Finding a merged members donations
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:05 pm
Up front I have to confess that I haven't really sat down and tried to figure out what is happening in the situation I am about to describe but I have pondered it a great deal. Before I sit down again at the unit's computer I thought I would ask for any insight any of you might have.
The situation is thus - a sister in one of the units paid her offerings under her maiden name. She then married and now the unit wants to merge her offerings (made under her maiden name) with her married name donations. But, they can't find her married name under the list of donors. Her married name is definitly in the membership list (I looked). I sat down and briefly looked at the donor list and membership lists but in just the few minutes available at the time I was unable to determine what the problem is.
My thoughts so far is that one of several items may be the problem:
1. She hasn't donated offerings since her marriage thus her married name wouldn't show as a donor
2. She donated but did it in her husbands name thinking they were combined donors
3. The unit already merged her but did it backwards (?) merging her married name to the maiden name rather then the other way around.
These are the only reasons I can come up with off hand that would cause the unit to be unable to find her married name donations. Before I sit down at their ward computer I thought perhaps someone may know of something else that I'm not seeing that may be causing the problem.
Willing to listen to any and all explanations before I tackle this.
Jim
The situation is thus - a sister in one of the units paid her offerings under her maiden name. She then married and now the unit wants to merge her offerings (made under her maiden name) with her married name donations. But, they can't find her married name under the list of donors. Her married name is definitly in the membership list (I looked). I sat down and briefly looked at the donor list and membership lists but in just the few minutes available at the time I was unable to determine what the problem is.
My thoughts so far is that one of several items may be the problem:
1. She hasn't donated offerings since her marriage thus her married name wouldn't show as a donor
2. She donated but did it in her husbands name thinking they were combined donors
3. The unit already merged her but did it backwards (?) merging her married name to the maiden name rather then the other way around.
These are the only reasons I can come up with off hand that would cause the unit to be unable to find her married name donations. Before I sit down at their ward computer I thought perhaps someone may know of something else that I'm not seeing that may be causing the problem.
Willing to listen to any and all explanations before I tackle this.
Jim