More than one endowment name
Many of us live a great distance from a Temple so spend the whole day there when we go. We would like to be able to do more than one endowment for family when we go but can only pull up one name for the trip. It would be great to be able to extract 2 or 3 names for each day at the Temple.
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Ordinances Ready only allows you to print one endowment at a time. However, you don't need to rely on Ordinances Ready. If you have ordinances you have reserved directly from the Tree, you can print them directly from "My Reservations".
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And if you don't have anyone on your personal reservation list then do what Ordinances Ready does.
It works by going up your direct line ten generations then back down five generations until it hits a direct ancestor or a descendant of a direct ancestor or the spouse of a descendant of a direct ancestor to find someone that needs an endowment. That means that you will be a relative of all descendants of the person Ordinances Ready gives you and all descendants of the parents, grandparents, etc of either that person or that person's spouse.
For example, checking Ordinances Ready right now gives me Engle Nerhovde. Looking at View My Relationship I see:
This shows that Engle is in the direct relationship path, rather than his wife, so I can do ordinance work for all the descendants of his parents. Sometimes the Ordinance Ready name will be the spouse so be sure you still look at the parents that are your common ancestor.
Going to Engle's father Gjert's Descendancy Pedigree Chart, I see this:
Seventeen people who need ordinance work done. Now some may need B/C/I and some may be sealings but this is certainly enough to keep you busy on your temple trip if you figure out a plan to get everything completed for a few of them. If not, then go back one generation to both of Engle's sets of grandparents and do the same thing to find even more names. Reserve the names you need to your reservation list and print out all the cards you want from there.
Using Ordinances Ready to get a starting name is more efficient than just browsing through your lines and checking random descendancy charts because it gives you a starting point for a patch of relatives that need work completed.
By the way, as you find these names for your temple trip, also take the time to go to each person's detail page and clean them up. On the screen shot above I can see four name that are not entered correctly. There is probably other data on most of the people in the chart that need improvement. And there are all those hints that need to be evaluated and attached. Those could add extra children to these families and give you even more names. For example, checking the hints on Elizabeth there are six for children that need to be evaluated to see if they are correct and really hers, added to Family Tree if they are, and have all their work done.
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