Request to Access Database that Conveniently Displays pre-1500s Ancestors Ordinance Data

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Matt Pinkston said: Thanks for making this available. Is there some way that we can view which ordinances have been done for ancestors born before the 1500s, I looked in the article "Can I do ordinances for people born before A.D. 1500?" and am trying to find sources for ancestors entered into FamilySearch from that time period. I would like to request access to such a database that shows whether the temple work has been done for people on FamilySearch, born before 1500. For example, looking at Thomas London, FamilySearch ID# G7N9-Z6P, I can't tell whether the work has been done or not. If I knew, then I can verify the line information with sources, which I would want to do, anyway, but know whether to ask FamilySearch if the names can be submitted for temple ordinances, or not, without having to burden you with the additional request.

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Chas Howell said: Just my own personal opinion. Time spent in this time frame will likely not be productive unless you are a real professional or very advanced expert in the pre-1500 field. Secondly, any temple work has more than likely been done several times over. There is a lot of very rewarding work to do much closer in.

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Matt Pinkston said: Thank you for your opinion, Charles. I am a professional genealogist. Attached is a list of my contributions. If FamilySearch wants to field requests, and process them in this way, it's their stewardship, and they get to account for it.

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Gordon Collett said: The database you are requesting is Family Tree. If work has been done for the individuals you are working on, it will be shown in Family Tree.

The difficulty, and what would then be the main focus of your research, is finding all the potential duplicates in Family Tree of, for example, your Thomas London, in the correct area and time period, then sorting out who is who, sourcing all the Thomas Londons properly, correctly merging those that really are duplicates, and getting down to just one copy of each of them. There could be dozens of duplicates created from the same or different sources with various creative ways of recording his name and other information about him, each with ordinances done at different times.

When you have completely documented that the Thomas London you imported via a GEDCOM file on 12 May 2020 without including a single source is a unique individual and not found anywhere else in Family Tree already, that is when you would contact support regarding completing ordinances.

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Jeff Wiseman said: A self-proclaimed "professional" genealogist who doesn't provide any source documentation?

What's wrong with this picture?

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Matt Pinkston said: Access to whether the work's been done for these possibilities, without having to submit them in order to know...that's all I wanted to know.

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Matt Pinkston said: Access to whether the work's been done for these possibilities, without having to submit them in order to know...that's all I wanted to know.