Meeting Notes and Questions, May 1, 2014

Questions

1. What are the hierarchies in the church? The book pages are unclear as to how they should be grouped.
2. There are ambiguities in the database, is there enough information to sort out which are the people actually in those groups?
3. There are missing people, are they important enough and should we discuss this with Jill?
4. Marriage questions
   • What happens when a patriarch dies? Does the marriage disband or reorganize?
5. Updates on the Database
   • There are two organizations in the DB, Q12 and Seventy
   • Created table view of the organizations (see http://ford.cs.virginia.edu/nauvoo)

To Do

1. Get a list of people in the database that are in the AQ for Kathleen to vet. DONE.

Table alterations

Add the following to the Person table 1. Middle Name 2. Repeating Alternate Name field (AKA) 3. Repeating Title field 4. Preferred Name field

Quorum of the Annointed (1842 - Dec 1845)

• Includes Quorum of the 12 and others (First presidency, some of the Seventy)
• First endowment company (Collective exercies: go through the church/temple rites as companies)
• See emailed Document (Beki’s List for Access.pdf)
  • Group A came through in May 9th
  • Ignore Group C (for now)
• See emailed Document (AQ Working List.pdf)

Interesting Names

• Parley P. Pratt vs Parley Parker Pratt (id 434)
• Sidney Rigdon (id 42164)
• John Benett (sp) (id 17954 or 20690)
  • Defects in the summer chaos of 1842

Notes

See sketch of timeline on the notes for today.