Why do ordinances shared with the temple count towards my 300 reservations?

Carol B Cash

If I have shared ordinances with the temple, why do they count towards my family reservations? I do not share my family reservations with the temple. I reserve a lot of ordinances for distant family members and those I share with the temple so anyone can do them. The close family member ordinances I do not share but I have over 200 of those and every week or so my number is back over 300 and I am frozen until I unreserve the shared names. All that work done and the ordinances may or may not be reserved by someone else.

Thanks, Carol Cash

Gordon Collett

Ordinances you have shared with the temple do not count towards the 300 limit. If you go to your temple reservation page, in the upper left corner, you will see your reservation counts:

"My Reservations" includes your personal reservation list and the names you have shared with any family group. The only way the My Reservations total could be increasing, is that you are reserving more people to your personal list.

As you can see, the second line, "Shared" are those shared with the temple and this is a second total which is unlimited. There is no cap on it at all. You never need to unreserve names you have shared with the temple.

What you describing in you post really doesn't fit with how the program works, so there must be something I am not understanding correctly or we're having a problem with terminology. If what I am describing doesn't seem to be what you see, please try again to describe what you are running into.

One thing that is confusing a lot of people is how 90-reservations are handled. If you reserve ordinances in Family Tree that have a green icon of a temple and stopwatch like this:

you are taking them from someone else's shared with the temple list. They go onto your My Reservations list, count towards your 300 and have a notation that they cannot be shared with the temple. That is because they already are. There is no need to fill your reservation list with these unless you can very promptly get the work done. If your list gets too full and you need to unreserve these, there is no reason to be concerned. They remain on the shared temple list of that other person and will get completed as it becomes their turn.

Carol B Cash

Thanks for your clarification. I did talk to a Family Search missionary who helped out as well.

Gwendolyn Moulton

GREAT explanation, Gordon Collett!