🌼 Light a candle for your ancestors

Every ancestor whose temple work was finished this past year becomes a glowing light on the big screen. It takes about a minute!

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1

Open your Completed list in the browser

🌐 Open Completed list

If the FamilySearch app opens instead: tap Copy, open Safari, paste into the address bar and tap Go.

If the FamilySearch app opens instead: press and hold the orange button and pick Open in new tab — or tap Copy, open Chrome, and paste into the address bar.

Still opening the app?

Press and hold the orange button. If you see Open in Safari, tap it — your iPhone will remember that choice for familysearch.org.

Still opening the app?

Try a Chrome New Incognito tab (⋮ menu) and paste the link. Or: Settings › Apps › FamilySearch Tree › Open by default › turn off Open supported links (you can turn it back on later).

2

Sign in and tap “Download List”

Don’t see the button? Tap aA (or the ••• menu) in the address bar › Request Desktop Website. When asked, tap Download.

Don’t see the button? Tap ⋮ › check Desktop site. Then tap Download if asked.

3

Come back here and pick the file

Tap Browse › Downloads (or look in Recents). The file may be called something like “completed.csv” or end in “(1)” — that’s fine.

Look in Downloads (or Recent). Any name ending in .csv or .txt works.

Privacy: we keep only each person’s FamilySearch ID (so nobody’s counted twice), the place, and the ordinance type. Names are never stored or shown. The screen shows place lights only.