Tech Forum

In looking through my Family Tree I noticed that an ancestor's Initiatory was performed 15 years after his Endowment. Is this an oversight or is it possible to perform these ordinances out of order? Although it can be possible to perform ordinances out of order, as lajackson indicated, the most com...

If you use the Ordinance Ready feature to print a card that was previously shared with the temple by others, will that count in the Family History Report as your submission? Yes. The FHAR only counts your first submission for the year, so it will cause you to be counted as a new submitter only if t...

I'm very late to reply to this, but since there were multiple misconceptions in this post, I thought it was important to clearly respond. I'm not sure where it came from but I remember hearing that only baptisms are counted. However, I have been unable to confirm (or refute) this belief. I asked the...

"Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" ... As I say, this is happening on downloading any image. I work at FamilySearch (but not in the groups that handle record downloads or FHCs). But I was able to dig into this and discovered that it is indeed a problem related to the FHC-specific software. The ch...

You'd probably get a better answer in the FamilySearch Forums . This forum tends to focus on the technology and supporting the church Family History Centers. The FamilySearch Forums have been inactive for many years -- they exist only in a read-only format for reference. The active place to get hel...

The Family History Activity Report for May is available now.

Our report for the Stake has not been updated since end of April. The numbers for May are late. Anyone that has the same issue? Yes, the FHAR does seem to be about a week late at this point. It's clearly not going to get released today, so I'd wait a couple more days into next week before getting t...

Try 3rd-party programs authorized by (with interfaces into) FamilySearch, noted in the Solutions Gallery at the bottom of any FamilySearch page. Hint: try the "Charts" category or the "Family Tree Management" category or the "Search" category. (With AQ, the report tab ...

I have issues with my trees as I am researching. The issue is that after I find a name to reserve for temple work the entire line closes up to the last "tree" I opened on a specific person. After the tree expansion closes up it is very difficult to find where I was in my family tree. Is t...

As financial clerk Member would like only the bishop to know his tithing How to set this up? Donations made to the ward (or using the regular online Donations option on the Church website) will be visible to the ward clerk and financial clerk(s) in addition to the bishop. There's no way around that...