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 ordinances in need of completion for people who are related to you. It is an amazing program that facilitates extended family members helping one another...
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 how to get more family members involved in conversations about their family was the first step. Brother Sandberg added that the job of doing family...
I'm excited to introduce our new guest blogger, Alice Childs. Alice is a temple and family history consultant for her stake in Highland, Utah. Her passion for helping consultants succeed led to the creation of her blog, Souls to Bless, where she regularly posts ideas and inspiration for Temple and Family History Consultants from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. - Nicole A few years ago, my daughter was assigned to complete the Meyers-Briggs personality test for a high school psychology class. After the students had completed the test, the teacher grouped the students according to personality types...
Janice Kapp Perry and her son and daughter, Steven Kapp Perry, and Lynne Perry Christofferson, shared their temple and family history music at BYU Education Week on Wednesday. It was a spirit-filled hour with experiences about temple work and uplifting lyrics sung by the talented Dallyn Vail Bayles and Tammy Simister Robinson. Many of the songs performed can be found on the Perry family's album entitled "As Temples fill the Earth." One of my favorite parts of the session was when Janice Kapp Perry led us all in singing "There is Love in My Family Tree," which was published in the...
Find Names for the Temple is available for purchase in paperback or eBook! To celebrate, we would like to share the eBook with you in exchange for a review on Amazon. If you are interested in reading a free PDF version of the book and trying the method, please contact me at nicole@familylocket.com. Reviews will help potential readers know if they want the book. Also, we value your opinions. We want to get the ideas out there and hear your feedback. Someday we will revise the method and edit the book for it's second edition! Let me tell you about how...
I am thrilled to share a project I have been working on for the last several months. It's a book for members of the LDS Church who want to do temple and family history work, entitled Find Names for the Temple: A Step-by-Step Method For Success. After I finished designing the interior and cover for our last book, Research Like a Pro, I vowed not to work on another book all summer. I took a two week break from thinking about books, went on vacation, and came back home feeling like I should work on this project. I worked on it at...
I have a great family history activity for children to share today - teaching children to find names for the temple by doing family history research with historical records! The activity was created by Alana Anderson. Alana lives in an LDS stake near me in Tucson. She is an activity day leader and did the Finding Franklin Time Machine Activity with her group. It went so well, that she decided to create a "Family History Mystery" activity to take it a step further with her own family, and share it at her stake activity days event. The girls and their...
At RootsTech in February, a reader pointed us to a new app for finding family names for the temple. It's called "Take A Name" by Kinpoint. I tried it out, and it's pretty great! Within about 15 minutes, the app scanned my tree and found 70 names and 174 ordinances. It also told me how I was related to each person, which I really like. I know many people who want to take their family member's names to the temple, but are overwhelmed by using FamilySearch to search for people. This app is a great way for the beginner...
