Group Administrators
The indexing page indicates who my ward group administrator is and if you click on my parent unit page (Stake) it indicates who the Stake Group Administrators are. I just spoke to my Stake Group Administrators and they have never heard of being a Group Administrator and denied having to do with indexing. They said that they are just in charge of Family History. Indexing falls under Family History on the Church website and somebody assigned them as well as setting a yearly goal. But, if they are unaware of themselves being assigned as group administrators and have had no involvement in it, then I am at a loss as to what is going on.
My Elder's Quorum President is trying to have me assigned as a ward group administrator, but nobody seems to know anything about how to do that or even that they exists.
I need to know how unit and stake group administrators are assigned. Who makes the assignment.
I also have had two members show up on my indexing roster in the past 3 days that are not assigned to my unit or stake. I need to know how to fix it.
If somebody can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.
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I have been called as a stake temple and family history consultant and also as am over indexing for our stake. The calling has been recently changed so that all temple and family history consultants have adminstive rights and those are over family history in their calling. This is why when you go to your stake or ward group you see more names than used to be there. These all these people now have the administrator rights.
I have people in my stake that have passed away but are still on our roster that I need to find out how to get them removed. Thanks for reminding me I need to find out how. Jason Pierson at FS is who I usually email with questions. I think that when a person not of your ward who has asked to join, an administrator accepts them in.
I don't know if this has helped at all
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That is a very good answer, thank you.
To follow-up, we have several Stake and Family History Consultants, but only two are administrators. Do you know who assigns administrators.
I assume that a Stake Group Administrator can assign a Unit Group Administrator. Is that correct?
In the case of the two people on our roster that are not in our unit or Stake, if our group administrators, who did not even know they were group administrators and didn't assign them, how could they be on our list?
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Regarding deceased persons, it is my understanding that they should disappear from the list of members of your ward/stake group when the ward clerk has submitted their records to headquarters indicating that they are deceased. From what I understand, other than talking to the ward clerk or ward membership clerk to encourage them to do the submission, there is nothing that you, as a group administrator, can do about it.
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The people are not deceased nor have ever been on our Stake or Unit roster. They just magically showed up. They are not on our MIS.
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The deceased names have been removed from LDS tools so they have been removed from ward records. I have an Indexing Chat meeting Monday. I will see if Heather knows. If not, I will ask Jason.
Thanks though.
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In our stake we have a stake Family History Center so our head and myself were officially called by our stake presidency counselor over FH.
Each bishopic called an indexing person for their ward.
I set our stake indexing goal. Each ward set their own goal. Each was called by their bishopric. This is how it was done in our stake. Maybe the handbook could answer your question if this doesn't.
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I received an extensive formal reply from Family Search on this.
Your indication of how things worked in your Stake and Unit is correct. There are some nuances though.
Family History Leaders at unit and Stake level perform group administrator functions as part of their calling, this is a fairly recent addition to the FHL calling.
Group administrators can assign other group administrators within their unit. You do not have to be called to be assigned as as a group administrator unless you are an FHL. So, non FHL group administrators would do this as an assignment or tasking vice calling, unless the Bishop decides he wants to make it a calling. The same thing applies for indexing. It is not a calling unless the Bishop decides to make it one.
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Thank you for sharing
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