Checking for Completed Ordinances and Submitting Names to the Temple Essential Steps to Avoid Duplic

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Checking for Completed Ordinances and Submitting
Names to the Temple Essential Steps to Avoid
Duplication of Temple Ordinances
Reno Nevada Temple
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Where do I check?

• The Ordinance Index at the
• Family History Center
• AND
• The Online Ordinance Index at www.familysearch.org

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The Ordinance Index

• Lists the dates and temples for ordinances
  performed in behalf of deceased persons.
• Baptisms
• Endowments
• Sealings to Parents
• Sealings to Spouses

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Why search both the OI and the Online OI?

• The Ordinance Index on CDs in Family History
  Centers has not been updated since March 2000.
• The Online Ordinance Index is updated weekly by
  temples. It can only be accessed by LDS members.

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3-Step Process to TempleReady with Personal
Ancestral File

• 1. Run Update My Records in TempleReady for
  Windows.
• 2.Manually check the Online
• Ordinance Index.
• 3.Run Submit Family Names for
• Temple Ordinances in TempleReady for Windows.
  

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Step 1 Update My Records

• This step checks the names you select from your
  PAF database with completed ordinance data in the
  Ordinance Index. If there are matches, it
  automatically inserts and updates the ordinance
  data in your PAF database. Then you import the
  updated data into your PAF at home.

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How To Update My Records

• Take a backup of your PAF data restore the file
  on a TempleReady for Windows computer at the
  Family History Center.
• Open TempleReady for Windows select Update My
  Records open your PAF file.
• Select the names to check with ?in boxes.
• Decide if a match is the same person in your
  file.
• Make a backup of your updated PAF file restore
  on PAF at home.

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Step 2 Check the Online OI

• This step enables you to update your records with
  the latest completed ordinances and minimize
  duplication. It includes all of the OI data from
  the Family History Center plus up-to-date
  ordinance data submitted by temples. The Online
  Ordinance Index is searched manually for each
  individual.

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How To Access the Online OI

• Enter www.familysearch.org
• Click Sign On to start.
• If registered, enter username and password.
• Check I am a member Sign On
• If not registered, check I am a member click
  on If you are a new user
• Follow directions by adding your LDS membership
  number confirmation date (from ward clerk).
• Return to home and click on Search.

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How To Search the Online OI

• Search by hand for each individual. Check name
  variations.
• Scroll through all search results.
• For multiple listings, the record with the temple
  code is the primary ordinance.
• Copy, print or download completed ordinance data.
• Add this updated ordinance data to your records.

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Before the Next Step, Dont Forget

• To check with other family members who may be
  requesting this work on the same ancestors.
• To contact the temple if you find completed
  ordinances on an individual who has a printed
  temple card, so they can delete or change it in
• their database.

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Step 3 Submit Names to the Temple

• There are two steps to submit names to the temple
  after checking for completed ordinances
• First, you need to prepare a PAF disk with the
  names you select and bring it to the
• Family History Center. (PAF Class)
• Second, you need to prepare a TempleReady disk at
  the Family History Center with the names you are
  submitting.
• If you dont have a computer, you can do both at
  the Family History Center.

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How To Prepare a TempleReady Disk from PAF

• Take a backup of your PAF files to the Family
  History Center. Select the number of names you
  can complete in a couple months.
• Take at least one blank, formatted disk or take
  two if you want a backup or working copy.
• Restore the file in PAF open TR for Windows.
• Select Submit Family Names for Temple
  Ordinances.
• Follow the instructions on the screen to select
  names to submit and check and correct records.

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How To Prepare a TempleReady Disk from PAF

• Decide if a possible match is the same person.
• Designate proxies (you or the temple).
• Print copy of temple submission report.
• Save submission. Add blank disk to A drive.
• Obtain Temple Submission label from Family
  History Center.
• Make backup or working copy of disk.
• Take or mail the disk to the temple.

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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, 88