Great idea, Miles. Here we go. (There really is nothing new, except the recent change of the 95-year rule into the 110-year rule.) The first screen shows the following message: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FamilySearch: Church Policy Agreement Please read before continuing. Temple ordinances are sacred and should be treated with respect. Please make sure that you do the following as you submit these ordinances: * Abide by Church policies. [ ] I have read and will comply with the above statements. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The expression "Church Policies" is underlined in blue. When clicking it, the following message is displayed: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Persons Born within the Last 110 Years To do ordinances for a deceased individual born in the last 110 years, you must either be one of the closest living relatives, or you must obtain permission from the closest living relative. If you are not a spouse, child, parent, or sibling of the deceased, please obtain permission from the closest living relative before doing the ordinances. The closest living relatives are, in this order: an undivorced spouse (the spouse to whom the individual was married when he or she died), an adult child, a parent, or a brother or sister. Restricted Submissions Church members should not submit individuals that they are not related to (with the exception of close friends as provided in the full policy statement). This includes: Famous people. Those gathered from unapproved extraction projects. Jewish Holocaust victims. Members cannot do the ordinances for these people except under the following conditions: They are an immediate family member of the deceased (defined as parents, spouse, or children), or They have permission of all living immediate family members, or They have the permission of the closest living relative if no immediate family members are living. To view additional policies, please click on the following link: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Mensagem Original----- From: Miles Meyer Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] new temple ordinance guidelines? I think that if someone would copy the instructions/agreement that we all click "I Agree" to when we prepare temple names we would have the answer as to what the policy is. I am at work so I can't do it right now. But since the letter is a reiteration of the current policy it should have the answer. My understanding is that we can do the work for our ancestors/in-laws and extended trees as long as we follow the rules (birth year, closer living relatives, etc). I have noticed that if someone selects a name which may fall within those, i.e. born within the last 110(?) years, another window pops up asking you if you have contacted the closest living relative or are you the closest living relative. You have to chose one of the options before you can move forward. By this time, if you are doing a restricted name, you would have had to "lie" twice about your intentions in order to do the work for non-relatives. As far as I am concerned, there is nothing new here. The rule was put in place to attempt to stop people from harvesting names of non-relatives against their families wishes. Too many people are doing work for people like Daniel Pearl, the Pope, and even living people. I even had a member say that Michael Landon came to them in a dream and asked for his work to be done. So they did it - for the 17th time! Miles Meyer 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