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How do we access it? Labs doesn't seem to have it.

Labs is saying no current projects as of today. I've used it in the past, is it gone for everyone else?

Excellent, Robert! Thank you.

Thank you for going to all this trouble! I am in the FORT WORTH TEXAS STAKE. Is there a new app that we need to download? Bob Haire

Great job! Thank you❤

I was disappointed in the derogatory approach you presented regarding those who had submitted non-direct persons. You could not know for sure that they had the "attitude" you suggested. Further, they may have had permission from both living and those who had passed away to do work for those lines who belonged to other's direct relationships. Please be more kind about his in the future.

I'm addicted to church videos. These brothers are such a blessing to all of us! Muito obrigada!

This new way is giving me WAY more people to do temple work for. People I had no idea were my relatives. I don't have any ownership over persons I find - but I add them to Family Search so they are searchable for relatives. ( I really don't need more family members, I have 14 grandparents and their ancestors. 7 paternal and 7 maternal).

Thank you again for all the effort you put into every video!❤

Thank you for sharing your time and talents with us!😊

Thank Y♡U! Love all that you have shared ❤️

Personally I do understand the reason for this new policy and it make sense to me but at the same time here are my concerns. My family is from Ukraine. My brother and I are doing all the work for our side of the family. There are not many members of the church in Ukraine, especially now since the war started 3 years ago. In addition, there are not a lot of archive documents available. We are lucky to be working with approximately 5 different villages. And we have microfilms available and are able to add all the peope directly to Family search regardless if they are direct ancestors. Our direct line is pretty much done. We do know that eveyone was related to each other in those villages, they were military installations and people were relocated from northern parts of Russian Empire to the Southern borders. Anyway, since we are hastening the work, why can't we help those who need help? I am not speaking about the USA but rather about Ukraine in our case? The one thing I don't see the logic in is this: The names previously reserved by me get released to the temple system after the reservation date expires. And then... The temples pick up those names and the work is still getting done for those peope who were previously reserved by me. If I am not related to then directly and can't do the work for those people than why the temple system can do the work for them? Relatives didn't reserve the names but the work is still getting done. I hope it make sense. Quesiron #2: If the temple work is done for the direct line but we encourage the youth to bring their family names to the temple for baptisms - where can they find and reserve the names? What is motivating the yourh to do the temple work if they can't research and bring names for the baptisms to the temple? Especially the youth with pioneer heritage. Example - my niece went to the temple today for the first time and we had to work very hard to find any family names for her to do. We have 8 kids between my brothe and I. 5 of them go to the temple regularly to do baptisms - they want to do Ukrainian names. How can we encourage them to keep researching and taking names to the temple? Again, I understand the reason for this policy but at the same time there are so many flaws with it and counterproductive results. Thank you for reading 🙏❤️

Brother Givens, I live in the Mobile Alabama Stake and we have started using your videos for training. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I do have a question. What about someone who was sealed to her parents, and sibling. The stepmother became the children's mother {with a legal court record}. Then later at the age of 70 one of the daughters took a DNA test. The test showed that the father was not the biological father? DNA has really played havoc with the family tree. She now has a completely different family and family tree and is desiring to work on that biological line. Can she do temple work for that direct line?

Thank you so very much! This has definitely clarified many of my questions!

The system is messed up. Even my own name has me born to a step-father, not my real dad. I can’t get it fixed because the woman who submitted it is sure she is correct even when i tell her that i know who my own father is. If i submit birth certificates and marriage licenses they will correct it but that is so labor intensive i refuse. It shouldn’t be this hard

Thank you so much!!

I don’t live in the Fresno area, but I stumbled upon this video. Thank-you very much for posting this video. You explain things clearly.

My father was born in Sanger. We lived in Fresno when I was 4 years old while Kennecott was on strike. I have lots of family in the Clovis / Fresno area. Nicely done video.

Why do you posts sacred thing ? The lord will zap you

It would’ve been so helpful and the right thing to do if sealings to spouses had been blocked from being done until all of the other work had been done. Also, I have found many people that have no living descendants. Sometimes the work will be done up until the endowment. The endowment is the hardest thing to get done, in my experience. Many times all the work comes to a complete halt for decades when it gets to that. Also, when merging I’ve found that when the temple work has been done twice it doesn’t just pick up the oldest ordinances. I feel that the oldest should be maintained and not a mix. Right now it’s a mixture of old and new. This is so frustrating because it’s a historical record and I want to know the oldest, not of the newest. There are so many problems that need to be addressed and these new changes are very complicated to me.

Brother Givens - what is the best way to report fictional or fraudulant submissions to FamilySearch? I'm not asking about mistakes, but about trees created from thin air, tacked on at random places?

Oh okay ty do we still sign up the same way

the one thing I wish they would STRESS is DOCUMENTATION...I spend a lot of time correcting with document the errors over anctious people put in so " THEY CAN GET THE WORK DONE" I have a 100 year old Aunt living in Houston that two women keep saying is dead.. I talk to my cousin to verify and shortly after her birthday I called to verify and he said she just had three parties..1 with family ..one with church members ..one at her care center.

Thank you for the video. One thing the policy and your video did not address is genetic genealogy and unlinked family clusters. In other words, DNA based research. There are times when you can determine through dna a line of relatives who you know descend from your 4th great grandfather for example. But you do not know who the 4th great grandfather is because there are no records for that time and location. So, you may have 100 descendants of this 4th ggpa. You would know with 100% certainty they are his descendants and therefore your relatives. But in family search it does not show you as related because you cannot enter a 4th ggpa because you do not know any info about him. You can also find solid documentation for every one of the 100 descendants that are your relatives. I submitted this very example to family search Dec 10, the day the policy came out. They replied with a policy that says dna research is not a substitute for traditional record research and denied the request. This showed a lack of understanding of genetic genealogy because I was not using it to substitute for traditional research. I had solid documentation attached to every name of my relative I was requesting to submit the temple work for. (This is just one example. I e also used dna research to find several adopted peoples families. In some cases I can identify many people from their grandparent and older for several generations, but I can’t determine which brother is their father. With this policy, they cannot do the work. I also helped a lady in our ward find 70 of her ancestors from a village that was bombed in ww1 and all records were destroyed. We know many descendants of her 3rd gg parents, but we don’t know the 3rd ggpas name. That she is related is 100% certain based on the dna, but she cannot submit their work under this new policy. These exceptions are 100% proof that the submitter is related. There appears to be an exception for same surname living in a known ancestors location; in that exception, you only “probably “ know they are your ancestor. But with enough dna evidence, you can know with 100% certainty exactly how they are related to you. But you can’t get approval to do the work- in my opinion- it appears to be because the people overseeing the administrative policy don’t fully understand genetic genealogy. Any suggestions for how to get beyond the help desk at family search and talk to someone who understands genetic genealogy?

Why are you upgrading the book of mormon when JSJ said it is the most perfect book ever written. If you have to change your rules and policies your definitly not the only true christian church. Jesus is the only way to heaven he,s the only one that died for our sins not JSJ not BY not your church.

I have this challenge. A member died and has no relative who is a member. How can his name be sent to the temple?

Mormans gotta be the most gullable people on the planet.

This is my problem .yes ive done work for friends not in the church. Not them cuz the death isnt 100 years but somwone i could do. Same reasons stated to gwt them out of prison. How is this any different then being given A name at the Temple who doesnt belong to me. Based on that i feel i did nothing wrong. The people who where my friends come feom long backgeounds of churchs who would very unlikely convert to our church. The hatred is to high

So, if I want to do ordenanças for my ancestors they must be on my tree?

Thank you!

Clear and informative - Thank you!

Wish he would talk alittle faster, zzzzzzz

Thanks. I subbed.

My daughter was taking my granddaughter to the temple for her first temple experience. I got online to prepare the cards for her to do the work for my older sister. Someone in Utah did the work already! We were devastated. This was my sister! 😢I am receiving prompts from Family Search telling me an ancestor needs to have work done - but I have already done the work for the names I am receiving! I can tell by the spellings that they are taking names from each census and putting them out there to have work done! FamilySearch is a mess!

I like your very clear explanations. Thanks so much!

Gathering is real and redeeming the dead is the goal. I’d honestly don’t care if I’m directly related or not we are all sons and daughters of our father in heaven. It just doesn’t matter.

Is there a phone number and time that a person can ask specific questions? My father was adopted. There are things wrong with my file that are not correct. We have found out things through DNA that we didn't originally know. I would like to change what needs to be changed.

All of this info is extremely helpful. Thank you. In my case, there is someone who is not a member of the Church, who has been adding names on family search. I realize that anyone can add or change info on family tree, but this person has been taking out people I know I'm related to and replacing them with names of others and building back from there. They have no sources listed. I'm pretty sure I already did the Temple work for my 2nd great grandfather, but this person has removed him from the tree and added someone in his place. What can I do about that?

I so appreciate this! One year after my grandmother died, someone not of our family in a different state did her work! 😢 We are the only members in the family. Also, a woman contacted me on line wanting to do a direct ancestor I was working on. She said she was doing the work for her " divorced husband!" When I told her I was working on that direct line, she got annoyingly insistent. So glad for these new rules!

I have been just guessing my way through Family Search. I am extremely glad l just found you. I will be watching now

We can't do distant aunts, uncles and cousins that are over 110 years? Is it safe to submit names that are green? meaning we are related. I didn't see anything about our 110 years old cousins, aunts and uncles. There is no way we could get permission.

Wonderful tool! Great job presenting! Thank you.

Dear Bro. Givens, thank you so much for your excellent videos explaining the Family Search tool. I was so impressed with the quality of your presentations. We are now subscribed. 😊

Nice to learn about my ancestor Isaac Morley.

Great information and clearly explained. Thanks

This helps our understanding on how the system works. Better to share when you can.

Thank you so much , Bro. Givens for carefully explaining these numerous and rather complicated changes. It has been very helpful. The way I see it, this is the Lord’s church and any changes made are good faith efforts to further His work in gathering Israel on both sides of the veil. I am grateful for the help. I am sure the hearts of most, if not all, temple patrons are in the right place, but we don’t always know what or how to do the work correctly and mistakes get made innocently. Family Search is constantly working to improve and make things easier for us and making sure things are done correctly. I, for one, am very grateful. When the guideline are clearly set, there is less guesswork and my time can be better spent in furthering the work.

The section on divorced spouses in the system concerns me a bit. My Great Grandmother is sealed to both of her husbands after her death in accordance with policy. She was divorced from her first husband and that’s who my genetic line is through. I didn’t just get “unrelated” to my family line because of a divorce from the 1930’s right?

It helps delayed the work for gathering Israel in the Last Days. New policy.

This is a sad change. I can no longer submit the names of my ancestors' siblings, etc. We were getting so much work done. Now we can do very little to none because we have worked so far back on our direct lines that we can find no more records. I thought the goal was to save our ancestors, not "claim" ordinances for ourselves. Truly sad.