is the death date and location required before requesting ordinances?

Richard D Thorpe

ward famlysearch consultant is teaching everyone that you must have the death date entered before sharing a name with the Temple. If you leave the death date/location off there is a greater chance that the system for finding duplicates will not find a possible duplicates.

Is that correct?

The consultant is teaching us that the new way is to always add a death date and location because there is too many duplicates in the tree and without a death date you will be taking a name to the temple.

The consultant is also telling the class you will be wasting the the temple workers time, your time, and the Lords money if you don't enter a death date. (The past temple engineer went to a training meeting and they took the cost of operating the temple and then divided that by the number of ordinances completed in a year to come up with the cost per ordinance.)

Carla Tobler

@Richard D Thorpe

We are providing a link to an article from the Help Center. Attached to this article are 5 other related articles that will be helpful in answering your question.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/what-information-is-required-to-do-temple-ordinances-for-my-ancestors

It is true that the more information you can provide in the details section of a person's record, the less chance of duplication. It is always a good idea to research thoroughly and use complete, standardized dates and places. We should review and attach as many sources as possible too. But as you will read in these articles, it is not "required" that you have a death date and place before sharing a name with the temple.

Best wishes!

Richard D Thorpe

Our ward FamilySearch teacher told me that I was will wasting the temple workers time, my

time, and the Lord’s money if I don't enter a death date on a record before sharing or taking

an ancestor's name to the Temple. Why? because the system can’t find all the duplicates

without a death date.

(The past temple engineer went to a training meeting and they took the cost of operating the

temple and then divided that by the number of ordinances completed in a year to come up

with the cost per ordinance.)

Is she correct?

She said there is a new rule for requesting ordinances that you must

enter a death date and location before sharing a name with the temple? Why?

Because there is now to many duplicates in the tree and the system for finding

possible duplicates can't find all the possible duplicates without a death date

and location entered.

If this is true, where else should I be looking for possible duplicates?

I’m thinking that it’s never a waste of time to go the Temple, even if

there’s a possible duplicate that didn’t get merge. President Nelson talks

about the blessing you receive by going to the temple. If you teach people that

FamilySearch has problems in finding duplicates, then you run the risk of

people not wanting to use FamilySearch.

If President Nelson thinks it’s getting to expensive to have possible duplicates go through the

Temple, he would probably require members to pass a FamilySearch test before they could

request ordinances.

Mark McLemore

Mod Note: I've merged the two similar posts into one, and am marking this post resolved/answered.