Family Name Assist for Temple and Family History Consultants

Article Id: 26849
October 23, 2024
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Overview of Family Name Assist

The Family Name Assist experience is a simplified way to help members easily prepare names for a temple baptistry experience. The goal is to help the member focus on the Spirit and have a wonderful first experience in the temple. Where possible, please attend the temple with the member.

Note: Temple and family history consultants may be invited by a bishop or other priesthood leader to help a new member, youth, or nonendowed member to prepare names using Family Name Assist.

Family Name Assist is NOT:

  • An opportunity to add multiple generations of the member's family to the Family Tree.
  • The time to research and add sources to people in the Family Tree.
  • The time to learn about all the features of the FamilySearch website.
  • The time to have a discovery experience.

All of the preceding experiences are great things to do but should be part of a different experience and approached according to the member's needs.
For more information and a video, please see the Family Name Assist page here.

How consultants can assist the member with a temple baptistry experience

After the member's temple recommend interview, temple and family history consultants may be invited by a bishop or other priesthood leader to help a new member, youth, or nonendowed member to prepare names using Family Name Assist. The person invited to help will receive a message with a link to assist the member. This link is also available here.

The Family Name Assist tool helps you to do the following with the member:

  • Sign in to FamilySearch.
  • Prepare a family name using a simplified family name card preparation experience.
  • When family names are not available, other names are found through Ordinances Ready.
  • The name is automatically reserved, with options to print the card.
  • Assist the member with temporal and spiritual baptistry preparation.
  • Schedule a temple appointment.

Others Can Use the Family Name Assist Tool

The steps in this article focus on Temple and Family History consultants, but there are other ways to access and use this tool, depending on your calling:

  • Bishops and Branch Presidents: When in the Leader and Clerk Resources (LCR) program, bishopric members or branch presidents with temple recommend stewardship can find the Family Name Assist tool under the Membership menu and Temple Recommends menu as part of the proxy baptism recommend process.
  • Ward council members: The Family Name Assist tool is found under the Leader and Clerk Resources Temple menu, by clicking Help Member Print a Family Name.
  • Members: New members, youth, or nonendowed adults can access Family Name Assist here.

Additional Family Name Assist Resources

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