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Originally posted by Moliere
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They got the youth involved somehow. It went through our stake a couple years ago, and now it's died down. There was a contest to see which ward could index the most names. It was promoted at every youth meeting. Youth would bear their testimonies about the importance of indexing and challenge each other to index more. I haven't heard anything on it for the last year or so. -
Indexing is totally new to me. We haven't seen or heard anything about it here, which seems kind of odd.“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
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I'll admit that a 5th Sunday lesson on indexing is better than a lesson on porn."Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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It has apparently hit our stake now. The stake president talked about it last week in ward conference. The high councilman talked about it yesterday in sacrament. The stake goal is $1,000,000+ names for the year. It will be interesting to see if the contagion takes hold on the ward level...Originally posted by jay santos View Post"Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism" - Joseph Smith Jr.Comment
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Wonder if I have any family lines in the $1,000,000 rangeOriginally posted by Sullyute View Post
The contagion has come and gone in my area. No doubt it will reoccur. I hope I'm sufficiently inoculated. I was the first time although I still had to take the Genealogy SS class as my spouse was not immune.“Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory.”
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Originally posted by Paperback Writer View PostWonder if I have any family lines in the $1,000,000 range
I think that I have done that a couple of times on CUF. There must be something in my subconscious that makes me use the dollar symbol when I am talking about church related numbers. 
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Indexing still going strong here. I just received a detailed report for the stake that lists the number of names indexed by member."Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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For the first time in my experience, "indexing" was mentioned two weeks ago by the HCman in his sac mtg talk. He was trying to get the YM/YW excited about family history work and mentioned indexing as something that could be done "online."Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!
For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."
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I guess it beats making license plates...
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/articl...ond-themselvesService Helps Inmates Look Beyond Themselves
David joined a team at the Kane County, Utah, jail that he found surprisingly comforting — the family history indexing team. “Indexing brought the inmates together in teamwork — like a sporting event — and it was really good to see in a setting like this,” the prisoner explained. “Indexing allows us to have a positive interaction with one another.”
The process of indexing uses FamilySearch software to view images of old records and requires volunteers to enter a variety of records — birth, marriage, death, census, ship logs and other sources — into the system. The data is then compiled by FamilySearch (an organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) into a searchable index, matched with corresponding images, published on FamilySearch.org and is then available for public use.
“Because of indexing, more people are discovering their ancestors more quickly than at any time in history,” said Mike Judson, who manages the indexing volunteer efforts for FamilySearch. “This ease of discovery is helping thousands of people every day to better understand who they are and where they came from.”
The Kane County indexers are among nearly 2,300 inmates in Utah, Idaho and Arizona who voluntarily participate in the family history indexing program sponsored by the Church. At the Utah State Corrections facility the indexing center runs three shifts a day, seven days a week, and supports that time with donated computer equipment and volunteer advisors from local units of the Church.
[...]"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
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My parents served as missionaries at the Utah State Prison, working in the family history center there. Many of the inmates really enjoy the work.Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post"It's devastating, because we lost to a team that's not even in the Pac-12. To lose to Utah State is horrible." - John White IVComment
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The church is even emasculating prisoners these days.“Indexing brought the inmates together in teamwork — like a sporting event — and it was really good to see in a setting like this,” the prisoner explained. “Indexing allows us to have a positive interaction with one another.”
I'm like LeBron James.
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I'm still not a fan of indexing. I guess it stems from my disinterest in genealogy."Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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Same. But I think it stems from my disinterest in doing boring stuff.Originally posted by Moliere View PostI'm like LeBron James.
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Yeah, same here. But I guess I would be a fan if I was in prison and had nothing better to do.Originally posted by Moliere View Post"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
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