Expiration date changes for reserved ordinances; and Shared with temple ordinances being undone
I am a sealer in the Provo City Center Temple. About five years ago I began keeping a spreadsheet for ordinances I've shared with the temple for relatives. This spreadsheet contains the name, PID, and ordinances to be shared with the temple. I have two concerns:
1). Several months ago this year I wrote down the ordinances expiration date for relatives I had previously shared with the temple, but for whom someone else subsequently reserved. For example: I shared the temple ordinances with the temple for Chester Arthur Hoefer LB61-H6N on 16 March 2020. On 22 March 2020 his baptism and confirmation was reserved by another person. A few months ago, this other person's reservation was set to expire June 24, 2022. When I look at Chester Arthur Hoefer's ordinances today (2 days after the expiration date of June 24), his baptism and confirmation expiration date has been advanced to September 24, 2022! Why is that? I have noticed this continual advancing of expiration dates on dozens of the relatives I have previously shared with the Temple going back to 2017. Can this advancing of the expiration date be stopped so that I can perform the ordinances?
2). Also, as a side note on this issue, I have well over 100 relatives for whose ordinances I shared with the temple from 2017-2019, and even into 2020 that are being left undone. It appears to me that these people's submissions are no longer included in the shared names that are being printed out by the temple for proxy work. What I am seeing on the printed shared temple names sheets and in my own records are names that have been submitted more recently, say 2020-2022. For the names which I shared with the temple going back to 2017, is there a way in which I could have those names with their PIDs brought forward so that their work can be done?
Thank you,
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Answers
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Expiration dates have been extended because temples were affected by Covid restrictions.
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and temple closures, FamilySearch is temporarily suspending all temple ordinance expiration dates until all temples have reopened.
- Reservations for temple ordinances will not expire until all temples have resumed pre-pandemic operations.
- An expiration date less than 90 days in the future will be extended to 90 days. Once all temples reopen, the person holding the reservation will have 90 days to complete the ordinance.
- An expiration date that is scheduled more than 90 days in the future will be automatically rescheduled, day by day, until all temples reopen. This means that if a particular reservation expires in 100 days, the 100-day period won’t begin until all temples reopen.
See the Church newsroom for the most recent updates on temple reopenings.
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You can message the other user who has reserved the temple work and see if they will unreserve it so that you can now do it.
Also, users are running Ordinances Ready and obtaining ordinances from the shared temple list based on how they are related to the individuals, not by the timeframe on how other users have shared names to the temple list. As more members bring family names to the temple, the temple doesn't need to pull names from the shared temple list as often.
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I should have mentioned that I posed my question after not receiving a response from the other user asking him to unreserve.
My issues have more to do with the time frame of my own submissions taking place 4-5 years ago and not being queued up to be printed out on the temple proxy ordinance sheets. Proxy ordinance sheets currently being printed in the temples seem to be predominantly from share-with-temple submissions made 1-2 years ago, without regard to those submitted 3-5 years ago. So my primary concern is that submissions I made in 2017 through 2020 are not being included in temple proxy sheets being currently printed.
Earlier today I received a very good explanation from someone else in FamilySearch as to the cause and of plans to rectify the situation in the near future. Thank you for trying to help me understand.
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