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Reporting the death of an inactive church member

Linda Tippets
Linda Tippets ✭
April 27 in Temple

I'm helping a sister whose brother died last November. He was baptized/confirmed as a child but was inactive at the time of his death. The sister recorded his death on FamilyTree but he does not appearing as a duplicate with ordinance information. She would like to have the remaining individual ordinances done. What does she need to do?

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  • BarryJohnson
    BarryJohnson mod
    April 27

    @Linda Tippets

    Hi Linda,

    Has the brother's membership record been amended to say that he is deceased? This will need to be done by the ward clerk before any further work can be done for him. With the waiting period now reduced to 30 days there shouldn't be any issues with merging the records and completing the ordinances, but post again if there are any further issues.

    Kind regards,

    Barry

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  • Bryan54
    Bryan54 ✭✭✭✭
    April 27

    Private message sent with an update on the issue.

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  • Linda Tippets
    Linda Tippets ✭
    April 27

    Since he had been inactive for quite some time and was rather transient (lived off the grid) I'm guessing his membership records hadn't followed him to where he was living when he died. Is there a department to contact at church headquarters that would be able to assist with this?

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  • DMS1737
    DMS1737 ✭✭✭✭
    April 27

    @Linda Tippets

    Please see the private message that was sent to you. You will know you have received a message by the red dot in the upper right corner near the bell.

    Thank you

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  • Bryan54
    Bryan54 ✭✭✭✭
    April 28

    Richard Cleon Stoney LKFT-PZK: The temple ordinances now appear correctly in Family Tree.

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  • Linda Tippets
    Linda Tippets ✭
    April 28

    Thank you!

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