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Ruth Knowlton: Well, I have been helping her the last two years or so. Three years maybe now. Oh, it is fascinating but that's what needs to be done there now. We have got a skeleton but now let's really compact it. That's what needs to be done.

Orson Clark: Those that haven't been completed, it should be and the work done for those that have been. So I don't know. Of course with me, my eyes and hearing and the like have gotten to a point where I'm not much good on it. In fact, I can't work on those machines anymore.

Ruth Knowlton: No, those are hard. That's the reason I felt that maybe a committee ought to be involved in that genealogy from the group. Take and chose wisely on a group of people who would devote their time to working on it from the family organization and not depend upon paying money to professionals.

Orson Clark: Yes, if there were a group of them.

Ruth Knowlton: Certainly the Richards family, that's what they do. they have a committee of six people. Brother Tate can take you through that. They have so many on their committee and each one of them are responsible for a certain line. I see them all the time at the Genealogical Library. Everyone of them are industriously working. That's what they do, that's their devotion to the Richards Family Organization. It seems to me the Clarks can do it if the Richards can. 

Orson Clark: It's someone to get it done.

Ruth Knowlton: Something has got to make the organization more solid now. We had this blow up in our face on genealogy and now how to bring it and firm it back up you know, and get a cohesive unit in the organization. So it's operating and it's working.

Orson Clark: That would have to be a special committee and someone that understood the thing to guide them along showing what needs to be done and how it is to be done.

Ruth Knowlton: Now see, here is a place for you where you could still find a place of interest and value and yet you wouldn't feel obliged to exhaust your energies. But you would have a group of people who you could give them of your expertise that you have done in the past.

Orson Clark: That would be fine with me.

Ruth Knowlton: It sounds good when it's talked about it.

Interviewer: Changing the subject, who do you think would make a good program chairman for next June? We are hoping to get O.C. Tanner in view of the fact that his mother is being honored but he