find names for the temple

Family Locket Genealogists at Rootstech 2020

Feb 13, 2020

Are you going to be at Rootstech 2020 in Salt Lake City? If so, we’d love to visit with you in person. For the first time, Family Locket Genealogists will have a booth in the Expo Hall for the entire conference. We have some exciting things planned to help you in your genealogy and family history endeavors. Research Like a Pro Meet-up and Research Like a Pro Ribbons Collecting ribbons for your conference name tag...

Using Ordinances Ready to Discover New Research Opportunities

May 12, 2019

In the Fall of 2018 FamilySearch introduced a feature for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints called Ordinances Ready. Ordinances Ready is designed to help church members complete temple work that has already been shared with the temple system by other members around the world. Ordinances Ready works by searching up your tree for 15 generations, then searching back down the tree. Simply stated, Ordinances Ready performs automated descendancy research, finding...

In-Home Activities Prepare Children for the Temple: An Interview With Mike Sandberg of FamilySearch

Mar 12, 2019

During RootsTech, Nicole and I had the opportunity to sit down with Mike Sandberg from FamilySearch and learn more about the new In-Home Activities page that he and his team designed. This was a project that took two years to develop. It all began with a council about the best way to get families involved in family history. Elder Ian S. Ardern of the Seventy suggested that “it all starts with a conversation.” Figuring out...

Find Names Facebook Group

Jan 31, 2019

If you feel overwhelmed at the prospect of trying to find names for the temple, you are not alone. Maybe you have a very full tree with many early members of the Church. You may have tried the new ordinances ready feature, but there were no available names for you. I’ve worked with many people with full trees and helped them find names with my process. Those with full trees must do descendancy research on...

Find Names for the Temple with the Puzzilla Research Log

Dec 29, 2018

Here’s a scenario that I hear all the time. Does this sound familiar? You decide to dedicate an hour to family history research. You sit down at the computer and make a goal to find names for the temple. You open FamilySearch and find an ancestral couple that you researched several years ago. You do some descendancy research and pull up their Puzzilla descendancy tree. You look at the FamilySearch profiles of several 3rd cousins. It looks...

Find a Name Scavenger Hunt for Children

Oct 12, 2018

Children can help their families find names for the temple and learn how to navigate the FamilySearch Family Tree at the same time! Here is a worksheet for children to use as they search for icons in FamilySearch. I made this worksheet for a one-day family history camp for children at the Tucson Family History Center. My friend organized the event for the primary children in her stake. This was just one of the stations...

From Stumped to Confident: Learning to Find Names for the Temple

Oct 5, 2018

“I’ve gone from being completely stumped as to how to find names for the temple, to not only being confident that it can be done, but more than a little amazed at how many research opportunities there are on my tree!” Today I’m excited to share a guest post by reader DoriAnn Haskins, who also blogs at Baby Steps. She has read our book, Find Names for the Temple: A Step-by-Step Method for Success, and shared...

Find Names for the Temple Part 7: Repeat the Process

Sep 20, 2018

When you have completed the entire process of finding names for the temple, you will probably, at some point, want to find more names. The next time you do the process, it will be easier, because you have already made a list of ancestors to research! If you are working with a full tree and doing descendancy research, go back to your “List of Ancestors for Descendancy Research.” Select another one of the candidates for further...

Find Names for the Temple Part 6: Reserve Temple Ordinances

Sep 13, 2018

Now that you have added new relatives to FamilySearch Family Tree, attached sources, and ensured there are no duplicates, you are ready to reserve temple ordinances. To view previous posts in this series, click the links below: Part 1: Review the Accuracy of Your Tree Part 2: Analyze Your Pedigree Part 3: Analyze Descendancy Trees Part 4: Research Part 5: Record Your Findings Part 6: Reserve Temple Ordinances To view all the articles detailing each step,...

Find Names for the Temple Part 5: Record Your Findings

Sep 6, 2018

Recording what you found is an essential part of the research process. You should record the information in your own notes, FamilySearch Family Tree, and your personal genealogy database, (i.e. RootsMagic, Family Tree Maker, Ancestral Quest, Legacy Family Tree). To view the other parts in this series, click the links below: Part 1: Review the Accuracy of Your Tree Part 2: Analyze Your Pedigree Part 3: Analyze Descendancy Trees Part 4: Research Part 5: Record Your...