Family History
May 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Now that Luis has figured out how to do Templeworthy, we have both been encouraged to dig in to our Family history, and do the ordinance work for our kindred dead.
I am absolutely overwhelmed. I’m just going through now, and picking up those who fell through the cracks, and those who have died in recent years, and I can now proceed with their work. I find a lot of their names in the Social Security Index.
It has been a very slow, very constant effort of 42 years. Amazingly made easier and easier as the technology got so wonderful. When we first joined the church, it was a very difficult process. I would dig and dig for information, and send it to Salt Lake City. Then I would receive it back two years later saying that the work was in progress. Very, very slow stuff. But I have the old, weathered tracking records, with Mama Mac and Daddy Mac’s names thereon, and with their parents, and with the parents before them, etc.
It took years and years. Now it’s going faster and faster and faster. Now, we can actually do the work online. Amazing, yes?!
When I am resting in peace, Bill. You are the oldest, and will probably inherit all of these weathered files. Be ready to take over the task, as you continue to dig for Polhemuses, too.
Good Heavens! I just opened an old “Tracking Record Book” and found a whole bunch of stuff I’ve gotta’ go through! Looks like it’s correspondence from cousin Mike Holland around 2000 and it it addressed to Nancy(his sister) and Elaine, and it has to do with all of the folks buried at the old Chapman Cemetery at Pleasant Ridge, Alabama, and a lot of other stuff.
One Response to “Family History”
I wouldn’t call that a coincedence mom
By lainie on May 4, 2008