company's Coming .....

I agree. nFS is absolutely the best thing that could have happened
to
involve families who have been in the Church for generations. It
was so
awkward and cumbersome to exchange information before -- export
and import
GEDCOMs, then merge & combine duplicates in your own database and
then
people just got lost -- that if they were really tech-savvy,
otherwise
they'd give up much earlier. Now people can take control and even
do some
research if they feel like something does not look accurate. Good
luck,
Utah, and welcome aboard.


From: Tom Kemp
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 1:55 AM
To:
Subject: [LDS-WC] Company's Coming .....


Company's coming - time to clean and straighten up nFS.
Seems like that is the task before us.

The UT areas will be coming on board soon and before you know it
the world
will be looking in and starting to use nFS.

For the members of your ward that feel that their "genealogy" is
done - have
them approach this is picking up and making sure that everything
is ship
shape before the guests arrive.

Once they get to work and start sprucing up the names on their
family tree -
and gaining experience examining the records on their
recent/immediate
relatives - combing and making sure that they are in good
order.... then
they'll be ready to tackle the next generation on back.

They;'ll feel comfortable combining the "obvious" ones .... and
feel
cautious about combining the names that are less obvious ....
"Mary ... born
1840 .... Ireland" ......

Then with everyone pitching in - combining and making sure the
records are
pulled together - the database will start to look pretty good.

No, don't encourage them to start with their ancestors in the
1700s ... have
them start with their parents and grandparents - so they can build
experience and confidence. Help them move further back - with a
family
history advisor at their elbow.

We can do this.
Company is coming - they'll be here before you know it.
Let's get everyone working on getting the house cleaned up.

My hunch is that by taking this approach we can give our ward
members a
"task" a challenge that they can handle with confidence ... so
that they
will then learn how to do genealogical research to fill in and
extend the
data when they see the blank lines and missing people.

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