Membership audit

Yearly audit comes up with one exception. Marriage is missing for a brother. I go to the brother’s member info and the wedding is recorded?????

harris65 wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:58 pm Yearly audit comes up with one exception. Marriage is missing for a brother. I go to the brother’s member info and the wedding is recorded?????

Just to make sure everyone understands, this is a user-to-user discussion forum, not a place to file the official audit report. To file the official audit, please use LCR.

If you're looking for suggestions/help to resolve the exception, thank you for not posting detailed personal information here. Your stake clerk may have suggestions, and you will be able to discuss details with him.

I wonder if the information is incomplete. Either the spouse isn't properly linked or year is missing.

The standards for recording a marriage have tightened in recent years. If any of the information is missing it may trigger an exception. This would include the spouse's name, spouse's date of birth including the year, marriage place (city, county, state if in USA) and marriage date including the year. If the member is receptive you can obtain the information and update the record. If that is not the case you can mark the audit question done, as there is nothing you can do at this time. Only mark the question with a yes if you are going to be able to obtain and update the marriage. If all the information is in fact there make sure it is in the proper format, then call the GSC for help as needed.

Although not technically considered an ordinance, based on 38.2.6.1, I'd assume a civil marriage date would only require a year. If they were married in the temple, I'd think all the information would be complete.

It may be worth a call to support to find out what's going on. This one is likely to keep reoccurring with each audit until fixed.

My suspicion:

When you performed the membership audit, you were presented with a list of adults who could potentially be married and then you were supposed to check the box for any members who are married whose marriage was not recorded. You checked the box, so now the member shows up on your audit list.

I am assuming that your thinking is "here is a member who is married but whose spouse has passed away, so I'm going to check the box because he shouldn't be on this list." That makes sense, but you and the audit system are having a little disconnect over what it is asking. The audit system looks at him as a single adult (his prior spouse is deceased) and is basically asking you to determine if he has remarried and the new marriage hasn't been recorded.

Short answer: Don't check the box. He doesn't have an unrecorded marriage. His prior marriage has been recorded correctly and he has not remarried, so this isn't a record that needs to be corrected.