Week 67

May 13, 2018

Dear Family,

Thanks for all the effort you put forth to get family group sheets to me. David just sent me some information that he got from his Sister that answers the concern I had about getting different numbers. I am cutting and pasting it into this letter:
Attached is our Family Group Sheet.

 

I'm not sure what you are doing with these Family Group Sheets.  But you made a comment in your request that I think I know something about.

 

"Please enter all the information on your family group sheet for you and your married children so that we don't end up with different numbers in Family Search."

 

My sister Elna just started a Family History mission and she explained this to me.

 

Family Search is not designed for tracking the information of Living people.  You can enter living people and their information in.  But the information you enter is isolated to your family search only.  And Living People all have different Family Search Numbers in different peoples accounts.  For instance, I was in my sister's account and my parents have different Family Search numbers in her account then in mine.  Family Search knows they are the same person but in different accounts, they are given different numbers.

 

So like I said, I'm not sure what you're doing with all this data.  And you can enter living people into your account.  But if we all enter those living people they will NOT be united in Family Search and we will all have to track the data separately.  For this reason, Family Search encourages the tracking of living people in your own genealogy software on your own computer.

 

This was TOO long.  Sorry if it sounds like a lecture.  I just happened to run into this and have it explained to me by my sister.

 

That is very helpful information for me. I bought Roots Magic I think so when I get home I will try to enter everything you have sent me. That way we can include inlaws without any problem.  Elizabeth sent a portrait family record also and that would be fun to have from everyone.  We will continue work on this when I get home.

Another quiet week at the office.  I am still trying to get pictures labeled and mounted from the last Zone conferences. The women in my Ward are wonderful examples to me.  Sister Pollard is the Pocatello Interfaith leader. Friday our Public Affairs committee was invited to help with an Inter-Faith service project cleaning up the yard of the Aid for Friends house which is a home for the homeless here in Pocatello. We had Muslims, Protestants, Mormons all doing yard work together.  It was a fun morning and the yard looks beautiful and flowers were planted. Sister Pollard brought Italian soda stuff that we mixed sodas. She also had snacks for us.

I loved getting in on the Mella family call from Michael in Uruguay.  It was fun to see my great-grandchildren that are in Texas as well as Jimmy in Provo. I was thrilled to hear that Lori is expecting again.  I am a truly blessed woman.

Time for me to go to Sister Bailey’s house for dinner.  She has been such an inspiration to me.  She spearheaded that amazing Sub for Santa for the children at the Homeless shelter. She had her little girl bring me a rose on Valentines Day and she has invited me to have dinner with her family tonight.   I will miss these amazing women in my Ward.

Love you all,

Grammie