tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post5134543227116926083..comments2024-03-26T21:29:07.190-07:00Comments on Rejoice, and be exceeding glad...: Are we still stuck on Green Icons?James Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-60449581078927073552017-07-15T07:02:52.164-07:002017-07-15T07:02:52.164-07:00Considering that only 5% of members are even doing...Considering that only 5% of members are even doing family history, and there are many members who live close to the temple and yet rarely go, I wonder if they're trying to just get people to log on to Family Search and be interested on some level.RT and Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12869535583945601736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-32343197688737719392017-07-15T06:36:07.214-07:002017-07-15T06:36:07.214-07:00Look for a blog post on this subject and your comm...Look for a blog post on this subject and your comment. James Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-82518662651506555232017-07-14T18:31:43.505-07:002017-07-14T18:31:43.505-07:00Your comments here go along, somewhat, with a bit ...Your comments here go along, somewhat, with a bit of a quandary I find myself in. I have recently completed the project of going through my wife’s ancestors in Family Tree, all Norwegian and Swedish, back eight generations on all lines cleaning up names and places and attaching all the historical sources in Family Search and in the Norwegian and Swedish Digital Archives. This has included the ancestors, all their additional spouses, all their children, and all their children’s spouses. This has taken about four years. We have been working on her family far longer than that, of course, and I have gotten really good in Norwegian research. <br /><br />In this process, we have added sufficient names to her temple reservation list to keep us and our adult children busy even though we have never taken anything other than family names to the temple since shortly after we got married years ago. We have no need to add any more to her reservation list.<br /><br />Also in this process, I have seen where the descendants of these ancestors continue on, which records have been covered by extraction projects, and which have not.<br /><br />I feel it would not be an exaggeration and not too immodest to say that that because of all this work, I could pick almost any one of her ancestors, start descendancy research, and have several hundred individual with good, complete, well sourced Family Tree records with green icons with a few months of work.<br /><br />So my quandary is, what do I do?<br /><br />Start researching just because I find it a fascinating, stimulating, enjoyable intellectual exercise akin to putting together a jigsaw puzzle (I won’t say fun, having read your blogs about that particular term) and rob the descendants of these cousins of my wife of the opportunity to find their ancestors through real research?<br /><br />Or do I find other things to do in Family Tree and let the descendants of these people do the research themselves someday, if ever?<br /><br />When I have completed large blocks of families and have added dozens of green icons to the tree, does my wife submit them all to the temple to be sure the work is done, thereby depriving their descendants of the opportunity to “find” them and do the temple work themselves? Since they would all share a common ancestor with my wife, my wife is authorized to do that.<br /><br />Or do I just leave all the green icons to reinforce for anyone stumbling along these lines that Family Tree is full of green icons just waiting to be found?<br /><br />Any thoughts?Gordon Colletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10501621351412089615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-60939427956667868862017-07-13T14:04:17.831-07:002017-07-13T14:04:17.831-07:00My wife and I are temple and family history consul...My wife and I are temple and family history consultants in our ward. It seems that in the minds of the people we work with "doing your family history" means combing through Family Tree looking for green temple icons. The concept of actually doing family history research has been completely lost. The Find-Take-Teach program seems to promote this kind of thinking. I'm not sure what the answer is. It almost seems like there has to be a dual approach where FS encourages the seasoned, committed genealogists in the Church to go in and clean up the tree and do the serious research. Unfortunately, this aspect of family history seems to be completely absent from the message that is going out from FS. For the rest of the Church programs like Find-Take-Teach will at least give them the experience of taking a family name to the temple. Ted Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09810743230086342147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-60040200219638952442017-07-13T11:08:16.006-07:002017-07-13T11:08:16.006-07:00Good comment. Yes, there is something about the wa...Good comment. Yes, there is something about the way we talk about the Family Tree that makes most people belief that the green icons grow there unassisted. James Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-81629097577371383932017-07-13T08:48:58.072-07:002017-07-13T08:48:58.072-07:00I'm amazed at how many people think doing thei...I'm amazed at how many people think doing their genealogy means combing Family Search for temple icons. There are even apps that will do that for you. Is there something about the way we talk about it that gives the impression that it's just there on Family Search? How do we help people understand what research really is?RT and Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12869535583945601736noreply@blogger.com