Temple Submission Guidelines

Do not use a Family Ordinance Request if :
     A- A living person wants to be sealed to their parents, children and/or spouse.
     B- A living person wants to perform the work for a deceased parent, sibling, spouse or child.
Call the temple and make an appointment with them to do live sealings.  They will need to coordinate the information on any live person involved with church records.  If you bring a complete, up-to-date family group sheet it will assist them in their coordination.

For all other submissions, follow these guidelines to meet church standards and reduce the duplication.

Step 1 - Look up each of your ancestors you wish to do work for in new.FamilySearch.org.
     A- Check for duplicates.
     B- Using your Personal Ancestral File (PAF) and primary source documentation, add information to your family names.
     C- Edit incomplete or incorrect information you submitted.
     D- Reserve family names you wish to do the ordinances for.   

Step 2 - Enter additional names from your records into new.FamilySearch.org and reserve the temple ordinances.

Step 3 - Go to Family Group view and print out and review your family information for accuracy and completeness.
     A- Look for clerical and spelling errors.
         Are places and dates complete?
         Is gender correctly identified?
     B- Is the data complete and accurate?
         Have available primary source documents been used to obtain or verify family information?
         Might some missing information be obtained from family members.

Step 4 - Do a FamilyInsight (you may use RootsMagic, Legacy or AncestralQuest) check for Ordinances and additional information.

Step 5 - Prayerfully select names to submit for temple ordinances.
     A- Do not submit names found on the Internet, or from other secondary sources without careful checking and verification.
      B- Do not redo ordinances because the genealogical data in new.FamilySearch.org contains an error or is incomplete.
      C- Do not submit names of persons born in the last 95 years who are not listed on your pedigree chart, such as aunts and uncles, without the permission of their direct  descendants.
      D- Do not submit individuals who are less than 110 years of age unless you know they are dead.  Don’t assume they are dead. If a proxy ordinance is done for a living person, it is invalid. Even worse, it prevents a valid ordinance from being done after the person dies.
      E- Remember your first responsibility is to those people whose names are on your pedigree chart and their children.
      F- If you have reason to believe an ancestor may have been baptized, endowed, Born In the Covenant or sealed in life, do not redo the work for them before searching other records.

Step 7 - The Temples prefer ordinances be completed within 3 months of a submission.
       A- Prepare and submit 50 names or less at a  time.  The Jordan River Temple prefers 20 names or less.
       B- Print all the names you wish to clear at this time on one Family Ordinance Request (FOR).  Do not submit each name on a separate sheet.
       C- When you are finished creating the FOR and before leaving the center, record the ordinances you have cleared in the Temple Submission Notebook.