Tech Forum

The only time I have really seen this is when a member is not marked as a member of the unit. Usually someone will move in and pay tithing for a week or two before the records are transferred over into the ward. In these instances, the member is marked as a member of another unit or not a member. Wh...

Calling Salt Lake about these family members, they will only provide the unit where the records reside and the contact information for the Bishop/Branch President of that unit. This question on the checklist has to do with wards that have other members of the family residing in the same unit. If thi...

On the screen where it says name of New Ward, you need to type in the name of the YSA Ward. If you aren't sure of the name, you can type the address in http://www.lds.org/maps and it will tell you the name of the attached YSA ward. Otherwise it will default to the conventional ward attached to that ...

For "ecclesiastical" purposes, you can call the administration office and they will let you know in which unit the records currently reside (available only to Bishops and Clerks). Generally they prefer it if you have a birth date too (can be found on an old ward directory).

The work around we have been doing on this right now is that when a new membership record is received in the ward, we automatically write on it the prior unit information from the Membership Record Update Report. Not as great as having it already on the record, but we are working with what we have.

I know CHQ used to ask the Stake Clerks to do it, but I think they automatically do it now once a member enters the field. Someone is free to correct me on this.

There was a posting about this at one time (or maybe it was a stake training I was in?). You can only have one mission listed, no matter how many missions a member may have served. However, they do have the option of having which mission is displayed. A clerk can change the display in MLS (though it...

I've been a clerk for the last 3 years and I'm noticing a new change when membership records are moved into our ward. In the place where the prior unit is listed on the record, they now print out saying United States MSR Office instead of the last actual unit. On t he Membership Record Update Report...

They will give this information to Ward/Stake clerks. Usually having a birthday or the MRN helps them a lot in the process.

On the limited-use book, that would be about right. The book itself has directions stating that it should be kept until all the recommends issued from it have expired. Since limited-use recommends are good for a year, it should be destroyed a year after the last recommend was issued.