Pandora's Hope Chest Trouble

A little while ago I had some trouble with Pandora's Hope Chest. (I explained the program in my last blog post.)   Every time I came into familysearch, it would reset and ask me to do the tutorial again.  It would find one hundred names and then the next time, the slate would be wiped clean and I'd have to start over.

I looked all over the internet for a solution for my problem under "hope chest trouble," "Pandora's Hope trouble shooting"  and "Help my Pandora's Hope Chest keeps resetting and I don't know how to fix it, is there anyone who does?" (Okay not the last one) There was surprisingly little to be found and none of it helpful.

So for those experiencing similar troubles, this is what I did.  I uninstalled and re-installed Google Chrome.  It didn't change anything else, but resetting it reset the extension and got it working again.

Pandora's Hope Chest

I find it sort of ironic that an icon used to store evil in myths is now helping the good work of genealogy. Now on familysearch.org you can sift through all the records for people ready to have their temple work done at the click of a mouse.

Pandora's Hope Chest is an extension of Google Chrome. (Click on the link to go to the free download page.) You download it, restart your browser and then click the icon and follow the tutorial on familysearch. 

It can run in the background of whatever you are doing and you can even have several going at once.  It will compile all the work it finds.  Later you can go through it and see what work needs to be done.

It's a tool that makes family history so much easier.