Locating a Membership ID for someone outside the ward

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historysteve
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Locating a Membership ID for someone outside the ward

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I have a member in the ward that is trying to get the member ID for his inactive father. I can locate the father in LCR as I have his name and DOB, but I don't want to move the father into the ward to get his member ID as he doesn't live here. Is there anyway to get the father's member ID with the information I have without moving him into the ward?
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Re: Locating a Membership ID for someone outside the ward

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I'm not sure what it's needed for, but you might want to consider calling support to accomplish that.
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Re: Locating a Membership ID for someone outside the ward

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Support will not give a member ID to anyone other than the member. Even close family members cannot get it. The only exception is a parent or guardian of a minor child. Even then support will tell you to contact the member's unit if that is possible. The best way to get the MRN for the member is to have the member contact their membership unit. If the member is unable to make the contact due to incapacity then discuss it with the member's unit bishop/branch president.
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Re: Locating a Membership ID for someone outside the ward

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jdlessley wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 11:56 am Support will not give a member ID to anyone other than the member.
Just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting that support would hand out the number, but that support would be able to accomplish what the end goal was.

Perhaps it's linking the child's record to the father.
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Re: Locating a Membership ID for someone outside the ward

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If you know their information you can get their membership record number if you add them as a person who did an ordinance for someone. However, you probably shouldn't do that if you're not actually adding them for an ordinance.

The reason I know this is because I recently added some ordinances performed for someone, without knowing the membership record numbers of those who performed the ordinances (who were not in my unit), and it now shows their membership record numbers. They're deceased, however; I don't know if that matters.
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Re: Locating a Membership ID for someone outside the ward

Post by munaish »

Oh, what do you mean by member ID? I thought you meant membership record number.

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