Lesson # 8 Submit to Temple

Eight Steps to Submit names for Temple Ordinances

BUT BEFORE YOU SUBMIT - REMEMBER

Let us, therefore, as a church and a people and as Latter-day Saints, offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness; and let us present in his holy temple, when it is finished, a book containing the records of our dead, which shall be worthy of all acceptation." (D&C 128:24.)

In your own records, or if you download a new GEDCOM from someone else’s research always

1. Print Reports- File- Print Report - Reports and Charts then choose “lists” tab then print -

a. possible problems - correct all real problems

b. possible duplicates - match merge all duplicates

c. unlinked individuals -put them in a family or make a separate file for unlinked persons, then delete them from your file.

c. LDS Incomplete ordinances

d. LDS Incomplete Marriage

2. Using PAF Family Insights or Roots Magic correct all places and expand all truncated jurisdictions; such as; cites, counties, parishes, & countries or states. Remove all co. from county jurisdictions such as ,Wayne co., North Carolina.. Place cemetery name in Notes, putting only jurisdiction in burial places. Note Family Insights now performs this in a better manner. Caution! The counties need to reflect time period in which event occurred. Family Insights IS NOT time sensitive.

3. Anchor all women to a family or a marriage ( if married and her maiden name is unknown add her married name ie; Mary to Mrs. Mary Jones . However do not add husbands name to a wife with no first name or other data. Also do not add Mr. Or Mrs to a child‟s parent if you have no other information,.ie; Mary Hardy‟s father as Mr. Hardy and/or Mrs. Hardy. This causes too many duplicate ordinances. ( in PAF go to “search “ put dot in “ Individuals” go to beginning of list to find unlinked females)

4. Merge - Duplicate individuals

New Family Search

5. Submit directly from program at home to the temple

____________________________________________THEN !!!!! ________________________________________

1.. Backup your updated database or Restore it to your previous database on your computer

(When it asks you if you want to replace existing file say yes )

2. SHARE -:Upload your new and now corrected database to www.newfamilysearch.org. Also share to Roots and/or Ancestry.com for example, to help others and to connect with others working on you family.

3. SET NEW RESEARCH GOALS * Print out all unqualified persons in print report at time of submission at the FHC and start here for your new research to fill in information needed for temple ordinances.


PLEASE PLEASE research and add better information for “about” dates and estimated places. This may be your some of the best contribution you can make to your genealogy