Temple work

Who in the 12 or 70, has the responsibility for adjustments and changes to temple ordinances, ie endowment, film etc ?

Everyone at the general authority level with whom I have spoken has told me that temples are strictly the provenance of the First Presidency, and that anything the Twelve do relating to temples is by specific assignment from the Presidency.

Well that a non starter then. It's back to lots more fasting and praying for the Temple work bottleneck to open up wider.
With finding family history speeding up at a magnificent rate, missionary work and converts are not keeping up and Temple attendance rate isn't as quick, it would be great if the endowment and film could be shortened significantly like it has in the past along with other necessary change to other ordinances.

I wonder what the duplication rate is these days.

Besides the duplications, it also takes 13 years to do a male endowment from the time a name is first submitted to Temple file before the work is done. Unless you do it family file, then it's up to you.
During the millenium maybe the only work done will be clearing up the back log of male Temple endowments.

I spend the majority of my spare time researching, attaching source documents, merging duplicates, and joining families. I can do that anywhere and anytime. I only reserve and print as many family file cards as I can do in one month. Others are welcome to do the temple work I don't have time to do.

rushworths wrote:Besides the duplications, it also takes 13 years to do a male endowment from the time a name is first submitted to Temple file before the work is done. Unless you do it family file, then it's up to you.
During the millenium maybe the only work done will be clearing up the back log of male Temple endowments.

We can now request release of names reserved by others that have been sitting in limbo for over 2 years. Perhaps one day we can do the same for names that are stuck in the temple file. As we are supposed to seal the parents together before we seal the children to them, the temple file is potentially holding up generations of other work, especially now that more people are doing family names than ever and the temple file names are not being completed as quickly.

And, yes, I have submitted that as feedback on a FamilySearch survey that was sent to me.

Tech suggestion.
Swipe card required for proxy work. Scan or swipe/wave the card and the endowment is done, then same for sealing. That would reduce time. All done on a recommend card.

....tongue in cheek

We had magnetic stripes on our recommend holders back in the late 1970s, but they didn't last long. We swiped in the name issue booth, and then swiped again at the veil to record the completed ordinance. I think there were too many technical issues.

drepouille wrote:I think there were too many technical issues.

I think the underlying issue is that back then the church recorded the "by whom" for all work, including temple work. The mag stripe system was a way to automate that. Once that requirement was eliminated, the need for the equipment disappeared. That happened the same time the "by whom" was dropped from the membership records.

I also suspect that the mag stripe was coming due for a technology refresh. This was still pre-IBM PC days, so the stuff was expensive.

Does anyone know where it suggests that an individual's temple file should be kept at a reasonable number - rather than amassing hundreds of names in your file?
Thanks,
Sherrie

Some reasons are listed in a FamilySearch article here (login with your FamilySearch account may be required to view): https://www.familysearch.org/help/sales ... 65&lang=en

On thing it mentions is a technical limitation in the FamilySearch software if your temple file becomes too large.

I'm not sure as size matters as much as getting it done in a timely manner. They will lose names if they're in there too long.

russellhltn wrote:I'm not sure as size matters as much as getting it done in a timely manner. They will lose names if they're in there too long.

The FS article indicates the application fails with 800 names in the temple file list. I cannot imagine how anyone will have that many, but...

I did a quick check a few months ago, and the highest number of reserved family file names I could find in my ward was 287.