Navigating & Abilities of FamilySearch
Family History & Temple Gospel Principles
Temple Ordinances (Public Information)
Temple & Family History in the Scriptures
Worldwide Temples — Locations, Facts, & History
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This Family Search function is used to connect hints to ancestor profiles

What is the Hints / Source Linker

100

President Nelson taught that this work is “the gathering of Israel on both sides of the veil.”

What is Temple and Family history work

100

The first saving ordinance performed in temples for deceased individuals

What is baptisms for the dead

100

This Old Testament prophet kept detailed genealogies of Israel’s tribes

Who is Moses

100

The first temple built in this dispensation

What is the Kirtland Temple

200

This tab on FamilySearch lets you view your ancestors in a traditional left‑to‑right generational layout

What is the Tree / Landscape View

200

This principle teaches that families can continue beyond mortality

What are Eternal Families

200

This ordinance bestows the gift of Holy Ghost, and follows baptism

What is Confirmation

200

This Book of Mormon prophet passed the sacred records to his son Helaman.

Who is Alma the Younger

200

This temple was the first in Utah to be dedicated after the pioneer era.

The St. George Utah Temple

300

This tool helps you attach historical documents like census records to your ancestors

What is the Source Linker or Hints

300

This scriptural phrase describes the responsibility members have to seek out their ancestors, and is featured in both the Old Testament and Book of Mormon

What is “turning the hearts of the children to the fathers”

300

This ordinance includes instruction, covenants, and symbolic representation of the plan of salvation

What is the endowment

300

This New Testament book begins with a genealogy tracing Christ’s lineage

What is The Book of Matthew

300

Jesus ministered to the Nephites at the temple on this land

What is the land of Bountiful

400

This FamilySearch feature allows you to collaborate with relatives by leaving notes, photos, diary entries, and more

What are Memories

400

The method by which ordinances are performed in the temple for the dead 

What is by proxy

400

The ordinance that binds families together for eternity

What is Sealing

400

The Holy Ghost, when directing and influencing individuals to participate in temple and family history work, is sometimes called this 

What is The Spirit of Elijah

400

The first temple built outside the United States

What is the Cardston Alberta Temple

500

This function helps prevent duplicate temple ordinances by combining two records that refer to the same person

What is Merge

500

This doctrine explains why individuals can accept or reject temple ordinances performed in their behalf

What is Moral / Free Agency

500

When making covenants with our Heavenly Father in the temple, we are commanded to keep these laws. (Name one)

What is the Law of Obedience / Law of Sacrifice / Law of the Gospel / Law of Chasity / Law of Consecration

500

This scripture teaches that “the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers.” (give book, chapter, and verse)

What is Malachi 4:6 / 3 Nephi 25:6

500

This continent received its first temple in 1985

What is Africa

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