There is clearly a computer problem here because, in my observation, names which have all ordinances requested through the temple file do not proceed as quickly from endowment to sealing. I constantly have a lot of ordinances outstanding and update my file once a month with Family Insight, so I keep a pretty close eye on how fast they are progressing. A: When ordinances are assigned to the temple, they are done as the individual temple has time to complete them. It can take days or months, depending on how busy the temples are. There is not a method to determine how long it will take for a particular ordinance. When a temple needs ordinances, they will take the names that members assign to the temple before they take general extraction names. The system looks for ordinances in the following sequence: Individuals or records in that temple district. Individuals or records in other temple districts. Individuals or records contributed by the extraction program. When an ordinance has been completed for a name, the next ordinance is made available to the local temple and then to any temple needing a name. This process shortens the time between each ordinance. You may see the ordinances done in various temples around the world for the same person. I was under the impression that temple were only to download the number of names for each ordinance that they would have time to do. You wouldn't have the same names for every ordinances downloaded by a temple. And You might have many more baptisms downloaded than endowments depending on the temple traffic. If that is the case, then names submitted by members of smaller temple districts are at a distinct disadvantage. For example, in California, you might have many converts to the church or people who descend from convert families which might generate many more family names that areas like Logan which have a membership with high pioneer ancestry and fewer new family names. The busy temple of Utah could subsequently process the family file names more quickly. Q: Does anyone know how soon they are going to return all those Legacy names and names that have been stalled for 5 years to the ready position? A: By Legacy do you mean those submissions by individuals who have not yet claimed Legacy, or your own submissions? If they are unclaimed Legacy submissions by other patrons and you can figure out who it is, you can contact them or do research to see if they are deceased. If you can find that it is a deceased patron, you can send Feedback to [email protected] and request that they be released because the patron is deceased. If they are your own Legacy submissions, you can claim them. There is not a time limit at this time but The Brethren are taking it into consideration. I meant Legacy as in someone submitted the name during Temple Ready or before and there is a contact "name" but there is no contact info and it might not even be a name...further it might be some very distant cousin relationship. Since submission, often 5-20 years ago, work has stalled. It leads one to believe that the patron is deceased, inactive, or lost the slips or interest in completing the temple work. But if you lack "proof," they will not release the names. We weren't even allowed to claim Legacy for our brother serving a mission in China so we could clear up names and prepare further work. They said..he has children..they have the right to Legacy. None of them was interested. "Legacy" should be eliminated so records can be updated and completed. Q: The endowments which we were discussing seem to take a varying amount of time. As I said earlier, I am waiting on the endowments for names in the general temple file from over 18 months but some I just assigned to the general temple file in the past month are being processed for their endowments. A: In 2009, the way temple ordinance reservations were processed caused some to be pushed to the bottom of the list. As a result these 2009 submissions never move forward, while others submitted later are finished before them. The result is that these ordinances are hung up in the system. Due to the number of records affected by the problem, an engineering solution is unfeasible. To resolve the problem you must unreserve and then re-reserve these ordinances. This will resolve the problem and put the ordinances back in the proper order to be completed. Male endowments are known to take time. Then there are the thousands upon thousands of names which were converted to "in progress" or more currently "Family Search" or "Unknown" when the temples took the cards on hand in their cupboards and transferred them to NFS back in 2007-2008. I still have an 8 page print out of names waiting to be released from that limbo. :-) Michele Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message