Kathy wrote: As a consultant who is in the process of starting members, old and new, off onto nFS, would it be a wise thing, when the moment arises, to suggest to them that they limit the number of their requests for doing the ordinance work? Following are the current instructions in New FamilySearch: Guidelines for Reserving Ordinances As you reserve ordinances, be aware of a few guidelines. * Reserve ordinances only if you feel reasonably sure that you can get them done. It is recommended that you reserve only enough ordinances for a few trips to the temple. * Before you reserve ordinances for individuals who were born in the last 95 years, please get permission from the closest living relative. The closest living relatives are, in this order: spouse, then children, then parents, then siblings. * There is no limit on the amount of time that ordinances can be on your reserved list, but try to get them done in a timely manner. * If you have many ancestors who need ordinances, we recommend that you do not print large numbers of family ordinance cards to give to others. It is very easy for cards to be lost. And even though you can reprint lost cards, there is a risk that the ordinances will be done again if the original cards are found. Instead, we recommend that you add your ancestors to FamilySearch. Do not reserve the ordinances. Encourage your relatives to use FamilySearch to select and reserve the ordinances that they would like to do. Note: You can still print cards and give them to others, but we recommend that you print only small numbers to use in situations like these: o The people who help you with ordinances do not use the Internet. o The people who help you with ordinances live in a temple district where FamilySearch is not yet available. o People will help you with ordinances only if you give them cards. o If you reserve ordinances and then find that you cannot do them, please use FamilySearch to request that the temple provide the proxies for you. Hope this is helpful, Jill Crandell

Thanks Jill, that was a nice short cut answer to my query. Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill N. Crandell" <jncrandell@broadweave.net> To: <lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Time limit > Kathy wrote: > As a consultant who is in the process of starting members, old and new, > off > onto nFS, would it be a wise thing, when the moment arises, to suggest to > them that they limit the number of their requests for doing the ordinance > work? > > Following are the current instructions in New FamilySearch: > > Guidelines for Reserving Ordinances > > As you reserve ordinances, be aware of a few guidelines. > > * Reserve ordinances only if you feel reasonably sure that you can get > them > done. It is recommended that you reserve only enough ordinances for a few > trips to the temple. > * Before you reserve ordinances for individuals who were born in the last > 95 > years, please get permission from the closest living relative. The closest > living relatives are, in this order: spouse, then children, then parents, > then siblings. > * There is no limit on the amount of time that ordinances can be on your > reserved list, but try to get them done in a timely manner. > * If you have many ancestors who need ordinances, we recommend that you do > not print large numbers of family ordinance cards to give to others. It is > very easy for cards to be lost. And even though you can reprint lost > cards, > there is a risk that the ordinances will be done again if the original > cards > are found. > > Instead, we recommend that you add your ancestors to FamilySearch. Do > not reserve the ordinances. Encourage your relatives to use FamilySearch > to > select and reserve the ordinances that they would like to do. > Note: You can still print cards and give them to others, but we > recommend that you print only small numbers to use in situations like > these: > o The people who help you with ordinances do not use the Internet. > o The people who help you with ordinances live in a temple district where > FamilySearch is not yet available. > o People will help you with ordinances only if you give them cards. > o If you reserve ordinances and then find that you cannot do them, please > use FamilySearch to request that the temple provide the proxies for you. > > Hope this is helpful, > Jill Crandell > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message