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If your step-dad legally adopted you, then the ward membership clerk can update your record. This will update your membership record (if you were legally adopted), but as far as sealings go, it may be difficult to be sealed to your step father, if you were born in the covenant - meaning that your b...

While a Branch President may be an Elder (as is currently the case in my branch), for branches in a Stake, it may be a local Stake Pres'y decision to have their Branch Presidents be High Priests (as was formerly the case in my stake).

At least they were a member on the date they were endowed.

There was a case in my previous stake where a member was endowed without ever having a confirmation date recorded on their record. I don't know how it was resolved, though.

Not to fork the thread, but I think it's confusing to have MRN's associated with linked records. In other words, I think only those with membership records should have MRN's (or at least a number in a different format - readily recognizable as not a normal membership record). We had one case where a...

Since all concerned are deceased, the answer is "yes". Family History plays by different rules then for the living. In Family History, you generally seal everyone together. With the living, they have to make a choice. Maybe it's accurate in this particular case, but this strikes me as too...

This is an interesting thread. I never considered a "pecking order" for clerk vs. exec. sec. And I think with respect to their duties, there is really a grey area between what only an exec. sec. can do and what only a clerk can do - as defined by the bishop. Having said that, I do think it...

With many of the tools, it is interesting to sit in a ward / stake presidency meeting when a bishop/ stake president delegates, only to have him be told not all of us can do certain tasks he can, due to some surprising and "rigid" access rights. (Although for this report, it's not so surp...

Our branch just received the records for a new family. I was editing the preferred names for each of the members, but when I try to update the son's record to not show his first given name (he goes by his middle name) it won't let me (the save button is grayed out). I discovered that it requires his...

I'm familiar with the other categories, but where do donations to "Priesthood restoration site" go?

If it's truly all members for whom mailing info is needed, I would avoid using the online directory and get the info directly from MLS. For this, one would need to have the appropriate rights and the bishop's permission.