Great blessings come from providing temple ordinances for our kindred dead. What follows are important updates to some of the tools, resources, and processes being developed to hasten this important, eternal work.
We hope these adjustments will make it simpler and easier for Church members to participate in family history and temple service, as well as share the joy that comes from serving ancestors. Watch this post for continued updates to temple ordinance reservations.
Recent Updates
In your My Reservations temple list, you can now select up to 50 rows to print, share, or unreserve your ordinance reservations, even if the…
When Ordinances Ready searches the Family Tree to find temple opportunities, it tries to find the available ordinances that are most relevan…
The waiting period to perform ordinances for recently deceased family members has been reduced from one year to 30 days. For more informatio…
Starting in November 2021, personal temple reservation lists will have a new maximum of 300 rows per FamilySearch user. This update is inten…
As the world recovers from the effects of the COVID-19 virus, some temples are moving into the third phase of the Church’s phased reopening …
Until recently, all family name cards included the patron’s contact information to the right of the ordinances. Now, it is optional to inclu…
Based on helpful feedback for the temple list filter, FamilySearch has created two new filter options and a filter count. These updates will…
When you visit FamilySearch and see a green temple icon with a small clock on it, the ordinance reservation you are looking at was previousl…
The colors for temple icons in the Family Tree have been simplified to make it easier for people to identify family names and reserve ordina…
The Temple menu on FamilySearch.org is being updated. With this update, you can more easily see the ordinances you have reserved and those y…
Older Updates
In addition to the Ordinances Ready feature, ordinance reservations that have been shared with the temple can now be requested through the F…
Recently, the Temple menu on FamilySearch.org was updated with a simpler design, and the Help Others menu option was removed to make it easi…
Ordinances Ready is an automated service that searches FamilySearch.org and the temple reservation list to identify ancestors needing temple…
When temple reservations expire, they are automatically shared with the temple and made available to other relatives through Family Tree and…
Ordinance reservations require a date for at least one of the vital events of the person’s life (such as a birth, death, or marriage). Famil…
You can now use your phone in the temple office to print ordinance reservation cards using a QR code or ID number found in the Family Tree a…
