Meaning of record numbers
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mkmurray
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Intersting, thank you for that info; I'm beginning to develop a theory, here it goes...MorettiDP wrote:In Brazil, or, in my stake, all members baptized before 2000 have a 010-####-#### number. After 2000 (I can't know the date) 000 and 001 members begin to appear.
Prior to MLS, the worldwide synchronization of membership records (most especially their numbering) was a difficult problem. So maybe in an effort to avoid any collisions, the Church assigned certain numbers for the first 3 digits of the record number for each Area or Country (I say perhaps by country because I was born in Salt Lake and my wife in Georgia and we both start with 000). Then after the release of MLS, synchronization became easier to coordinate, so they switched to a numbering system that was more unified worldwide?
To me, there seems to be enough evidence of some kind of a major switch in the paradigm at some determined date in the fairly recent past.
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Did this change around the release of MLS?LR422 wrote:The record numbers used to represent the different databases they were created in (different areas or countries). However, this is no longer the case. The record numbers are simply created in sequence, and the beginning set of numbers, or the "A" ending the record number have no significance.
