Steps involved included, finding people:
(1) related to the girl by a definable relationship
(2) dead for at least a year
(3) who were missing one or more temple ordinances
(4) who were born over 110 years ago or for whom permission was granted by an immediate family member
Step 3 included checking for duplicate records and merging them. (This immediately eliminated some good prospects.)
One girl was ecstatic that she had found a missing ordinance that "the experts" in her family had missed! It was a sealing, so she will need to give the ordinance card to an adult who can serve as proxy, but she will have accomplished her goal of submitting an ordinance.
Three of the girls were from long-time LDS families, the others were second or third generation LDS. I was able to help two girls to find missing ordinances and print Family Ordinance Requests. A third girl was also able to print a FOR. This has to be the most FORs I have seen printed in our FHC during a single shift! A 4th FOR will be printed when permission is received from the girl's grandmother, a former FHC director. It was a hectic, but very rewarding evening.
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For the last two Thursday evenings I have been able to spend a few minutes of my shift at the Riverbend Family History Centre searching the newspaper archives at WorldVitalRecords.com
My experience with digitized newspapers has usually been negative. The OCR (optical character recognition) has been so poor that searching them has usually been more frustration than it is worth. I was happy to discover that the OCR quality at WorldVitalRecords.com was generally excellent. My search criteria were: Buchanan Neepawa
It is sure handy to have a unique place name like Neepawa to search!
Encourage your patrons to give it a try with their family lines. For people born in the last 100 years it can be one of the best resources, and it is free at the FHC.
Your process with the girls was exactly correct, especially having them look for duplicate records where temple work is already completed. That was probably as much time as you had with them.
ReplyDeleteBut I'd love to see those of us who work in FH centers start teaching youth the joys of attaching sources and finding people in records who are not already in Family Tree. Finding a missing family member, adding them, and then doing the work is positively addicting. I think they'd love it.