Green Temple Icon

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Virginia Sue Davis said: The new Green Temple icon slows down researchers. When you see the icon you take the time to check what ordinances need to be done which is fine if you plan on doing the ordinances. If you are trying to find those whose ordinances have not been requested at all this really slows you down. Other than that the new icon are Great!

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Tom Huber said: Welcome to the community-powered public feedback forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We all share an active interest in using the resources of this site and as users, we have various levels of knowledge and experience and do our best to help each other with concerns, issues, and/or questions.

This has been hashed and rehashed over and over.

Consider how a non-member (who cannot see the temple icons) does their descendancy research.

Consider Jim Greene's advice:

We are no longer in a position where names submitted to the temple is more important than to have the ordinances performed. Therefore, while not changing the meaning we are changing the emphasis of the green temple. We need to think of it as "This ordinance is available for temple work to be performed." It does not mean "This ordinance is ready to be requested/reserved or submitted/shared with the temple." (This clarified statement was made by Jim Greene on June 17th.)

For a more complete explanation about who made the decision and why, see Jim Greene's two major posts which are in the https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea... discussion from June 12th, 2020, and the https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea... discussion from the weekend of June 13th-14th, 2020. The statement about the emphasis being changed appeared in the https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea... discussion on June 17th.

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Christine said: Virginia, I wonder if part of the purpose IS to slow down a bit. There are many who see those green temple icons and simply reserve and share without doing any real research or checking to see if duplicates already exist, if there are research hints or problems with the record (for instance I found a person who needed to be sealed to a spouse, except she died before he was born and lived on a different continent and was never married to him - incorrect merges had combined two women of the same name who married men with the same name), or if there are missing parents, spouses, or children that a little bit of research will uncover. In other words, unless we really check the records we are often missing a great deal of accuracy and opportunity and sometimes really miss experiencing the joy of learning to know and love our ancestors.