1048 Sunset Boulevard

I found Aunt Edith

January 29, 2009 | Items of Interest

A few months ago I just happened to check James Monroe Chapman and Nancy Ann Elizabeth Frances Jacobs and their children to make absolutely certain that I had finished all of the ordinance work for everybody….the two of them sealed together, and their children sealed with them.  Much to my SHOCK I couldn’t find my Aunt Edith’s records anywhere.  In NEWFAMILY.com I found that she had been sealed to her parents and to her husband, Clem (who she never divorced, even though they were separated for forty years), but there was no record of her baptism, confirmation, initiatory, or endowment ordinances.  I panicked, and I searched and searched.  Finally, in desperation, I called the Help Service provided by Newfamily.com in Salt Lake City.  I was immediately referred to someone (in California), who was qualified to help me with my problem.  The problem was, essentially, that I had a pink card with the ordinances blacked out, except for her sealing to her parents, and I had no possible way of getting her work done, unless I could get another pink card.

The service worker and I stayed on the phone for over an hour trying different ways to solve the problem.  All ofa sudden, he said,”Say, is it possible you sent her name in under somebody else’s name, other than your own?”

“Yes.  Maybe my husband.”  I called Luis in.  He went into NEWFAMILY.COM.  Found Aunt Edith’s records in his name.  I immediately reprinted a pink card….and I’m all set to do her ordinance work!!  A huge boulder was suddenly rolled off my shoulder.  (that rhymes) And dear Aunt Ed can join her father, mother, and brothers and sisters in the Spirit Paradise very, very soon.

The Spirit of Elijah is in this room when I sit down to do genealogy work.  Odd things occur.  For instance, a couple of weeks ago when I just suddenly, out of the blue, thought about my cousin, Izetti’s husband, Bob Knothe, and I wondered if he had died.  WHERE did that thought come from?  I’ve never had ANY thoughts about Bob Knothe.  So…I looked in the Social Security Death Index, and found a Robert Knothe that was born in 1925 in Pennsylvania, and died on February 12, 2008, in Pennsylvania.  That had to be my Bob.  I needed confirmation, so I asked Tom Holland in my Christmas card to them if Bob had died.  Finally, I called him a few nights ago.  He had called our cousin, Mary Nell Pittman Carter, in Philadelphia, and she confirmed that it was Bob that died.  So, I can do his work next month, and seal him to Izetti.  They were such good, good people, and they loved each other very much.   Tom also found out that Mary Nell’s husband, Jim, had died.  We didn’t know about that, either, but we don’t know much about our Philadelphia cousins.