How does Ordinances Ready work based on the statement made in the 2023 Leadership training?
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I'd suggest you actually go in and look at it through FamilySearch. You'll see that Ordinances Ready will still show you each of the different ordinances available for your own family members. That has not changed. What's relatively new is that if you have no personal family members available, you'll still be given the opportunity to use relatives of people in your ward and stake that have been shared with the temple by the people who submitted those names. No one's family members are going to end up being "hijacked" by someone else because Ordinances Ready gave them to someone else to accomplish. Those additional options will only happen for the people that submitted the names for ordinances and chose to make them available for others to do (shared with the temples). It's just a nice feature that allows us to help others get their family members' ordinances completed at those others' requests. Basically, it's a way for wards and stakes to be able to cooperate in helping their own members get their ordinances done.
I'm not sure what you mean by "Are Family Groups now obsolete?", but generally nothing that you could do before is now obsolete - this has merely expanded the opportunities to have our family members' ordinances completed by others we know from our own wards and stakes - AND ONLY when we've chosen to share those ordinances with the temple. Someone that does a lot of research and cannot possibly do all of the ordinances personally for those resulting family members, always has the choice to share those names with the temples so that others going to a temple will be able to potentially help complete those ordinances more quickly. But only when they've been shared with the temple will anyone else get to complete those ordinances except the person who submitted them (during the time they're reserved).
It's always important to remember that the verification of whether a name provided by Ordinances Ready is really YOUR family member and not someone by the same name. Data from Ordinances Ready names is only as good as the research done by the person who submitted the name along with dates, places, sources, etc. I learned that there was another Melvin J. Quinn born in WEST Orange, NJ - just six days after and a few blocks BLOCKS from where my Grandfather's brother, Melvin J. Quinn, was born in Orange (not West Orange), NJ. Same names, similar city names, just blocks and only days apart. Someone on another family history website had members of each family mixed in together when they were living just blocks apart and were not closely related (if at all). So the information in FamilySearch is only as good as what's entered by imperfect people, and the computer algorithms can only work with what they see in FamilySearch. Just blindly accepting whatever is produced by Ordinances Ready will sometimes result in ordinances being done for people we aren't even related to, even as good as the computer algorithms are. Check those names and sources before taking them to the temple - they're quite possibly correct, but....
--Chris
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@Chris Bieneman Schmink --Very sage analysis and advice!
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Ordinances Ready could select your ancestors by using your account and PID as the starting point.
Ordinances Ready could select your ward's ancestors by using your account, membership number and ward unit number as the starting point.
Ordinances Ready could select your stake's ancestors by using your account, membership number, and stake unit number as the starting point.
How does Ordinances Ready determine who your family's ancestors are? Does that include your spouses' family? How indirect are the family relationships? Does Ordinances Ready actually just mine the Family Groups that you have joined to select your family's ancestors?
If there is another way in which Ordinances Ready selects your family's ancestors, does that then make Family Groups obsolete?
Family Groups have been a great way to share names with extended families and ward families and societal groups. But, most of those groups would now be addressed through Ordinances Ready and eliminate the other problems with sharing names and needing to re-share names and not being allowed to re-share names that occur when using Family Groups.
That was the point of the original question.
Leslie
FYI - There is no concern about hijacking or duplications or gold vs. bronze standard research. We merely had a ward member question the worth of using Family Groups with its re-sharing restrictions once a name has been removed from a Family Group.
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