Sweep AP - trying to close periods

Hi, I'm looking for guidance and understanding.

My predecessor never closed periods.  I am working on closing them and ran across 28 transactions that are showing on the Period Close Exception Report.  They fall into this category:

Accounting Entries not Transferred to the General Ledger

Submit the Transfer Journal Entries to GL process to transfer any untransferred accounting entries to GL

Navigate: Payables Responsibility > Other > Request > Run > Transfer Journal Entries to GL

These are from the Oct11-12 period.  I am assuming the vouchers were recreated and paid but they didn't know what to do with these so they left them.  If I understand my research correctly, I can sweep these to the next open AP period and then close the Oct11-12 period.  This would put them in the Nov11-12 period so I would need to continue this process to the current period and thereafter.  I don't want to send these to GL because they are so old and have already been handled (I'm assuming again).