Change amount in Ordinances Ready
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The article "How do I find family names for the temple with Ordinances Ready?" only says
The Ordinances Ready feature finds enough ordinances for your next temple session:
4 or 5 baptisms and confirmations
3 to 5 initiatories
1 endowment
Up to 5 sealings to spouse
Up to 10 sealings to parents
If you want to do more than what is offered, you will need to add more ordinances to your My Reservations list and print from there. @Gordon Collett made a great post about finding more ancestors that need work.
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I often schedule multiple sessions for a day at the temple (usually 2 endowments + 2 initiatories.) However, Family Search only allows me to print 5 names for the initiatory and 1 endowment. For the second sessions, I have to take my phone to the temple office, request more names on my phone, have the temple print them, and then cut them out and run back to the second session.
It would be a great improvement to be able to print names.... schedule an appt FROM FAMILY SEARCH and somehow tie that session & name(s) together so that if I repeat the process I would be able to get new names for my second session and tie the new names to the new session.
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If you already have ordinances reserved in your "My Reservations", you can print up to 50 cards at a time and "My Reservations" can hold 300 rows that can all be in a printed status. Just print the cards from "My Reservations" and not from "Ordinances Ready". If you don't already have ordinances reserved, you can work on adding new people to the tree through your research and reserve those individual's ordinances into your "My Reservations" list. Or you can review your family that is already in the Tree and see if there are ordinances you can reserve directly to your "My Reservations" list. "Ordinances Ready" has the limitation that you are describing. You don't need to use it to print ordinance cards if you already hold reservations.
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Is it possible to change the number from 4 to 6 persons when family search shows ready baptisms for you? Since you can always print 3 persons on one sheet of paper it would work perfectly with 6 persons and less paper gets wasted. Also it would be better to get baptised for 6 persons instead of 4 because family search won`t recommend new names till the work for the four persons is done. If you need less cards you can just unclick them. In addition I wanted to ask you if there is a possibilty to search for all ready baptisms in your family tree? This would be great. Thank you.
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If you already have ordinances reserved in your "My Reservations", you can print up to 50 cards at a time and "My Reservations" can hold 300 rows that can all be in a printed status. Just print the cards from "My Reservations" and not from "Ordinances Ready". If you don't already have ordinances reserved, you can work on adding new people to the tree through your research and reserve those individual's ordinances into your "My Reservations" list. Or you can review your family that is already in the Tree and see if there are ordinances you can reserve directly to your "My Reservations" list. "Ordinances Ready" has the limitation that you are describing. You don't need to use it to print ordinance cards if you already hold reservations.
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@Amy Archibald Thank you for your respond.
@everyone: Is there a way to search for all ready baptisms in your family tree? Then it would be easy to add them to "my Reservation list". I haven`t found this function yet. If this is the case I don`t need the "ordinances ready" function anymore and my question is obsolete. If this function doesn`t exist my wish still exists. Because if I dont have any more names in my reservation list and can`t find names ready for baptism I use the "ordinances ready" function to know which 4 names (unfortunately only 4) are ready.
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Marlene I have used a few ways to get more baptisms. One I have other family members do Ordinances ready, when my twins go to the temple, I get my 4 names, my husband might get 4 names and then each of the boys get 4. Also using the app you can filter the tasks list to temple ordinances but you have to review each to see if baptism is complete. Also you can go into Helper resources and in the consultant planner there is way to select yourself above the people you are helping and you can see hints and temple hints there for yourself. And the way I find best is look at your hints list, often those people need just a little research and they can be ready for temple ordinances. Look at the relatives for those you have done ordinances for and check their siblings, oftentimes they are waiting for ordinances as well. It just takes a little more time but you can find more names to take to the temple.
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@Marlene Suppan , the number of ordinances provided by Ordinances Ready is set by the Temple Department. FamilySearch simply implements the direction given by the Temple Department. I imagine that the Temple Department needs to balance its overall policies, the needs of temples around the world, the number of ordinances available in its inventory, the desired experiences for patrons in temples big and small, and many other issues. Saving some paper might be somewhere on that list, but I doubt that it is a significant factor compared with many more important issues. When Ordinances Ready was first released, the number of baptism/confirmation ordinances was 5, and the Temple Department later changed it to 4. I don't know why that occurred, but clearly paper usage was not a factor in that change.
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@Marlene Suppan asked: "Is there a way to search for all ready baptisms in your family tree?"
The simple answer is no, but to the extent that such a capability exists, it is already built into Ordinances Ready. The help article that explains where Ordinances Ready gets names provides some clues: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/where-does-ordinances-ready-get-names
The meaning of the term "in your family tree" is not at all clear. Is that your direct ancestors? How many generations? Your direct ancestors and their children? Does it include more generations of descendants of your ancestors? How many? Does it include spouses of your relatives?
When you read that help article, you'll see that two of the places that Ordinances Ready looks for ordinances are at least a partial match for your request to search in your family tree:
- Names of people who are related to you that have been shared with the temple by someone else. These names are in your tree and were reserved by someone else and then shared by that other person with the temple.
- "Green temples" from your tree. These are names that Ordinances Ready find by scanning 10 generations of your ancestors and 5 generations of their descendants for incomplete ordinances.
That second bullet point is one of the few places where FamilySearch actually gives a specific definition of where it looks for relatives in "your tree." But that definition only applies to Ordinances Ready -- don't assume that you can use it in other contexts in FamilySearch.
In summary, there isn't a simple answer to your question. But hopefully this gives you some clues. Ordinances Ready is intended to be a very simple way to quickly obtain some needed ordinances. But anyone who has more specific preferences is always welcome to do research and find as many relatives needing temple work as they would like.
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Thanks for the answers. You are right. The simple answer is no. I suspected it has something to do with the directions of the temple department. Still I dont really understand it because it would be very helpful and they can expect that people are self responsible enough that they don`t print more names than they actually need and are allowed to do. Since family search already has the function it could easily be implemented. But I am gonna satisfy myself with the fact that nothing will change.
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@Marlene Suppan When I don't have enough names, I use the names that are available at the temple. Some of those names have been on the temple list for quite a while.
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Here is another recommendation. Run Ordinances Ready for the ordinance type you are interested in and reserve the ordinance. Then go to the person page for each person you have now reserved. See how you are related to them. Then look at their siblings, spouse, children, parents. Do any of these people still need their ordinances? If you are related to them, then reserve the ordinances. This will give you more than Ordinances Ready provides. Then print them from "My Reservations". I did this example with 6 seminary classes last November and with one example we were able to find 50+ people still needing ordinances within just a few minutes.
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@Amy Archibald --EXCELLENT suggestion!! I have often used tool to find missing ordinances in family lines. Thanks for sharing/posting!
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Right now you can reserve 4 baptisms at a time with the "Ordinances Ready" feature.
When you print, it uses two sheets of paper since three cards fit on one sheet of paper.
I suggest fitting four ordinance cards per piece of paper. It will save a lot of paper.
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Mod note - several requests about the number of ordinances offered by Ordinances Ready have been merged here. Please read through the discussion as several suggestions for reserving more names have been made previously. Thanks.
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