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With the Ordinances Ready feature, you can be on your way to the temple, tap a button, and have family names ready when you arrive.
The Ordinances Ready feature finds enough ordinances for your next temple session:
- 4 or 5 baptisms and confirmations
- 3 to 5 initiatories
- 1 endowment
- Up to 5 sealings to spouse
- Up to 10 sealings to parents
Notes:
- If you decide not to perform the ordinances reserved using Ordinances Ready, please unreserve the ordinances. You cannot share ordinances found through Ordinances Ready with another person.
- A deceased husband and a wife can be sealed together before you do their individual ordinances. Deceased persons can be sealed to parents, even if the parents’ prior ordinances are not complete. Only perform the parents’ ordinances if you are related.
Steps (website)
- Sign in to FamilySearch, and do either of the following:
- Go to the home page, and find the Ordinances Ready box.
- Click Temple, and click Ordinances Ready.
- Select the sex.
- Click an ordinance type.
- Look for a check mark next to the ordinances that you want to do.
- At the bottom of the screen, click Take to the Temple.
- A box appears with instructions on how to print your family name card. If you lack a printer, you receive a 16-digit family ordinance number.
- Write down the number, and take it to the temple.
- Click Continue.
- Print out the family name card if you have a printer.
- (Optional) Take some time to learn more about each person on the list:
- To see more about the person, click the person's name, and then click Person.
- To see how you are related to him or her, click View My Relationship.
Note: Ordinances have different icons, depending on how long they remain on your reservation list. The icon with a clock expires in 120 days. The icon without a clock means that the reservation expires in 2 years.
Steps (mobile app)
- In the Family Tree mobile app, open your temple list:
- Apple iOS: At the bottom of the screen, tap Temple.
- Android: In the top-left corner of the screen, tap the menu icon (3 lines), and then tap Temple.
- At the bottom of the screen, tap Ordinances Ready. If you do not see it, update your Family Tree mobile app.
- Select the sex.
- Select the ordinance that you would want to complete.
- Tap View People.
- You can deselect any ordinances from this list. Tap the check mark next to the individual's name.
- (Optional) Take some time to learn more about each person on the list. Tap View Person or View Relationship. Then tap the back arrow on your device.
- Tap Continue.
- Tap the option that you prefer:
- To send the cards to your printer, tap View Cards.
- Tap Save to Photos. Take your phone with you when you go to the temple. A temple worker can print the cards for you.
- (Optional) To set up a time to perform the temple ordinances, tap Schedule Temple Appointment.
Steps (Family Tree Lite)
The Ordinances Ready feature is not available in Family Tree Lite. Use the full FamilySearch website or the Family Tree mobile app.
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