printing relationship on temple cards
It would be a great enhancement if when printing temple cards out, for it to print the relationship to the owner of the card. This would help those taking names to the temple to feel the connection to the name on the card. For example, if I was printing out a card for a 1st cousin 3 time removed, somewhere on the card could read 1x3, or 1st 3x. Or if it was a great great great aunt, it might read ggga. Or for a 3rd cousin once removed it could read 3x1 or 3rd 1x. I have had several people also mention this idea and would love to have this automatically printed on the card. I know for most that have reserved the name, their information prints on the card. And to have the relationship of the person who's work is being done be on the card somewhere, like I said would be a great enhancement to the temple experience and make the person come more alive for those who take the names to the temple.
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If the relationship were to be added to the card, it should be as an Option for the card owner.
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@Blair Henderson Thank you so much for your suggestion for an enhancement to the temple cards. Your idea has been forwarded to the proper Project Manager.
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@Jane Cantrell Brookman Thank you! I appreciate it. I have had so many others wish they could do this on their cards. So many are left to look each one up and write it in some form if they want it on the card.
@Chas Howell I would agree and think it would be completely fine to at least have the option so if someone wanted it to be on their card they print, they could choose that option. So I would agree with you. It would just be nice to have that option.
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Wouldn’t the relationship only be true for the person printing the card? If I print and give a card to my child to do, it has the wrong relationship to the child on it. Could be confusing. If it was an option to print it, that would work better. If we don’t keep the cards anymore what difference does it make?
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@TeenaLoveland1, that's a good point, whose relationship should be given? If one person shares the card with the temple and another person gets that reservation from the temple and prints it. Would the relationship displayed, be of the person Reserving or of the person Printing? And yes the option to display the relationship on the card or not should be an option.
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Sometimes when I have grandchildren doing baptisms I have written the relationship of the person on the card to the ones doing the baptism but this only works if you have all grandchildren and not nieces and nephews. If you the card provider want the record for you it would be a nice temporary option as we don’t get the cards back anymore. Also, for the one doing the research, providing the cards, having the relationship on it would show us wife of cousin whose family are in-laws and not related for sealing to parents after endowments are done. Therefore that person is unreserved for sealing to parent? By the way, is this correct? We don’t seal wife to her non relative parents? We leave her for the in-law family to finish? Is this totally confusing? Sorry.
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It would be awesome if the printed temple card had more info. Rather than doing baptisms for names on paper, consider how valuable this would be for youth to do baptisms for a distant cousin, great aunt or uncle, or great-great grand parent; i.e. show the relationship on the card, preferably in graphic form as it is on the website. If there is photo, show that too! Granted, there is not that much space on the existing card. So, make the card 50% larger and print two per page. And, provide an option to print just one per page with even more info, which might include a brief timeline.
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I totally agree with printing the relationship on the card for the person whose name is listed as the one who printed the card. I would also add that another option would be to print a photo of the person from a list of photos in the memory section if one exists. That way, not only would you know the relationship but have a picture of the person you are doing the work for and make it an even better temple experience.
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My husband added a similar idea yesterday (after searching but not finding this thread to see if it had been previously suggested). His suggestion though was to provide an option for printing the My Relationship image on the back of the temple ordinance cards. I think most people would find this to be a significant enhancement. I wouldn't need to be available for cards printed at the temple--just at home.
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I would like to suggest that the relationship, if any, be printed on the family card; such as, The husband of my 1st cousin seven times removed.
The font would be very small but would give the patron a relationship for the ordinance to be completed.
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My wife and I do about 40 Sealing-to-Parents and 10 Sealing Couples each week.
Sealers often ask - 'how are you related to this person' ... it is a lot of unproductive work to write relationships on the back of the cards - especially when our local Temples are not making receiving the Ordinance Cards once the work is completed an easy process and requiring us to print cards for each and every ordinance for each individual.
The relationship is an interesting factoid.
Since the address of the person has been surpressed from the printed card ... please consider printing the relationship somewhere - as real estate appears to be available.
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That is very interesting.
I do a great number of sealing also and I've never been asked how I'm related to the people whose names I've brought with me. This is just my (humble) opinion, but to have such a conversation with the sealer uses valuable time and I'd rather be doing the ordinances than chit-chatting.
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@Vince Fuller, could be condensed, I often abbreviate like, 1Cx7, GGF etc
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@LAHS6, one man's chit-chat is another man's spiritual experience.
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Since I am not the only one to suggest printing relationship on the family card, I would like to know if the original the January 19 from
@Blair Henderson Thank you so much for your suggestion for an enhancement to the temple cards. Your idea has been forwarded to the proper Project Manager.
will be implemented?
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@Vince Fuller thank you for asking. The suggestion has indeed been sent to the project manager. It is unknown at this time, if this suggestion will be implemented.
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