Descendants with Tasks: A Quick Way to Add Records to Your Family Tree and Find People Who Need Ordinances

 

FamilySearch has been providing tools to make researching your family quick and easy for a number of years now, and one of the best new tools is the "Descendants with Tasks" list that is available on the mobile phone version of the FamilySearch App. This version is particularly helpful for busting the myth that temple work is done for your family. (Elder Bednar used this on the 2023 World-Wide Leadership instruction to show the myth-busting potential.) If you find that one line of your family has no tasks right now, you may just have a very eager family member on that line. Try another! And then go back to that line later. FamilySearch is adding records all the time, so new opportunities will always arise. 

To use:

1. Find an ancestor who lived in the early to mid-1800s. For most people, this will be a 3rd to 4th great grandparent. Select them in the family tree to pull up their individual page. 

2. Click on the 3-vertical-dots icon in the upper right corner and select the option "Descendants with Tasks." This will bring up a list of individuals who need either temple work (the temple icons -- in green for people who are ready and yellow for those who need more information) and/or records attached (the blue record icons). 

3. You can toggle the list to be up to 5 generations. You can also select just record hints, temple hints, or both.

4. Clicking on the blue record icon will bring you to the record linking page. 

You can learn more about how to use this feature and other lists to do research on your phone at this page that also has more step-by-step instructions. Completing Tasks on the FamilySearch Moble App