Changing expiration dates for temple ordinances

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Ann Kersten said: Will FamilySearch update expiration dates on ordinances given the closing of temples for proxy ordinances?

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: Probably not. However, you can re-reserve the ones that are about to expire pretty easily.

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Amy Archibald said: Any ordinances that may be expiring in the next few months, you can re-reserve if they originally had a 2 year expiration. If the ordinances came via Ordinances Ready and the expiration happens before the temple is reopen, you will be able to run Ordinances Ready again for new ordinances to do. Ordinances via Ordinances Ready have 90 days until expiration. The dates are not going to be extended. You'll either need to re-reserve to reset the 2 year expiration dates or just let the 90 day ones expire and get new ones via Ordinances Ready once your temple reopens.

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Tom Huber said: The best advice for Ordinances Ready is to run them just before you start for the temple.

As to reserved ordinances, someone from FamilySearch will have to let us know what actions, if any, will be taken.

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Amy Archibald said: I already asked Ron Tanner this specific question yesterday from someone who was inquiring about it in a Facebook group. Ron said that if ordinances are near expiration that people will just need to re-reserve them.

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Amy Archibald said: https://www.facebook.com/familyhistor...

From Ron Tanner - 3.15.2020

"I know that COVID-19 is a sensitive topic, and one that is fearful and causing some big changes in our world at the moment. I know it is affecting not only how we work, go to school and interact with each other but it is also affecting how we think about things moving forward.

As you might be aware, all church meetings, temples and activities have been suspended until further notice. With that we have had multiple support emails coming through asking about a pause in regards to temple reservations with time limits.

At this time, we are not going to be activating a pause since we are suspecting the suspension of activities to be short. If you do have a record that is coming up on it's time limit we recommend doing the following.:

Go into that reservation, click on the PID, go to the person page, then on the ordinance tab unreserve the ordinance, and then immediately re-reserve it on that same page. Doing so will reset the clock and saving it for another 2 years. Please note that this will only work on standard two year reservations.

In regards to Ordinance Ready reservations, you unreserve or wait until it expires, then reclick Ordinance Ready to get the same ordinances - however, you might not get the same person.

If we do opt to put into place a pause on the time limit, we will make sure to notify you as soon as possible."

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Brett said: Ann

Good news ... in answer to your question ...

Here is a recent "Knowledge Article" in "FamilySearch" on the matter:

What happens to my ordinance reservation during the COVID-19 outbreak?

https://www.familysearch.org/help/sal...

Answer: "Yes", they will be extended.

Brett

ps: Just in case you had not heard ...

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