Your goal is to reserve family names and receive ordinances in behalf of these relatives in the temple. Depending on what a person’s family tree looks like, there are different ways you can help him or her succeed.
If the member’s tree is small, the Temple Opportunities page may display ordinances ready to be performed. Or, you can look on the pedigree for a green arrow next to the temple icon.
If the member has a full tree, help him or her identify an ancestor whose descendants need temple work.
Using the traditional pedigree view in Family Tree, show where to find temple icons, and discuss what they mean: request ordinances, more information needed, ordinances in progress, and ordinances complete.
Click a name to show the summary card. Discuss the ordinance abbreviations shown.
Discussion Question: How do I know if someone needs ordinances? Look for the icons or indicators for requesting ordinances.
Question: After I have reserved ordinances, what do I need to do? You need to print a Family Ordinance Request. This form lists the ordinances you plan to perform at the temple. You take this printed form to the temple where temple staff will print the ordinances cards.
Discussion Question: If ordinances have been completed for all of a person’s direct-line ancestors for several generations, what can he or she do to find temple ordinances that are needed? You can search for descendants of an ancestor who may need temple ordinances. You can look at the children in a family to see if there are gaps of several years between birth dates. These gaps may indicate a missing child who you might easily find by searching records.
understanding temple reservations
How can I check my progress?
What do the different colored blocks mean?
How do I share a name? (demonstrate)
What can I do to get the work done faster? (stake file, ward youth baptisms, etc)
What do the different colored blocks mean?
How do I share a name? (demonstrate)
What can I do to get the work done faster? (stake file, ward youth baptisms, etc)
Family History Is about Hearts before Charts (Feb 18, 2014)
Past approaches to family history work in the Church have resulted in less than 3 percent of members submitting names of ancestors for temple ordinance work.
To reach the other 97 percent, we need to change how we think, how we teach, and what we teach.
in the United States 25 percent of Church members do not have four generations of ancestors in the Family Tree section of the Church’s FamilySearch Internet site. Internationally, 70 percent of members don’t have both parents in Family Tree, 90 percent don’t have their grandparents in it, and 95 percent don’t have their great-grandparents included.
Elder Packer drew an analogy from travelers needing a passport and credentials to enter a country and explained that a “spiritual passport” is needed for entering the kingdom of God. Like individuals waiting in immigration lines without a passport and desperately seeking help, persons who have died rely on their descendants who are Church members to provide for them the spiritual passports and credentials they need, Elder Packer said.
“Start by touching their hearts with stories and pictures of their ancestors to help members have a spiritual experience to feel the spirit of Elijah.”
Elder Packer spoke of obstacles to doing family history work that over the years have become fixed perceptions in the minds of people, and he said that even though most of the actual obstacles have been eliminated, the perceptions remain. Among these, he said, are that family history is only for old people to do, that all the work on an individual’s ancestral line has been done, that there are no more records to research, and that one must have a lot of technical knowledge.
taken from Elder Packer's talk at RootsTech 2014
To reach the other 97 percent, we need to change how we think, how we teach, and what we teach.
in the United States 25 percent of Church members do not have four generations of ancestors in the Family Tree section of the Church’s FamilySearch Internet site. Internationally, 70 percent of members don’t have both parents in Family Tree, 90 percent don’t have their grandparents in it, and 95 percent don’t have their great-grandparents included.
Elder Packer drew an analogy from travelers needing a passport and credentials to enter a country and explained that a “spiritual passport” is needed for entering the kingdom of God. Like individuals waiting in immigration lines without a passport and desperately seeking help, persons who have died rely on their descendants who are Church members to provide for them the spiritual passports and credentials they need, Elder Packer said.
“Start by touching their hearts with stories and pictures of their ancestors to help members have a spiritual experience to feel the spirit of Elijah.”
Elder Packer spoke of obstacles to doing family history work that over the years have become fixed perceptions in the minds of people, and he said that even though most of the actual obstacles have been eliminated, the perceptions remain. Among these, he said, are that family history is only for old people to do, that all the work on an individual’s ancestral line has been done, that there are no more records to research, and that one must have a lot of technical knowledge.
taken from Elder Packer's talk at RootsTech 2014
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