You can sign up for it at new.familysearch.org. Don't use any other website as there have been some credit card stealing schemes with something similar. You can also get to it through lds.org.
I haven't used it at all, but I went to some training on it yesterday. I am very excited to get access to it (sometime next week). What seems so interesting to me about it is that you can work with other people in your family directly on the site. From what I have you seen, once you register and log in, you can click on a link that will show you your family history. It will show you a time line of your life with stuff like marriages, births, deaths, etc. At the top of the page is a pedrigee chart that shows you, your parents, and your grandparents--assuming the church knows all that. You can see on each of those people if their temple work has been done. I think (but haven't been able to play with it that much yet) that you can click on any of them and then see there parents and grandparents. You can then click on them and continue on up the family line until you find a blank spot (so you can know who to look for) and you can click on through until you find someone who hasn't had their temple work done. When that happens, you can click on a link to do their temple work. You print out a paper, take it to the temple, they take the paper and give you back a blue/pink card, and you go do the ordinances. You return the card, go home, and can see that the database has been updated to show that the temple work has been done for them.
I'm very excited about it. I'm excited to see where our family history research has gotten to and where we can pick it up. I'm excited that I can avoid doing work that other people have already done. I'm excited to do temple work for someone that is related to me (maybe that will help me want to go to the temple more often).
Anyway, when I learn more about it, I'll let you know.
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I have not used it. I am assuming that it is a family history thing. How and where do you sign up and what have you been using it for?
Sorry, no.
You can sign up for it at new.familysearch.org. Don't use any other website as there have been some credit card stealing schemes with something similar. You can also get to it through lds.org.
I haven't used it at all, but I went to some training on it yesterday. I am very excited to get access to it (sometime next week). What seems so interesting to me about it is that you can work with other people in your family directly on the site. From what I have you seen, once you register and log in, you can click on a link that will show you your family history. It will show you a time line of your life with stuff like marriages, births, deaths, etc. At the top of the page is a pedrigee chart that shows you, your parents, and your grandparents--assuming the church knows all that. You can see on each of those people if their temple work has been done. I think (but haven't been able to play with it that much yet) that you can click on any of them and then see there parents and grandparents. You can then click on them and continue on up the family line until you find a blank spot (so you can know who to look for) and you can click on through until you find someone who hasn't had their temple work done. When that happens, you can click on a link to do their temple work. You print out a paper, take it to the temple, they take the paper and give you back a blue/pink card, and you go do the ordinances. You return the card, go home, and can see that the database has been updated to show that the temple work has been done for them.
I'm very excited about it. I'm excited to see where our family history research has gotten to and where we can pick it up. I'm excited that I can avoid doing work that other people have already done. I'm excited to do temple work for someone that is related to me (maybe that will help me want to go to the temple more often).
Anyway, when I learn more about it, I'll let you know.
Mike
That sounds really cool. You do a great selling job. I am excited about it too now!
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