No disagreement from me if you know the address and you know the ward. The problem I see is when a clerk thinks he "knows" the ward but does not know the address. I maintain that if you don't know the address, you really cannot "know" what ward they are in.hansg wrote:In this particular case, the area of the receiving ward is 226 square miles. He's geographically centrally located in the ward.
I'm still not sure that the computer is better than a reasoning clerk. . .
Sending records without an address or at least a telephone number just dumps them into a ward that has no means to contact them. Yes, if they are active and show up to church, that works. But most of my experience is the opposite - we get a record for someone with no way to find them, they never come to church, we end up sending them to the Address Unknown file anyway. In the meantime, it is possible the Church could have found them and gotten them in the right ward sooner.