Item Detail
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30792
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English
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Automating the Records
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Hearts Turned to the Fathers
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BYU Studies
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1994
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34
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2
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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303-338
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[1995 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Article Award of Excellence]
In April 1964, elder Howard W Hunter then president of the Genealogical Society attended a weekly computer seminar sponsored by IBM in San Jose, California after the first day he wrote in his journal: "I was amazed in having been able to write a computer program in one day without previous experience." On the fifth day he was less ebullient: "The material is so concentrated and given so rapidly it keeps one under a constant strain to keep up the session concluded with a look into the future and what we might expect in new data processing equipment." Elder Hunter had glimpsed the potential of computer technology to manage and process names for temple ordinance work it was under his direction that automation was implemented.