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Soy miembro de la iglesia desde el 17 de junio de 1984 fui ordenado elder por el Presidente de Misiòn John B. Keeler el 25 de noviembre de 1984 en el Distrito de Nuevo Laredo tamaulipas ( Hoy Estaca Nuevo Laredo )y quisiera contar con mi lìnea de autoridad.
Desde entonces he servido en la iglesia. El 29 de mayo de 1988 fui ordenado Sumo Sacerdote por Juan Salais Caballero en la Estaca Piedras Negras Mèxico en Piedras Negras, Coahuila. El 8 de octubre de 1989 fui presentado y el 10 de octubre apartado como primer consejero al presidente de estaca en Piedras Negras y el 22 de noviembre de 1992 fui llamado como Presidente de estaca sirviendo por un perìodo de 9 años.
Deseo saber si existe la linea de autoridad de John B. Keeler para contar con la mìa y si es la de èl la que debo de obtener o la de la ordenaciòn de sumo sacerdote. despuès de mi relevo como presidente de estaca fui llamado como obispo de mi barrio piedras negras 4

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Left Field, I’ve got a couple of advertisements for long-carriage typers that I can put up as a post. I don’t recall whether I’ve ever seen one in real life, either, but I remember a certain tone of envy in the voice when someone once referred to Sister So-and-So who did have one. Those long two-post binders made great coffee table books but lousy on-the-shelf books. I suppose as long as we were using them, it did make sense to print certificates and other docs to fit them, but converting to the standard three-ring binder must have been painful for those who had invested so much time in arranging and decorating their books of remembrance in the long format. Maybe that’s one reason why they went away — the enthusiasm couldn’t survive the transition.

And I realize now that I didn’t acknowledge Terrie, who jump started this old discussion. If you’ve read this far, Terrie, thanks for your comment. Like you, I’ve faced having to redesign my business somewhat recently, when technology and decisions at the church library have opened options other than MY services to obtain the records people need. I’m starting to feel like a whale oil salesman in the early days of electricity, or like a buggy-whip manufacturer in the early days of the automobile.

The pages I used for mine back in the 70s were of course also privately published, but I’m pretty sure the church produced the two-post binders and some other materials to go in them, in addition to the standard genealogy forms.

My deacon’s ordination certificate from 1971 was book-of-remembrance size with holes pre-punched to form a page in the book. By the time I became a teacher, the certificate had shrunk to normal letter size. That long certificate was really a bad idea. Mine is still in the book of remembrance binder, but if anyone wants to use a different format, it’s going to be impossible to include their original certificates without folding. My patriarchal blessing (late 70s) was also on a legal sized form, but it was a vertical format and didn’t have holes punched.

The long genealogy forms were also a problem because they had to be folded to type on them and no matter where it was folded, it seemed that some entries went across the fold. Rumor had it that one could get a typewriter with an extra long carriage to hold legal sized forms sideways, but I never saw one.

Dad had been ordained an Elder by his father, who had passed on by the time Dad was to be ordained a high priest. Dad had memorized his PLA, complete with dates, so he specifically asked that the ordination be performed by Bro. Olsen (who had ordained HIS dad) so his PLA wouldn’t change.

I think my father got his line from Salt Lake for when he was an elder and ordained me a deacon and teacher. By the time I was a priest and elder, my father was a high priest, and I think he got a card from the guy who ordained him. I was ordained a high priest about 8 years ago by my stake president. He said he would give me his line of authority, but he never did before I moved away. I guess I should email him and see if he can send it to me.

The don’t do Books of Remembrance anymore? I must be a few decades out of touch. I just thought they would be in a different format since they did away with the long genealogy forms.

The Book of Remembrance went out just before I was old enough to start compiling one. I kinda wish I had done it anyway!