Names you can share with the temple.
In my research I often find myself adding parents of individuals who have married into my line. Technically there is no relationship with those parents and myself. I always attach the source, usually a marriage record, to their page but I don't request and share their names with the temple. Am I correct in not requesting and sharing or is it ok if I share their names with the temple?
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I notice that none of us have actually given a clear answer to your original question! "Am I correct in not requesting and sharing or is it ok if I share their names with the temple?" Yes, you are correct! Do not request or share them.
But do continue to put in all the information you are. That is a great service to those people who are responsible for taking care of the temple work for those people.
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The current Temple policy is listed in an article in the FamilySearch Help Center. You can click on the link below and it will take you to it.
Individuals for whom I can request temple ordinances
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Collateral family lines (uncles, aunts, cousins, and their families)--so would this mean that a 1st cousin 4xs removed in-laws be considered his collateral family and therefore I could share their names with the temple?
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The 1st cousin 4x's wife would but her parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, etc. would not.
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The simplest explanation I have heard is this:
We are only to submit people with whom we share a common ancestor and those people's spouses.
In other worse, we need to be able to trace directly back from us to a proven ancestor then directly forward to the person we want to submit. No going back in time, then forward, then back again.
Collateral lines only go forward in time. "And their families" means only spouse and children.
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“You can perform temple ordinances for aunts and uncles to whom you are biologically related. You can also do temple ordinances for their spouses and children. However, you should not do temple ordinances for the spouse’s extended family (parents, siblings, and so forth).
For example, you can do ordinances for your father’s sister (your aunt) and for her husband (your uncle). You can do ordinances for their children (your cousins). You should not do ordinances for your uncle’s extended family (parents, siblings, and so on).”
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