Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Family History News Update

The following announcement is by FamilySearch Support.

Here is some important information about a newly certified software application that will work directly with the new.familysearch.org Web site to prepare ancestral ordinances for the temple.

RootsMagic 4 is the first software affiliate product that is certified to reserve and submit ancestral names to temples to print LDS temple name cards using new FamilySearch Web services.

As an application that is certified to reserve ordinances, RootsMagic 4 has the ability to link people in your desktop genealogy file with matching people on the new.familysearch.org Web site. Once linked, a simple click on the temple icon next to a person’s name will display that person's official temple ordinances, complete with dates, temple name, and status. Incomplete temple ordinances may then be reserved to be performed at a later time. Your own file may also be updated with ordinances that are already completed. RootsMagic 4 can select reserved ordinances and print a Family Ordinance Request (FOR) form to take to the temple. Once at the temple, a worker will scan the bar code on the form and print all the desired temple name ordinance cards. Once the ordinances have been completed, RootsMagic will be updated with your ancestors’ new ordinance status.

For more product information go to: http://www.rootsmagic.com/fs/.

3 comments:

Jim B said...

Now all we need is to get actual access to new FamilySearch.....

John Garcia said...

And way to see how to get the dollars to pay for the program...

maybe for some people in USA is not too much, but for people in central america and some parts of mexico, it is ...

well, i hope church do something about it

RootsMagic said...

John,

RootsMagic 4 is available free to all Family History Centers. The FHC director can go to:

http://FamilyHistoryCenter.com

to request a free license to install RootsMagic on their center computers.