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Three Ways to Use FamilySearch Family Tree • • FamilySearch Blog

Did you know that there are three versions of FamilySearch’s Family Tree you can use as you help others with their family history? Deciding …

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Scott Dick

How do I enter information to prepare a name for temple work? Can I only do family? I'm an uniformed ward Temple and Family History Leader who has ward members with three different situations:

1.) newly arrived from Africa, and has a daughter who died.

2.) newly married daughter who wants to do work for husband's family. Or father of this daughter who wants to do work for his son in-law's family.

3.) just baptized member who wants to start his own history.

Do all these start with a familysearch account? Should we expect to find the new member already in the records or will we have to start entering their own information?

Thanks to anyone out there who will help with this.

Amy Archibald

@Scott Dick

Each person will need to create their own FamilySearch account. If they are a member of the Church, they need to enter their Church Record Number when creating their FamilySearch account. This will populate their FamilySearch account with their information from their membership record.

In answer to each specific question:

1. In their own account, they should have their daughter listed. If she is also a member, her membership record should show her as deceased and attached to the parents in the Family Tree. The parent can request to do the daughter's ordinances directly through the system. Since they are her parents, they do not need any additional permission. If they need to have her sealed to them, they will coordinate with the temple president to have them (living) sealed to a deceased child.
2. She can do work for her husband's family through her account and with permission from her husband for any who were born in the last 110 years. Husband, if also a member, can have his own account and do his own family's work. Father of the daughter cannot do work for his son-in-law's family as he is not related to them. He is related to his daughter, but not her husband and his family.
3. Yes, just baptized member is encouraged to have their own FamilySearch account and to go to the temple immediately after their own baptism/confirmation to do baptisms/confirmations for their own relatives. Bishop will issue temple recommend for baptism/confirmation for this newly baptized member.