Ordinances Ready

With the Ordinances Ready feature, you can be on your way to the temple, tap a button, and have family names ready when you arrive.

The Ordinances Ready feature finds enough ordinances for your next temple session:

  • 4 or 5 baptisms and confirmations
  • 3 to 5 initiatories
  • 1 endowment
  • Up to 5 sealings to spouse
  • Up to 10 sealings to parents

Steps (Website):

  1. Sign in to FamilySearch, and do either of the following:
    • Go to the home page and find the Ordinances Ready box.
    • Click Temple, and click Ordinances Ready.
  2. If you want to print cards for someone of the opposite sex from you, select the sex.
  3. Click on the ordinance type.
  4. Look for a checkmark next to the ordinances that you want to do.
    • At the bottom of the screen, click Take To The Temple. A box appears with instructions on how to print your family name card. If you lack a printer, you receive a 16-digit family ordinance number.
    • Write down the number and take it to the temple.
    • Click Continue.
  5. Print out the family name card if you have a printer.
  6. (Optional) Take some time to learn more about each person on the list:
    • To see more about the person, click the person’s name and the click Person.
    • To see how you are related to him or her, click View My Relationship.

Note: Ordinances have different icons depending on how long they remain on your
reservation list. The icon with a clock expires in 120 days. The icon without a clock
means that the reservation expires in 2 years.

Steps (Mobile App)

  1. In the Family Tree mobile app, open your temple list:
    • Apple iOS: At the bottom of the screen, tap Temple.
    • Android: In the top left corner of the screen, tap the menu icon (3 lines), and then tap Temple.
  2. At the bottom of the screen, tap Ordinances Ready. If you do not see it, update your Family Tree mobile app.
  3. If you want to print cards for someone of the opposite sex from you, select the sex.
  4. Select the ordinance that you would want to complete.
    • Tap View People.
    • You can deselect any ordinance from this list. Tap the check mark next to the individual’s name.
  5. (Optional) Take some time to learn more about each person on the list. Tap View Person or View Relationship. Then tap the back arrow on your device.
  6. Tap Continue.
  7. Tap the option that you prefer:
    • to send the cards to your printer, tap View Cards.
    • Tap Save to Photos. Take your phone with you when you go to the temple. A temple worker can print the cards for you.
  8. (Optional) To set up a time to perform the temple ordinances, tap Schedule Temple Appointment.

Where does Ordinances Ready get names?

  • Your family names list (or “temple list” or “reservation list”).
  • Family names that you shared with a family group.
  • Family names that have been shared with a family group that you belong to.
  • Your family names that you shared with the temple.
  • Names of people who are related to you that have been shared with the temple by someone else.
  • “Green temples” from your tree.
  • Your ward.
  • Your stake.
  • Names not related to you that have been shared with the temple.