Provide Notice if Prerequisite Ordinances Not Complete

Dave Moehle

I just printed out two ordinance cards for H/W sealing. They were suggested by Family Search as available to be sealed. I did some digging in Family Search before performing the ordinances and found that NONE of the prerequisite ordinances had been completed. If the program is going to make suggestions, it should at least give a warning or notice that prerequisite ordinances have not yet been completed.

Gordon Collett

The recently updated help center article for Ordinances Ready states:

A deceased husband and a wife can be sealed together prior to their individual ordinances being done. Deceased persons can be sealed to parents, even if the parents’ prior ordinances are not complete. Members should not perform the parents’ ordinances unless they are related. (https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-find-family-names-for-the-temple-with-ordinances-ready )

The last sentence is in reference to the fact that we are to complete sealings to parents for spouses of our relatives but we are not to perform any ordinances for those spouse's relatives. (You should seal your great-uncle's wife to her parents, but you should not do any ordinances for her parents.)

Jane Cantrell Brookman

This is the new guidance.