I've been called to the Temple and Family History council in my ward and have been attending the Sunday school classes the past few weeks. Yesterday in class I was reflecting on how broad and complex family history work is. It contains nothing less than the human history of the world at the bewildering detail of individual people. To make any kind of systematic database of it, such as the kind needed for temple work and family history, you would have to codify into software an immense amount of intricate sets of conventions, customs, name changes, churches, social science, political, legal, and church records, unicode, etc. It seems we are commanded to make as accurate a map of human history as possible. Or at least a personal one; one that knows all the details about why we are really here, namely church and priesthood ordinances and some bookeeping information like births and deaths.
How great is our charge. It will take nothing less than the best from all of us. Justin _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
