Accept on Jewish line
I was concerned that when I pressed Accept it gave me permission to do a non-related person. I thought Accept meant that I had read and accepted the information. But when I pressed ACCEPT it reserved the name for me! I was showing my Jewish friend that you had to be related to do work for someone but it let me and I'm not related. I feel very concerned because i thought Accept meant that I had read and understood the policy.
Also, is there a way for my Jewish friend to take her family off the tree?
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Hi Katherine. I can understand your confusion. When you click accept, It does mean that you have read and understand the policies but then as you found, it also completes the reservation. FamilySearch provides the policy and then it is a expected that people reserving ordinances will be honest as they click Accept. There are a number of things in place to help us monitor poor behavior and action can be taken if it is found that someone is not following the policies. Our leaders continue to emphasize the importance of working on our own families.
There is not a way to delete people from the tree. One thing to remember is that her family is also the family of many other people. There will likely be people she is related to that are added or edited by others who are also related. I hope this helps!
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This is the statement that we are presented with every time we start to reserve an ordinance.
Clicking Accept means that you are certifying that you have checked and you are a relative and you are authorized by church policy as written here to reserve the ordinances.
We are expected to take the counsel seriously, govern ourselves, and if we are not a relative to cancel the reservation.
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Perhaps you, or another moderator, could move this item to the more appropriate "Temple" section.
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I am glad to see this discussion here in the Tree category. It helps to explain the "stick to your own direct ancestors" attitude by some persons here: they are confused. LDS policy re LDS temple work does not apply to FamilySearch Tree.
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Initially, I thought the originator was talking about Family Tree in general, then saw the subject matter relates to ordinances - hence my suggestion. Nevertheless, I agree with you about not having to confine our Family Tree inputs to our own family branches.
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@Paul W exactly! That's why it is so important to be clear about the difference between the public tree and the private church-internal system.
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