Does anyone know the policy on doing temple work for excommunicated members after they have died?  Thanks

Janet wrote: Does anyone know the policy on doing temple work for excommunicated members after they have died?  Thanks This is the current statement in New FamilySearch: Document ID: 103448 Temple ordinances for deceased individuals who had their names removed from Church records while they were living or were excommunicated Problem Excommunicated members or those members who had their records removed need to have ordinances restored or reinstated by the First Presidency for families to see them on NFS or for additional ordinances of sealing to take place. Resolution If your ancestor had his or her name removed from Church records while living and you would like to do his or her temple work, you must be directly related and write a formal letter to the First Presidency requesting permission to perform the work. This applies both to individuals who requested to have their names removed and to those who were excommunicated. Temple work for deceased excommunicated members does not follow the same process as for deceased individuals who never accepted the gospel during their lives. The excommunicated individual needs a "restoration of blessings," since the ordinances were completed at some point. The handbook states: "First Presidency approval is required to perform temple ordinances for deceased persons who, at the time of their death, were excommunicated or had their names removed from Church membership records" (Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1: Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics, 88). All requests for rebaptism after an individual dies should be addressed to: Office of the First Presidency 47 E. South Temple Street, Room 103 Salt Lake City, UT 84150-1000 You will need to wait until the person has been deceased for at least a year before you send in the request. You also will need to include a family group record, which contains all the identifying information about the deceased individual. If the temple ordinances for the individual have already been done by someone else, the ordinance information should remain in the new FamilySearch and will show as "not available." Hope this helps, Jill Crandell

The ones who were of very serious nature, are usually handled through the Temple Department. There were many instances the First Presidency would authorize restoration of ordinances, not needin to re do. Otherwise, it is still requested through the bishop to start the process. David Samuelsen Janet Nielsen wrote: > Does anyone know the policy on doing temple work for excommunicated members after they have died? Thanks

The Ancestry Insider blog this morning has some very interesting information about NFS and Family Tree that was given by Tim Cross at the FamilySearch Developers Conference. It speaks to a lot of questions that have been discussed on this list. You can read it at: http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/2009/03/familysearch-developers-conference_19.html<http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/2009/03/familysearch-developers-conference_19.html> Doris Bateman

The Ancestry Insider's blog this morning has a widget he has created which lists all the records the church has put online through the FamilySearch Indexing program; and links right to them. Much easier than going through Labs or FamilySearch.org. http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/latest-record-search-collections.html<http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/latest-record-search-collections.html> It also has a similar list of all the records at ancestry.com. I really enjoy the blog. If you don't subscribe, you might want to check it out. Doris Bateman

Doris, You can go right to Record search at: pilot.familysearch.org Then you can click on the region you would like to search. The ones with red stars are new collections or additions to a collection. Kathy Portland, OR On 4/14/09, DORIS BATEMAN <Jenealogist66@msn.com> wrote: > > The Ancestry Insider's blog this morning has a widget he has created which > lists all the records the church has put online through the FamilySearch > Indexing program; and links right to them. Much easier than going through > Labs or FamilySearch.org. > > > http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/latest-record-search-collections.html > < > http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/2009/04/latest-record-search-collections.html > > > > It also has a similar list of all the records at ancestry.com. I really > enjoy the blog. If you don't subscribe, you might want to check it out. > > Doris Bateman >