Temple and Family History: Getting Started
Welcome to the Sugar Land 2nd Ward resource page for Temple and Family History work.
Below are introductory explanations and references to the various aspects of Temple and Family History work. In order to get started, you will need a login to familysearch.org. If you are a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, your membership credentials are your login, otherwise you will need to create an account.
There are a few related areas to the redemption of our deceased ancestors :
Data Digitizing (Indexing, reviewing names, verifying places,etc.)
Building and Adding to Your Family Tree
Temple Work
More information on these categories are listed below:
Data Digitizing (Indexing, reviewing names, verifying places, etc)
Searching records for information
related to our deceased ancestors. There are many physical records
added daily. To facilitate access to these records by a broader
audience, these records must be Indexed so their content becomes
searchable.
Here are resources to provide you an
introduction and guidance to getting started with
Indexing:
https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/my-indexing
In
addition to Indexing, there are three other areas of opportunity
related to digitizing records:
Quick Name Review
Full Name Review
Verify Places
Some may consider
these activities as a type of game. For more information, please
see:
https://www.familysearch.org/getinvolved/opportunities
and
click on “Get Started” or “Find Places” as desired
In
addition, to support the various areas of Family Search, phone apps
are available for Android and Apple
phones:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/mobile-apps/
Building and Adding to Your Family Tree
Linking ourselves to our living
and deceased ancestors by identifying and recording a small set of
essential information. Finding our deceased ancestors is made
easier by Indexing as described above.
Here are resources
to provide you an introduction and guidance to getting started with
building your Family
Tree:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/overview
Temple Work
Once we have identified and linked
our ancestors, we can perform vicariously the saving and exalting
ordinances of: Baptism, Confirmation and gift of the Holy Ghost,
Ordination to Priesthood for male ancestors, Endowment, Eternal
Marraige and Sealing of children to Parents. This work is performed
in the Temple.
You can identify names to take to the
Temple according to the type of work you plan on participating in at
the Temple through the “Ordinances Ready” feature of the Family
Search - Family Tree phone app as well as on the Family Search
website:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/new-ordinances-ready-feature
Our
Ward holds a monthly Ward Temple trip. We target the 1pm Endowment
session on the 2nd Saturday of each month, however we encourage you
to attend a time or ordinance that works best for you.
Here
are resources for scheduling a Temple visit to ensure you have a
spot in the Endowment session:
Houston,
Texas Temple Reservations
Youth temple
trips occur quarterly where baptisms and confirmations are
performed. All members, including new members, are encouraged to
attend as often as schedules allow to bring the power of the temple
into their lives.
Here are published frequently asked questions published at Family Search:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/family-tree-faqs