A recent posting on the home page of FamilySearch.org refers to this. It may be confusing, as the article it points to in the FamilySearch blog is from last year. Oops!
But the November-December time period is when Temple Reservations have expired in recent years, so we expect it will happen soon.
What Happens:
Ordinances reserved prior to 1 May 2016 will be released.
Exceptions:
1. Any ordinance for that person has been completed since 1 May 2016. (This re-sets the clock.)
2. The ordinances have been shared with the temple.
Note:
If you have printed a card but the ordinances have been released the card remains valid. But just before using it, check that no one else has printed a card for the same ordinances. If they have, please destroy your card to avoid duplication of ordinances.
For further information, please click the link above.
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Ordinances Ready
Ordinances Ready
A recent addition to the FamilySearch Family Tree mobile app is Ordinances Ready. It allows you to quickly find a few family names to take to the temple. The basic concept is to provide you with enough to accomplish during a single visit to the temple. So you can print cards for up to: 5 baptisms and confirmations, or 5 initiatories, or 1 endowment, or 5 sealings to spouse or 10 sealings to parents. And you are allowed 90 days to complete them, or they revert back to their previous status. This tool is for hastening the work, not for reserving large numbers of ordinances that never get done. I like it. To print additional cards for youth baptisms, I need to sign in as a Helper. Or have the youth print out their own cards.
From Ordinances Ready you can print the temple cards, or give the 16-digit number to the temple office and ask them to print the cards.
A web-browser based version of Ordinances Ready can be tried out on the Temple tab at https://beta.familysearch.org/ When the beta testing is completed, we expect it to be available at https://www.familysearch.org In the meantime it works in the iOS and Android versions of the Family Tree mobile app.
Tip
For the latest information, a good source is Ron Tanner's video blogs. He is the general manager of the FamilySearch Family Tree. https://www.facebook.com/pg/familyhistoryron/videos/
Ron's blogs gave me additional information on using Ordinances Ready, beyond what is given in the
knowledge article Using the Ordinances Ready feature to easily find names for the temple (542303)
A recent addition to the FamilySearch Family Tree mobile app is Ordinances Ready. It allows you to quickly find a few family names to take to the temple. The basic concept is to provide you with enough to accomplish during a single visit to the temple. So you can print cards for up to: 5 baptisms and confirmations, or 5 initiatories, or 1 endowment, or 5 sealings to spouse or 10 sealings to parents. And you are allowed 90 days to complete them, or they revert back to their previous status. This tool is for hastening the work, not for reserving large numbers of ordinances that never get done. I like it. To print additional cards for youth baptisms, I need to sign in as a Helper. Or have the youth print out their own cards.
From Ordinances Ready you can print the temple cards, or give the 16-digit number to the temple office and ask them to print the cards.
A web-browser based version of Ordinances Ready can be tried out on the Temple tab at https://beta.familysearch.org/ When the beta testing is completed, we expect it to be available at https://www.familysearch.org In the meantime it works in the iOS and Android versions of the Family Tree mobile app.
Tip
For the latest information, a good source is Ron Tanner's video blogs. He is the general manager of the FamilySearch Family Tree. https://www.facebook.com/pg/familyhistoryron/videos/
Ron's blogs gave me additional information on using Ordinances Ready, beyond what is given in the
knowledge article Using the Ordinances Ready feature to easily find names for the temple (542303)
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Missing Apps and Missing App Gallery
A few weeks ago the FamilySearch App Gallery became the Solutions Gallery. The link at the bottom of most screens takes us to the re-designed page. https://partners.familysearch.org/solutionsgallery/s/
What is the difference? Presumably it allows the scope of offerings to be expanded beyond apps. But in the short term, about 30 apps have ceased to be available there. This includes some favorites such as Find-a-record, and All-the-stories. According to the information at findarecord.com, a change to the FamilySearch API (application programming interface) makes it too costly to conform to the new specifications. That is really unfortunate. I hope that new Solutions will become available to fill the gaps, but old favorites will be missed.
One popular use of find-a-record was to find family names to take to the temple.Some other apps for that purpose seem to have vanished as well. But there is something new. Check out the Ordinances Ready function in the Family Tree app.
What is the difference? Presumably it allows the scope of offerings to be expanded beyond apps. But in the short term, about 30 apps have ceased to be available there. This includes some favorites such as Find-a-record, and All-the-stories. According to the information at findarecord.com, a change to the FamilySearch API (application programming interface) makes it too costly to conform to the new specifications. That is really unfortunate. I hope that new Solutions will become available to fill the gaps, but old favorites will be missed.
One popular use of find-a-record was to find family names to take to the temple.Some other apps for that purpose seem to have vanished as well. But there is something new. Check out the Ordinances Ready function in the Family Tree app.
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Some Current Issues
As of mid-October, some patrons are experiencing these issues;
1. Unable to view the new Person page. WindowsXP/Vista may be able to view the Person page when using Firefox even if it is not visible in Chrome. Older Macs may need to use Family Tree Lite to view the new Person page. https://familysearch.org/tree/lite This should work for other older computers that cannot view the new Person page.
2. The Submit button on the ordinance request form does not activate. This usually occurs when requesting ordinances under the 110-year policy. Try putting data in every possible field and removing parentheses from the phone number. (Even if the system puts them there.)
3. If the system does not allow you to edit the sex of a record, do a screen shot of the screen, then remove all relationships from the wrong-gender record, edit the sex and then add the relationships, using your screen shot for reference. Another alternative is to delete the wrong gender record and create a new record eith thr correct gender.
4. With the introduction of the new Person page, there arrived a new popup blocker that prevents doing searches from the Person page using ancestry.com, findmypast.com and MyHeritage.com. I am unaware of a connection between the two items, but there might be one. Please see the screen shot below.
1. Unable to view the new Person page. WindowsXP/Vista may be able to view the Person page when using Firefox even if it is not visible in Chrome. Older Macs may need to use Family Tree Lite to view the new Person page. https://familysearch.org/tree/lite This should work for other older computers that cannot view the new Person page.
2. The Submit button on the ordinance request form does not activate. This usually occurs when requesting ordinances under the 110-year policy. Try putting data in every possible field and removing parentheses from the phone number. (Even if the system puts them there.)
3. If the system does not allow you to edit the sex of a record, do a screen shot of the screen, then remove all relationships from the wrong-gender record, edit the sex and then add the relationships, using your screen shot for reference. Another alternative is to delete the wrong gender record and create a new record eith thr correct gender.
4. With the introduction of the new Person page, there arrived a new popup blocker that prevents doing searches from the Person page using ancestry.com, findmypast.com and MyHeritage.com. I am unaware of a connection between the two items, but there might be one. Please see the screen shot below.
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