New FamilySeatch Shared Family Groups Feature
FamilySearch has a new feature that allows you to share temple ordinances with your family.
With the new family groups feature, you can easily share temple reservations with family groups and collaborate with your relatives on temple and family history work.
In a shared family group, you can:
Share your reserved
ordinances with the group.
Send messages to all
group members at once.
For further details, see https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/shared-family-groups-feature
Ordinances Ready remains the usual method of printing ordinance cards for deceased family members. Ordinances Ready will find ordinances needed by deceased people:
1. in your temple
reservation list,
2. that you have shared with the temple,
3. your
relatives that others have shared with the temple,
4. relatives with
“green temple” icons,
5. unrelated people.
Ordinances Ready has been expanded to include ordinances shared to your family group members.
The Shared Family Groups feature can be a special blessing to families where certain individuals have reserved hundreds or thousands of ordinances. We have been discouraging that practice, as it can block family members from doing these ordinances, and it obscures who is doing the temple work. With shared family groups, those with huge lists of temple reservations have another way to share them, and the family members who are doing the temple work are recognized, because the system tracks who is printing the ordinance cards.
(In contrast, if Grandma prints hundreds of ordnance cards and distributes them to family members, she is shown as the only one doing the temple work, which is not accurate.)
