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Show Genealogical Topics By C. V. Hansen Why the Index Bureau.. For many years the Church authorities had recognized that it could be possible, without proper guidance, that several persons might be gathering genealogy on the same line and Uiey might, unintentionally, unintention-ally, do te.i:ple work for the same individual several times. In order to avoid t is duplication each individual in-dividual was restricted to four lines on which he might do temple work. This was not satisfactory because many people were prevented from doing the work for their ancestors on lines in which no one else was interested. The index bureau was the final answer to the question. We can new wo.k on all lines without fear of duplication as all names are checked here against all that has ever been dene in the L. D. S. temples. In the ten years of its existence "the Index bureau has prevented duplication temple work being done for some over 350,000 names. When the temple work has been done for any of our ancestors the index bureau will furnish us the information as to when and by whom, the wo.k was done. Another service which the Index Bureau is rendering is setting up certain standards which must be met in writing up records so that work may not be done in the temples tem-ples for names when there .is not encugh information given on the temple records to properly inden-tify inden-tify the individual. Some seem to think that if they do temple work for a "Mr. Jones" without giving any further info'.mation about him that t'r.e angels will know our intentions in-tentions and will make a proper record and will call up the prope "Mr. Jones" to accept the work that has been done for him. The Index Bureau insis's that we do net waste our time doing temple wo k for names until we have made a proper record of certain essentials c.n which they are able to check. To show our appreciation of the Index bureau we will at all times try to comply with rules which govern gov-ern the work being done there. The Index Bureau of the Genealogical Genea-logical Society of Utah is conducted in connection with the Genealogical Genealogi-cal library, located in the Smith Memo ial building, one block north ci the Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City. |