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Having difficulty updating a member's non-member spouse info from home using LCR. Is this even possible within the capabilities of current software? Assuming it's fairly straightforward from MLS. Using LCR, software only offers addition of members to a household, so I can't even get to where I might add a NM spouse.

To even get the new last name, I had to select the option for legal name change (which it is), since guidance chosen for option for new marriage told me to add the marriage and the software would automatically add the new last name. Except -- no where I could find using LCR to add the marriage to a non member!!!

Help, please.

Thank you.

CKB

This function is still only available in MLS at the moment.

Any update on this? Because this function is not in MLS anymore

Yes, marriages are now recorded in LCR. Find the member's profile (using the search box or the Member List), click on the Family tab and then click on the Add Marriage link.

I have an interesting twist to this. I have a member whose husband was baptized in 2015. But unfortunately when this was all recorded the wife shows up as 'other' in the household. Their children all link correctly, but it won't register them as husband and wife. I've tried splitting and combining the households. I've tried updating all the names with middle names but that didn't seem to help. In the descriptions it lists them as non member spouses, even though they both have baptismal dates. Help?

hoopla4u wrote:In the descriptions it lists them as non member spouses, even though they both have baptismal dates. Help?

Call Local Unit Support on Monday. They're not properly linked to each other. As a result, when you put the wife into his household, she doesn't match up and gets classified as "other"

You can't fix this from your end without ending up with a false divorce and remarriage.

hoopla4u wrote:I have an interesting twist to this. I have a member whose husband was baptized in 2015. But unfortunately when this was all recorded the wife shows up as 'other' in the household. Their children all link correctly, but it won't register them as husband and wife. I've tried splitting and combining the households. I've tried updating all the names with middle names but that didn't seem to help. In the descriptions it lists them as non member spouses, even though they both have baptismal dates. Help?

Yet another example demonstrating the need for the ward clerk to review the convert baptism paperwork prepared by the missionaries before it goes to the mission office for data entry. I suspect all the relationships in this case would have been entered correctly if all information, including MRNs, had been entered correctly on the form.
As Russell said, Local Unit Support can fix all that.

When will LCR be updated to include addition of a non-member spouse?
This is really messing up our ward's records...
As a stop-gap measure, could a "Notes" text box be added to the member's profile?
This way non-member spouse's information can be saved, then officially migrated later when LCR is updated...

Due to privacy laws, I doubt we'll ever get that. You can record them as the spouse on the member's record.

If it helps any, you can make them visible in the on-line directory so the member doesn't look like they're single. But you have to contact support for that. Last I knew, there was nothing you could do at your end to change that.

russellhltn wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 10:50 am Due to privacy laws, I doubt we'll ever get that. You can record them as the spouse on the member's record.

If it helps any, you can make them visible in the on-line directory so the member doesn't look like they're single. But you have to contact support for that. Last I knew, there was nothing you could do at your end to change that.

Actually this is backwards currently, at least in the United States. The non-member spouse will show up in the online directory and member tools based on the current marriage information in the member's membership record, UNLESS the clerk contacts the GSD to have the non-member spouse suppressed.