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Where does Ordinances Ready get names?

Article Id: 1205

April 20, 2020

The Ordinance Ready feature helps you find names easily for your next temple trip. The names provided may be from your own family, or they may be names that other Church members have shared with the temple. Ordinances Ready finds names for you that are your **** (that is, male names for male users and female names for female users).

Specifically, the Ordinances Ready feature looks in these places:

• Ordinances Ready in your Logged in Home Page. This feature allows members to quickly access and schedule temple work for ancestors to be completed, including making an appointment with the temple through the widget.
• Your family names list (or "temple list" or "reservation list"). These are family names that you have reserved in Family Tree. They are on your family names list.
• Family names that you shared with a family group. These are names that you reserved and then shared with a family group.
• Family names that have been shared with a family group that you belong to. These are names that someone else shared with a family group that you belong to.
• Your family names that you shared with the temple. These are names that you reserved in Family Tree and then shared with the temple. They are on your family names list. As long as a temple has not yet printed a shared name, the Ordinances Ready feature can unshare the name so you can print the card.
• Names of people who are related to you that have been shared with the temple by someone else. These names are in your tree and were reserved by someone else and then shared by that other person with the temple.
• "Green temples" from your tree. These are names that Ordinances Ready find by scanning 10 generations of your ancestors and 5 generations of their descendants for incomplete ordinances. The ordinances have not yet been reserved by anyone. If you were to look in Family Tree, the name would have a green temple icon. Before giving you one of these ordinances, FamilySearch makes sure no possible duplicates exist for the record.
• Your ward. These are names that members of your ward shared with the temple.
• Your stake. These are names that members of your stake shared with the temple.
• Names not related to you that have been shared with the temple. If no ordinances are available from other sources, Ordinances Ready will retrieve available ordinances that have been submitted to the temple by any patron. These ordinances from temple inventory will be provided in the same order they were submitted to the temple. You can perform ordinances for these individuals to whom you may or may not have a direct relationship.

Note: Ordinances Ready will not find names from a spouse's family tree. If you would like to print family name cards on behalf of a spouse or some other individual you are helping, consider requesting permission to become that person's helper and adding his or her name to your Planner. This would enable you to use Ordinances Ready on his or her behalf.