CHAPTER 26 MAKING OUT TEMPLE SHEETS After gathering data concerning our ancestors, properly, arranging it into family groups, and recording it in our permanent Family Record of Temple Work, we are ready then to copy the names from our record on the sheets or forms furnished by the Temples, preparatory to temple ordinance work. Three forms are provided for this purpose, and as baptism is the first ordinance performed, the baptism blank would necessarily be the one used first. Read carefully the printed instructions given at the top of each of the forms and a clear understanding of the information needed will be had. Write the name and full address of the person in charge of the family records, in the blank space on the left of the sheet. This is most important if the sheet is to be returned. Delivery and Mailing Department of the Salt Lake Temple. Individuals, families and ward officers should be properly organized and instructed, in order that confusion, loss of time, and duplication of sacred ordinances may be avoided. The best new ideas are often merely old ideas adapted to changed conditions. The methods used in 1893 when the Salt Lake Temple first opened its doors for this sacred work, when an average of thirtyfive saints each day availed themselves of its privileges, as contrasted with the record of 28 March, 1924, when six sessions with a total of one thousand seven hundred and seventeen people registered for endowment work in one day (this does not include other ordinances that are performed daily in the Temples) prove the necessity of readjustment of the old ideas and methods; hence it was decided that the record department shall be organized under stake units. stated as follows: The rules of this method may be 1. All individual or personal records after being properly recorded, numbered and proof-read by the individual, shall be reported to the recorders at the office as usual, with the full name, address, stake, and ward of the person in charge of the record. 2. Parties desiring finished baptismal sheets or names from their records for endowment work will obtain them from the clerk in the recorder's office. 3. All finished endowment work is reported each day to the room which is now equipped for classification. Here it is filed by stakes under the respective heirs. A card of each heir with the full name, address, stake and ward of the person in charge of the record is then placed in the department files. The sheets or slips are then transferred to the delivery department, where they may be called for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The clerk must be told, personally or by letter, the name of the stake and at whose instance the work has been done. Each delivery is stamped on the back of the index. 4. A mailing department has also been found necessary; all desiring their records mailed can arrange for this service with the clerk, a file record being kept of each mailing. 5. Those in charge of this department at the Salt Lake Temple are in close co-operation with the Utah Genealogical Library, The only way this department can be kept up and give the service for which it has been established is by the stakes co-operating with. this Department in perfecting the index of active heirs and supplying missing information. They should report through their Stake Record Department the constant change of individual addresses. The present and future value of this Department rests with each stake as to the amount and value of the service rendered. The stakes should make themselves familiar with this department, and both stake and temple registers should be kept up to date, as the proper recording of records is the first essential step toward the elimination of duplication. FORM FOR USE IN BAPTISMS AND ENDOWMENT WORK This form of blank is to be used in giving information required for Baptisms or Endowments for the Dead; other Every family should have a "Family Record of Temple Work for the Dead," and enter therein, promptly, all or- Address:. Name of Heir, or Friend, at whose instance this work is done BORN WHERE BORN DIED BAPTIZED ENDOWED Names of Proxies NAMES IN FULL || Day Month | Year | Town County State or Country || Day Month| Year ||Day|Month] Year||Day|Month Year] Relationship of THIS FORM IS TO BE USED ONLY IN GIVING RECORD FOR SEALING OF CHILDREN, WRITING SHOULD BE PLAIN AND LEGIBLE, AND INFORMATION AS COMPLETE AND ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE Before children are sealed or adopted all the other ordinances to which they are eligible as children should first be attended to, and the sealing of each family should be done as soon as possible thereafter. All the members of a family should be sealed to their parents at the same time, if possible. If the sealing is to another person than the father or mother, that fact must be stated, and receive the approval of the President of the Temple. When women have been sealed as wives, add the man's surname to theirs. Children Sealed 19. No person should have the ordinance of Sealing Males over 21, or females over 18 years of The lists can be obtained from the recorder's Name of Heir at whose instance this work is done NAMES OF PROXIES |