Convert spouse not listed in household
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:04 pm
[Alan_Brown: This post and the responses were originally in the thread Duplicate heads of household in MLS, but since this issue is actually different, I moved these posts to a separate thread.]
I have a somewhat similar problem I noticed while recording HT Visits. One Household is listed as only the Husband.
The background I know. The Husband married a non-member and subsequently baptised her. Recently, as I was unable, no matter what, to sort out the record duplication on his spouse, I had headquarters fix it for me.
But now I am looking at a situation where, for HT purposes, his Spouse has dissappeared.
It seems this kind of problem is probably created by Clerks who fail to accurately attend to the details when managing membership and relationship changes of status. In this case, instead of the Existing Spouse being Baptised and made a Member, a whole new record was created and an element of 'clash' was set up that I could not resolve locally.
I plan to fiddle tonight, now that the duplicate record for the wife has been removed and see if I can get things so the Household is listed as Him and Her. The old story, 'MLS is good but no better than its weakest link - US the clerks'.
Due to my inability to sort out the 'duplication', which I thought would have been a snap, I am now not really confident that sorting the Household tag will be any easier. I'll get back.
WenU
I have a somewhat similar problem I noticed while recording HT Visits. One Household is listed as only the Husband.
The background I know. The Husband married a non-member and subsequently baptised her. Recently, as I was unable, no matter what, to sort out the record duplication on his spouse, I had headquarters fix it for me.
But now I am looking at a situation where, for HT purposes, his Spouse has dissappeared.
It seems this kind of problem is probably created by Clerks who fail to accurately attend to the details when managing membership and relationship changes of status. In this case, instead of the Existing Spouse being Baptised and made a Member, a whole new record was created and an element of 'clash' was set up that I could not resolve locally.
I plan to fiddle tonight, now that the duplicate record for the wife has been removed and see if I can get things so the Household is listed as Him and Her. The old story, 'MLS is good but no better than its weakest link - US the clerks'.
Due to my inability to sort out the 'duplication', which I thought would have been a snap, I am now not really confident that sorting the Household tag will be any easier. I'll get back.
WenU