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Ordinances

This is a collection of help articles regarding ordinances.

  • Someone reserved ordinances for my close relative
  • Can I do a person's temple work before the 30-day waiting period is over?
  • Can I do temple work for victims of the Jewish Holocaust?
  • Ordinances reserved between 2007 and 2009 are not completed
  • Family Tree does not show the temple ordinances that I completed recently
  • How do I use Family Name Assist?
  • My ancestor was sealed to the wrong parents
  • A person who reserved ordinances has died, is incapacitated, or had a withdrawal of membership
  • How do I request proxy temple ordinances for a friend?
  • Sealing-only relationships
  • How do I print a family name card without my name?
  • How do I correct how my name is printed on family name cards?
  • What do I do when temple ordinances were done for the wrong sex?
  • How do I resend the email to share a family name?
  • How does sharing family names with my ward and stake work?
  • How do I request ordinances for an ancestor who was born in the last 110 years?
  • Where can I find the names that I have reserved, printed, or shared?
  • Can I request ordinances for people who lived before A.D. 200?
  • "Unknown" or "FamilySearch" reserved ordinances for my ancestor
  • The ordinance date in Family Tree does not match what is in my personal records
  • How do I contact a member who reserved family names in Family Tree?
  • Someone did ordinances for my immediate family member
  • I can't print my family name card using a Family Ordinance Request
  • I did not receive an email about my reservations ending
  • Can I do temple ordinances for an unconnected person that I added to Family Tree?
  • What do the different temple icons and statuses mean?
  • What do I do when reservations are about to expire?
  • Using the Family Ordinance Opportunities experiment
  • How do I reserve ordinances when I have a yellow temple?
  • Clarified temple submission features
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