boomerbubba wrote:Even for those who preserved the phone numbers (we did), canvassing members at tithing settlement or some other method is probably necessary.
We saved the numbers, but just like CHQ we have no way of knowing what the old Secondary Phone was meant to be: Was it the spouse's number, or a cell or work phone for the head of household who recorded a home landline for the old Primary Phone? Since we have to ask the members this anyway, we might as well ask them their phone number. And in any case we have to ask them their email addresses, and any information they want recorded for children.
So those who lost the phone numbers probably did not lose much useful information.
SLC could just have saved their time by assigning the secondary phone number to one of the spouses during the upgrade. There's probably a decent chance it would have been the right spouse. There's a small probability that the secondary family number belonged to a child, particularly one under 18.
The logic of "we don't know what to do with it, so we'll just throw it away, when we've just created data structures that would logically contain it" is appalling.
At least in my ward's case, simply assigning the secondary to the personal number of either the husband or wife would have been yielded about a 40% success rate in either case.
We already have emails for both spouses. We just crammed both emails into one line and override MLS when it complains about a format.
Former membership clerk under 3 bishops, now on 2nd stint as executive secretary. Can I go back to teaching priesthood now?