TempleReady

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TempleReady
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"All of our vast family history endeavor is
directed to temple work. There is no other
purpose for it. The temple ordinances become the
crowning blessings the Church has to offer.
President Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, May 1998,
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TempleReady is a FamilySearch computer program
that helps you prepare names for ordinances and
take them directly to the temple. It is
available at your local Family History Center.

• It will
• clear names
• create a TempleReady
• disk to take to the temple.

FORD 10-6-02
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Doing Ordinances for Your Ancestors Six Steps

• Identify your ancestors.
• Record their names.
• 3. Check the Internet IGI to ensure that temple
  work has not been previously done.

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Doing Ordinances for Your Ancestors Six Steps

• 4. Prepare a TempleReady disk
• and take it to the temple.
• 5. Do the ordinances.
• Record the completed ordinances in PAF.

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Before we learn how to use TempleReady, we
need to review temple submission guidelines!
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Guidelines for Submitting Names for Temple
Ordinances

• All names must be submitted by disk, using
  TempleReady.
• Do your own ancestors or close relatives (no
  celebrities or unrelated persons).
• Letter, 6 Apr 1995, Elder Boyd
  K. Packer
• Do temple submissions only from your records with
  data you have verified.
• let us present in His holy temple,a book
  containing the records of our dead, which shall
  be worthy of all acceptation. (D C 12824)

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Guidelines for Submitting Names for Temple
Ordinances

• Do not submit names of persons who lived before
  A.D. 1500 or were royalty.
• An individual must be dead at least one year with
  some exceptions.
• For ancestors born within the last 95 years, you
  should obtain the closest relatives permission.
• If you find misspellings or incorrect ordinance
  dates or places in the Ordinance Index, do NOT
  resubmit your ancestors name. The ordinances
  are still valid.

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Required Information

• Baptism and Endowment
• Ancestors name, sex, an event date and place.
• Event birth, christening, marriage, death,
  or burial
• Sealing to Parents
• Information required for baptism and endowment
• First or last name of father
• Sealing of Husband and Wife
• Name of husband (not necessarily the wife)
• Marriage date
• Marriage place

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Estimating Dates and Places

• May estimate dates based on other information.
• Abt 1820, based on 1850 Census showing the
  person as 30 years of age.
• Estimate a man was married at 25 and a woman at
  21.
• May assume places of residence based on a place
  where one member of family was born, died, lived,
  or where a husband and wife were married.
• of Sparks, Washoe, Nevada, USA
• Must have at least a country of residence.

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Always check for completed ordinances in the
Internet IGI at familysearch.org BEFORE you clear
names in Temple Ready.
Avoid duplication of temple work!
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TempleReady (TR) Clearance Methods

• Method 1 - PAF TR Submission Diskette
• Use your PAF or other genealogy program to
  prepare a GEDCOM to take to the Family History
  Center.
• Method 2 - Direct Entry of Names into TR
• Enter data directly into TR (DOS) at FHC - for
  those who do not have access to PAF.
• Method 3 - TR Selection of Names from PAF
• Run a copy of your PAF 5 database directly in TR
  for selection of names. (Windows)

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Exporting to TempleReady

• Click File.
• Click Export to TempleReady for Windows.
• Read the Temple Names Submission Box.
• Click Continue.

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Selecting Names for TempleReady Submission
1. Check sort by alphabetical list. 2. Highlight
the first person you want to select. 3. Select
the relationship you want to include. 4. Click
Select for each person/family you want to
include.
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Selecting Names for TempleReady Submission
5. Click on Show Results Only under Filtered
List. 6. Edit or add to selected names before you
export. 7. When done, click OK. 8. Select
submission options.
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Tips for Exporting to TempleReady

• The Selection Filter screen shows Qualified if
  data is complete. If not, it gives the reason.
• Read the Temple Names Submission Report. Can
  edit, add to or correct before exporting.
• When done, export the file to disk (Drive A),
  name the file and print report from Notepad.
• Names are not cleared yet! Take the temple
  submission disk and two floppy disks to the
  Family History Center to clear.

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TempleReady for Windows Screen
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Possible Matches - Already Completed Ordinances
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Temple Phase
1. Send or take the TR disk to the
temple. 2. Temple prints 3x5 ordinance cards
for you to use in any temple to do the
work. 3. Keep your Family Names Tracking
List.
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Tips for Temple Phase

• Must do ordinances in order baptism,
  confirmation, ordination, initiatory sealings.
• Cards are stamped and returned to you for a
  primary source of completed ordinances.
• File cards alphabetically in recipe box.
• Track to whom you gave a card dates of
  completed ordinances on Tracking Record.
• Update PAF with completed ordinances.

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Tips for Temple Phase

• Keep the size of your TR submission to the number
  of names and ordinances you can complete within
  six months.

For more help 1. Read A Members Guide to
Temple and Family History Work, pages 10-17. 2.
See Help/Lessons/Sharing Files/Screens 12-13 in
PAF. 3. BYU Free Tutorial http\\ce.byu.edu
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  "One of the most thrilling results of being
involved in family research and genealogical
research is becoming intimately acquainted
with our ancestors - their challenges and
achievements - and then showing our gratitude
by performing for them the ordinances that
will allow them to obtain the greatest of
all gifts the gift of eternal life."

Elder David B. Haight, Ensign, May 1991, 77
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As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints it is our divine responsibility
to identify our deceased ancestral family and
provide the saving temple ordinances for them.
After much thought and prayer, President Wilford
Woodruff made this historic statement     "We
want the Latter-day Saints from this time to
trace their genealogies as far as they can, and
to be sealed to their fathers and mothers. Have
children sealed to their parents, and run this
chain through as far as you can get it. . . This
is the will of the Lord to his people, and I
think when you come to reflect upon it you will
find it to be true."
(Millennial Star, 28 May
1894, 339)
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• Created by Cindy Newell, Sparks Nevada Stake
• Revised January 4, 2004
• Lessons compiled from the following sources LDS
  Church Sources (www.261.byu.edu) TempleReady
  Donald Snow (www.uvpaf.org/classes) Liz Snow
  (www.ohanasoftware.com) Dawn Bushman
  (http//members.cox.net/dawnbushman1/ascending.htm
  l) and Jill Dyches, Reno Nevada Stake