Expiration date on family file cards
Many stake members and temple friends have lost names because they expired before we could get to the temple to do them. It has occurred to me that if the expiration date were printed on the Family file card we would be able to complete them in a more timely manner. Maybe where the date printed is you could put the expiration date. I feel certain this would help. Thanks for your time.
Sincerely,
Jenna Carey
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This has been suggested many times. You can search in the Community to see other discussions. One of the longest such discussions, which includes comments about some of the concerns with this suggestion, can be found here: https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/134392/there-should-be-an-expiration-date-on-the-ordinances-cards
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It would help sooooo much if the expiration date of the ordinance would be printed on the card. I go to the work to do that on all the cards I print so I know which ones to do first before they expire. It would save so much time.
Otherwise when I give the baptism cards to my grandchildren, who think they will get them done soon and then they don't within the 4 months----ordinances get done from the printed card, which have already expired and gone back to the temple and been done by someone else in the meantime.
I know it is good to check the cards before going to the temple, but 90% of the people or more, do not do that or even know how. They are too busy or uninterested to learn right now. They just want to be given a family card and are willing to do the ordinance. And that is great--they are still doing FH/Temple work and getting the blessings.
It would decrease duplication even more and make their time in temple service count, if they could easily see if a card has expired. Then their time would be spent helping a different person on the other side of the veil.
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Mod note- similar suggestions have been merged here.
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Is it really difficult to hand write the exp date (ex: 12/20= Dec 20th) on each card; maybe even written in red? No matter who the card gets shared with (ex: grandchildren), they could see the date. Verbal communication is an added measure of assurance that they know the exp. date. I don't know if FS. programmers will put a priority on printing the exp date on the cards. Meanwhile, just my opinion, it seems a quick task to hand write the date on the card. This is what I've been doing for years and I know it works. 'Haven't lost a reservation yet and done over 3000 ordinances in about 3 1/2 years; a lot of those cards were shared with others.
There is also a "Soon to Expire" notification added (I think through the bell icon) that can be helpful in managing reservations. It seems that FS is trying to help, even if it's not adding the exp date to the printed cards.
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