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After I've worked on my genealogy for a few months, I usually run my PAF file through TempleReady and generate some cards for the temple. Sometimes I get 15 cards, sometimes I get over a hundred. When I get 15 cards, I know it won't be a problem to get them done relatively quickly since I have other family members to help me. But when I start generating 100+ names, I know it will be much more difficult. Sometimes I send a big file to the temple to do, but a better idea was published in the July 2006 Ensign.

A ward in Cincinnati, Ohio has found a new way to get those temple cards done. They have decided to share their efforts with the whole ward. The Family History Coordinator has everyone give their cards to him/her. The ward members are then supposed to contact the Coordinator before they go to the temple and get a card from the ward pile. This sounds like a pretty good idea and the ward seems to have united together in this effort. Here is an overview of their plan.

To read the full article by Rebecca M. Taylor, Finding Ancestors, Uniting a Ward, click here.