Temple names submission
If you are not related to a family but have helped a descendant of that family, can you ask her for permission to submit the names to the Temple? She is not a member of the Church and I have not been able to find any members.
Betseylee Browning
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These groups are not very active these days, but since I haven't seen your question re-posted in the FamilySearch Help - Temple section, which you may still want to do, and since no one else in answering, I'll share my personal, completely unofficial thoughts.
If your friend has a couple of close relatives born less than a 110 years ago that she would like to have temple work done for, that would probably fall in the category of "Can I request proxy temple ordinances for a friend?"
However, for anyone born more than 110 years ago that you would not need permission anyway, I would think that your friend cannot give you permission to ignore the counsel we have been given and to ignore church policy to "Please reserve ordinances for individuals only if you are related to them."
It's great that you have been able to add your friend's ancestors to Family Tree and doing such research as is usually required does generally give us a feeling of knowing and being close to those people. However, people submitting names of non-relatives for temple work has caused a lot of hurt feelings and downright ill will towards the church through the years which is part of the reason for the repeated counsel to not do this.
Leave these relatives of your friend for her relatives to discover and do the ordinances for. For all you know, her 3rd cousin will be getting baptized tomorrow and will be thrilled and eternally grateful for the work you have done when she finds her family already well documented in Family Tree and has the opportunity to do the temple work for them.
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Thank you for your advise. I have one more thing I need your advise on. This woman is elderly and she wants to be related to royalty. Dementia might be the problem. Her descendants have been found by two other researchers and I have varified the info. I can enter the correct line can't I?
Betseylee
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We can do as much research as we want and enter just as much information as we want in Family Tree. It should be fully verified, documented, and sourced so that we can be sure it is as accurate as we can possibly make it. If the information you found is already in Family Tree, don't create any duplicates, just merge as needed to join existing lines. We just are not to submit ordinances for non-relatives.
Doing such research can be a great service to living relatives of those people when they come to Family Tree.
Do take extra care, however. Wanting to be related to royalty has led to many unsupported and down right falsified trees through the years.
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Thanks. Actually, this lady is related to peasants, but no one can convince her, even with proof.
Betseylee
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