Within a family group, you can easily share ordinances with family groups and collaborate with your relatives on temple and family history work.
Each FamilySearch user can be a member of up to 10 family groups. That can either be groups that you create and invite people to or groups that you have been invited to join.
In family groups, you can:
- Invite up to 500 FamilySearch users to join.
- Collaborate on memories and Family Tree work by sending messages to all group members at once.
- Create a family group tree that you share with living relatives.
- Collaborate on temple work by sharing reserved ordinances with the group.
- Collaborate on historical document review projects.
How do expiration dates work in shared family groups?
Ordinance expirations resumed on 31 January 2023. Ordinances shared with a family group expire as normal. Check your reservation list to see the expiration date of each name.
- The person who reserves the ordinance and shares it with the group has 2 years to complete the ordinances.
- The person who reserves the ordinance from the group has 120 days to print the card and complete the ordinance.
How do names shared with family groups affect Ordinances Ready?
Ordinances Ready pulls names that are shared with the group and offers them to group members.
Can helpers print names from a family group's shared reservations?
In order to maintain privacy within family groups, helpers cannot access the family groups to which the user being helped belongs. This means helpers cannot view a group's shared reservations and print family name cards from that list.
Family groups are a great place for families to work as a united team, which includes helping each other learn and use FamilySearch and resolve issues. Knowledgeable family group administrators can perform an important role in their families by helping with this help and training.
Family groups are a great place for families to work as a united team, which includes helping each other learn and use FamilySearch and resolve issues. Knowledgeable family group administrators can perform an important role in their families by helping with this help and training.
Do I need to maintain different groups for sharing reservations and sharing a family group tree?
No. You can have one family group that both shares reservations and a shared family group tree. If you already have a family group that shares reservations, you can simply turn on the family group tree.
Can a ward or stake use a family group to share reservations?
Wards and stakes can create family groups to share reservations, but they do not have to. Ordinances Ready already distributes reservations shared with the temple by members of the ward or stake to other members in the same ward or stake.
If a ward or stake creates a family group, the group administrators should not turn on the family group tree option. Members of a ward or stake are not typically closely related enough to be part of the same family group tree.
If a ward or stake creates a family group, the group administrators should not turn on the family group tree option. Members of a ward or stake are not typically closely related enough to be part of the same family group tree.
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