Gaining permission to do a sealing

LeckieMargaret

I am working with my active LDS cousin who wants to seal her brother who died a little over a year ago to his second wife, who passed away in 1991. He has been inactive most of his life and though was endowed many years ago is not affiliated with a ward. She is not a member,

I am trying to explain the process to them. I spoke with a sister missionary over the phone (866-406-1830). I think I misunderstood what she told me. I thought she told me I should work through this community group to do request the permission.

Please give me the steps. I am a ward consultant and just retired from 7 years (a couple of years ago) as a consultant at the BYU Family History Center. So many things have changed so I appreciate your help.

Do I need to enter her ex husband and their divorce sources and the names of their living children into FamilySearch?

Thanks in advance

Margaret

PS - Please explain process.

Gordon Collett

Here is the Help Center article that gives the procedure: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-request-ordinances-for-an-ancestor-who-was-born-in-the-last-110-years

To request permission you just go to the ordinance page of the person needing ordinances, click on request, click on "I have permission," and a form will pop up. Fill out the form and submit it:

I don't know how much information there needs to be in Family Tree if you are requesting ordinances for a sister-in-law. The Family Tree program does use relationship information there to determine when you are one of a person's closest relatives, as when requesting ordinances for a sibling or parent, so that this form does not appear.

Gordon Collett

Here is some advice about getting permission: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/do-i-need-permission-from-the-closest-living-relative-to-do-temple-ordinances

Miss Jessie

The articles cited above assume that you are related in some way to the person who’s ordinances you would like to reserve.

If Family Tree cannot detect a relationship, the 110 permission form will not popup.

In that case, special handling is required to submit and process your request. See this help article: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/can-i-request-proxy-temple-ordinances-for-a-friend

You must submit signed permission from a close living relative of your friend. Then, you can request temple ordinances for a friend to whom you are unrelated.

A close living relative is an undivorced spouse (the spouse to whom the individual was married at the time of death), an adult child, a parent, a brother, or a sister. Please see the Church’s General Handbook: Serving in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 28.1.            

Before you start

Make sure that you have signed, written permission from one of your friend's close living relatives. We cannot accept signed, written permission from yourself or your deceased friend, it must be from the closest living relative.

Word the written permission this way: 

I, (name of person giving permission), give (your name) permission to do temple work in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple, for (name of deceased), who is my (relationship to person giving permission).  (Signature of person giving permission)

If your deceased friend has no close living relatives that can provide written permission, then a request cannot be granted. 

Steps

1. Add your deceased friend to Family Tree. For help doing this, please see the related article below, titled: How do I add an unconnected person to Family Tree?
2. Note your friend's ID number in Family Tree.
3. To request the ordinances, contact FamilySearch. Be prepared to provide this information:
   1. The Family Tree ID of the person for whom you want to do ordinance work. 
   2. The full name of the person for who you want to do ordinance work.
   3. Your relationship to the person.

Gordon Collett

Currently, this forum is the best way to contact FamilySearch if it turns into a situation where that is needed. Since you are talking about a sister-in-law, that should not be the case, I don't think. However, when posting here on such a matter, I would suggest something like:

"Please have a moderator direct message me about a temple reservation issue. The matter includes private information that should not be posted here. Thank you."

Then you can get a private conversation going.