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Status of Printed no longer accurate when temple keeps ordinance cards and shreds them

JeffLuke
JeffLuke ✭✭✭
September 3, 2021 edited September 3, 2021 in Suggest an Idea

I took an ordinance card to the temple yesterday to do an endowment.

I had printed the card before the temple stopped returning cards, so the card included both endowment and sealing to parents.

The card was shredded by the temple, so it is no longer 'printed'.

However, the status on familysearch is 'printed'.

If the temple is destroying people's ordinance cards, they need to make sure that the digital records match the physical reality. The data system needs to change the status to 'not printed'.

I am surprised this was not accounted for when the temple stopped returning cards.


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  • Emma Jean Fichera
    Emma Jean Fichera ✭
    September 5, 2021

    JeffLuke, keeping track of what needs to be done now takes more work than before. I'm using my Temple completed list as the master control list. We hope it becomes easier!!!

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  • JeffLuke
    JeffLuke ✭✭✭
    September 8, 2021 edited September 8, 2021

    It used to be easier. Then it was made harder. I would like to think changes wouldn't be made unless those changes make it easier and more efficient for patrons to do temple work, and track progress.

    Having the data system tell people that cards are printed, when in reality they have been destroyed is a problem, and has an easy fix.

    I feel like I now need to track temple ordinances and cards that need to be reprinted by writing them out manually on a piece of paper. That's not a good solution.

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 9, 2021

    My wife and I attended a session today. We had printed out cards before the temples closed. We'd completed B/C/I and did endowments today. The cards were kept by the temple. We got home five minutes ago and checking on them, the endowments are recorded and for both of them and the status for sealing to parents has been changed to "Not Printed."

    Apparently it was an easy and quick fix.

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  • Stephanie Stafford Toone
    Stephanie Stafford Toone ✭
    September 10, 2021 edited September 10, 2021

    Preach it! This is a huge pain! My mom and I both have over a 1000 names each in our reserve because she is a convert and we have done extensive research. Many people help us by taking our printed name cards to help us with the work. BUT, when I try to print out the cards and it still says "printed" we have to make sure it was a shredded card which leaves us scrambling and pulling out our hair making sure it really is not one that we have printed. Such a huge oversight! It could be resolved easily if they just bumped the status back to "not printed" for the remaining ordinances every time they shred. Majorly upsetting and time consuming! PLEASE FIX THIS!😥

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  • Stephanie Stafford Toone
    Stephanie Stafford Toone ✭
    September 10, 2021
    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/375111#Comment_375111

    Did your temple do this? We have not had this experience at all in Seattle or Spokane.

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 11, 2021

    I have no idea exactly what process changed them to Not Printed. Ours is one of the smaller temples. Maybe it is part of a pilot program to see if a new procedure for this works?

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  • JeffLuke
    JeffLuke ✭✭✭
    September 14, 2021

    The ordinance status are not being updated to 'not printed' for me. Meridian Idaho temple.

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  • LAHS6
    LAHS6 ✭✭✭
    September 15, 2021

    I also had a lot of cards printed with all the ordinances on them. Now, soon after I do a session for any ordinance, I reprint the card for the next ordinance. That's the way I keep track of the names that are "printed"

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  • JeffLuke
    JeffLuke ✭✭✭
    September 16, 2021

    That's hard to manage when you share ordinance cards with others, especially since the recording doesn't seem to update instantaneously anymore and may take several days.

    It would be best if the temple simply changed the status to 'not printed' when they physically destroyed an ordinance card.

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