ARE ORDINANCE READY NAMES REALLY READY?

What is necessary before a family name is ready for Temple ordinances?

1. You might want to check whether the name you intend to submit is your relative or somebody else's with the same name. While this might provide you a name, the other family might be quite upset to find somebody outside of THEIR family did the temple work. It's the same reaction we have when somebody changes our family tree with bogus information.
2. Equally important is checking for duplicates. The Temple work may already be done but on a duplicate name. When beginning my mission I inadvertently created a duplicate of myself. Later I went to the escalation department to get it corrected. They did! And announced that there were 19 other duplicates. There are a lot of duplicates out there.

The question really is whether the new app, Ordinances Ready, is really ready. While it generates a lot of enthusiasm, are the names really yours or are they duplicates? Ron Tanner, Senior Product Manager at FamilySearch, talked about Ordinances Ready in his annual Rootstech "What's New Talk". He listed six sources for Ordinance Ready names. They are:

1. Pulled from your own reservation list
2. Pulled from your own names that you have shared with the Global Temple List
3. Pulled names from people with whom you are related from the Global Temple List
4. Pulled from names found by searching up and down your own family lines (green icons)
5. An ancestor from the Global Temple List

It will also do the following:

• Ignore people who are subject to the 110-year rule
• Verify that the name qualifies for temple ordinance work
• Verify no possible duplicates

My personal opinion is that qualifying family members for Temple ordinances is not a race to see how many you can get, but to make sure that ALL of the members of your family receive the ordinances.