The Ordinance Ready feature helps you find names easily for your next temple trip. The names provided could be from your own family, or names that other Church members shared with the temple.
Specifically, the Ordinances Ready feature looks in these places:
- Your family names list (or "temple list" or "reservation list"): names that you reserved in Family Tree. The names are on your family names list.
- Family names that you shared with a family group: names that you reserved and shared with a family group.
- Family names shared with a family group that you belong to: names that someone else shared with a family group that you belong to.
- Your family names that you shared with the temple: names that you reserved in Family Tree and shared with the temple. A temple has not yet printed the shared name, so Ordinances Ready feature unshares the name so that you can print the card.
- Names of people who are related to you. Someone shared the names with the temple: names in your tree and reserved by someone else. The person shared the names with the temple.
- "Green temples" from your tree: Ordinances Ready scans 10 generations of your ancestors and 5 generations of their descendants for incomplete ordinances. If you look in Family Tree, the names show green temple icons. Before giving you one of these ordinances, FamilySearch makes sure that no duplicates exist.
- Your ward: names that members of your ward shared with the temple.
- Your stake: names that members of your stake shared with the temple.
- Names not related to you that have been shared with the temple. If no ordinances are available from other sources, Ordinances Ready retrieves available ordinances submitted to the temple by any patron. The ordinances from the temple inventory are provided in the same order that they were submitted to the temple.
Ordinances Ready does not find names from a spouse's family tree. To print family name cards on behalf of a spouse, request permission to become that person's helper. Add the person to your Planner. From the Planner, you can use Ordinances Ready and print cards for a spouse.
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