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Take A Name

One of my goals for this quarter is to find and take a name to the temple to do their temple ordinances. Over the past couple of years I have been a bit frustrated because it is getting harder to find people in my family tree who do not have their ordinances done. With so many people in my family working on it, I have found it difficult to find work that needs done. Hence my low goal of simply finding one person who needs ordinances done.

Yesterday I had the thought to try again, so I did a search my family tree using Take a Name . It took the app about most of the day and into the night to search through the 63,494 names in my family tree, but it returned 20 people's names who needed 63 ordinances done. This is fantastic!
We all understand I now need to go in and validate each one of these 20 people to make sure they are not duplicates. There is still much work to do, but I haven't had these kinds of results in quite a while. Most of the time I have seen a couple of names come back that are simple duplicates of people who have already had the work done.
So, I checked the first one and it was not a duplicate, but it was a result of a recently indexed census report in England.
Lessons learned:
  1. Keep indexing, you are helping someone else
  2. Don't give up just because you haven't had success in the past. New records are added all of the time.

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