share with temple after reservation limit met
Research is ongoing. The name reservation limit has been met. In order to share a name with the temple, I have to reserve the name first. I can't do that because the reservation limit has been met. I want to share the name with the temple for names that are newly researched. How do I share when I can't reserve?
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Move all but about 250 names from your personal reservation list to your Shared-with-temple list. That gives you a cushion of 50 names. Then as you research more family and get a family group in shape to reserve ordinances, reserve them and move them to the shared list, also. There is no limit to your Shared-with-temple list.
Or just share everything with the temple. Keep your personal reservation list only for your closest relations for whom you really, really want to complete the ordinances for. And go and get those completed. Then, when you have a temple day coming up, pull back from the Shared-with-temple list just what you are going to complete that day, print the cards, complete the ordinances, and when they are recorded, your personal list will be empty again, confirming that they were properly recorded.
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We're supposed to hasten the work and then we have the brakes put on because we're working too hard? I'm a convert. I don't have pioneer ancestors. I don't understand the limits. I've created family groups and shared with the temple and my numbers still don't seem to indicate that. There are a ton of names out there green as grass to have reserved and nothing I can do about it. I've added over 600 names to my family tree this year and I'm blocked. Where is a simple button to reserve for the temple? The temple reservations shared with the temple don't get done either. Very frustrating. Brings me to tears.
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@RitterNW, it does sound like you have misunderstood a couple of things.
You do not have to put on any brakes. You can work just as hard as you have opportunity to do. There is no limit on the names you can reserve.
The only requirement is that you only keep 300 lines of reservations on your personal list. Your personal list is labeled "My Reservations" and includes the two tabs "Available" and "Shared with Groups." I would suggest you keep this total under 200. Then you will have plenty of room to reserve a hundred more names and immediately shift them to your Shared With Temple list. While it would be nice to have a button to do this in one step rather than two, and maybe we will some day, it only takes a couple of minutes to select a bunch of names in My Reservations and click "Share With Temple."
As far as reservations shared with the temple not getting done, that is really not a problem either. As long as you are doing what you can personally, that is getting to the temple on whatever regular basis you can, you are doing all that you can do. Those names on the Shared With Temple list will get done sometime in the next 500 years. And when you run out of names on your My Reservations list, you can just pull some names back off the Shared with Temple list and do them yourself.
If you still don't see how this works post a screen shot like my example that shows your reservation list numbers and we can go through the the math.
One thing you should not do is stuff your My Reservation list with reservations that other people have already shared with the temple. These are the 90 day ordinances that have the notation "Ordinances that were previously shared with the temple cannot be shared again." If you have 300 of those, then you cannot reserve any more names and you are expected to complete all those ordinances within 90 days.
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I was under the impression that if I created Family Groups that the names assigned to Family Groups would reduce my personal reservation list the same as sharing with the temple. I have created 2 family groups and invited others to join. I have shared with the temple. There is a lot of effort in choosing which names I wish to keep such as grandparents, aunts/uncles, 1st cousins, etc. I took the time to check the relationship with each individual on my list. I have reduced my personal list to less than 70 names. Now I learn that the names assigned to family groups counts as part of my 300 and I still can't add to my temple reservation list. It took hours of research to share the names and now I learn that I've done all this and still can't reserve names--can't even share them directly with the temple. Very confusing, very disappointing, and very discouraging. I feel locked out. I never would have dreamed that the Church would prevent me from sending names to the temple.
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The church is not preventing you from sending names to the temple. Just pull back a few names from the family groups and share those with the temple. That will get you below the 300 line limit and allow your relatives who are not in those family groups to still find them using Ordinances Ready and help in the work of completing them. And, of course, as people in your family groups complete ordinances, you can always pull names back from you temple list and put them back in the family groups.
Now, I do hope, as other's have requested here, that there is someday the option of sharing with the temple directly from a person's ordinance page. Such programming changes take time. One of such magnitude I would expect to take about a year.
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Gordon, do you know what circumstances would allow someone to still have over 4,000 names in their reserved ordinances list? I know someone who does, and saw it with my own eyes today. I am not going to "rat" on the person but wonder why that is even possible. When it was announced that there was now a limit, I voluntarily shared hundreds of my names with the temple so that I would be in compliance. Would I still have all those names in my reservation list if I hadn't shared them?
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When the 300 line limit on our individual lists was instituted, no one had any reservations taken away from them. They just could not reserve any more until they got under 300 either by completing ordinances or moving names to their Shared With Temple list. This did mean, however, that as reservations expired and were moved automatically to their shared with temple list they could not move any of those reservations back to their individual lists.
Then covid hit and expirations were halted.
Now that reservations are expiring again, that person's list you saw will gradually have names shift to Shared with Temple lists as they expire, either that person's or the list they came from originally. They will not be able to reserve any more names until so many have expired or been moved that the person's number of reservations falls below 300.
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