Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-05

ed to each other In proper relationships
1t Is this form which Is followed and
recommended by tho Salt Lake temple
and the recorders there. as all the other
temples. also by this society.
Now, therefore; anyone who has como
Into possession of a family tree or fam
lily chart should at once procure a pen
Gil notebook, add the full name OF
the owner on the outside cover, the
date of beginning the work, and then
proceed to draw of the names accord
ing to the plan shown in last weeks
News. The words first generation
should be written over the first name
which thus appears. Then second gen.
eraton, third generation, ana so on.
No one should attempt to draw off
names from a printed tree or. chart
without first placing them regularly In
pencil notebook and, secondly, tran
scr!bing them all into a written temple
record. 1t Is lamentable 10 see the
carelessneSs of many In these matters.
Names arc set down on slips OF paper
bits of envelopes and scraps OF old let
tiers. Such names are given to the re-
corders and then perhaps lost forever
to the family OF the careless man who
thus trifles with his sacred work. 1t Is
not enough that such names be drawn
off on TO ;he temple sheets, and then
checked of simply from the chart or
diagram. Such proceeding Is both
slovenly and wrong. We are told dis
tinctly that our temple work will not
be accepted until all the recording OF IL
is as near perfect as 1t can be made
1t Is out of tho "books'-mind, Tho
books not "book'-that we are to be
judged And the keeping OF our own
temple books is quito rs important and
necessary to US as Is the keeping of the
records In the temple. That Is, II is as
necessary for our own work to be made
acceptable. Therefore. let us repeat:
the first thing to be done by a person
who has secured a chart. a pedigree or
a diagram OF his family line. either
printed or written. Is to write out all
the names first in a notebook, and then
in temple record; after that, the
names can be drawn Off on tomple
sheets and then entered back into the
record when the sheets are returned
from the temple.
This same instruction would apply to
book of printed genealogy. For 1t Is
as slovenly and as wrong to draw
names from such source without first
| putting them into the notebook and
then into a temple record rs 1t is to do
| the same thing from chart or pedi-
| gree. There are trained agents OF
| this society who can be reached through
the secretary, ready to do this work for
| a very small fee. Forty cents an hour Is
all the charge made, and unless a per-
| son knows how to properly prepare his
records. or Is willing TO take time to
learn. such a person should certainly
employ the skilled help of our agents.
rather than to complicate and muddle
his names and work so as to render IL
necessary In the future to throw away
| all his work or to hire some one to
| straighten out the tangle he VIII surely
| get into.
| MURRDIJL FAMILY.
| In the reference made to the Murrell
family some weeks since. the name OF
the town from which the family emf
grated was Tentenden, Kent. not Lin
tenden Will correspondents please
| write all proper names so plainly that
the wayfaring reader or printer may
not err therein?