While serving in the California El Dorado Stake as a Stake Family History Consultant and a volunteer at the Placerville FHC and in the Draper FHC, I have noticed a common problem when members come in to prepare names for and to do Temple Ready:  They cannot remember their user name and password to access the LDS ordinances on the Internet IGI.  So I and another member of the El Dorado Stake designed a card, the size of our temple recommends, to record the user name and password.  Since it is the same size as the Recommend, it fits in the plastic slip case with it.  On the back of the card are 7 items titled "What to Do Before You Do Temple Ready."  I found that most people keep their Temple Recommends in their wallet or purse, so if the Ordinance Access Card is kept with the Recommend, it is with them when they come to the FHC.

  It is set up so a FH Consultant can print on both sides of card stock paper, by turning the paper over.  The front and back sides match so the paper can be cut into wallet size cards and then distributed to members in his or her wards.    card template with e-mail.

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(Thanks, Brother Kesler, for sharing.  What you spent hours developing can now save hundreds of other busy people time they might have spent developing something similar.  These hundreds of hours saved can be used in helping members take their ancestors to the Temple.  Everyone, please share the good ideas you've spent time designing, so time might be saved for many and used for other important purposes!)

  P.S.  One thing we would have patrons also write on the card is the e-mail they used when registering.  Continually stress the importance of patrons remembering to go to "My Information" on their "sign on" page at FamilySearch and changing their e-mail address when they get a new one.  If they forget their username and/or password, they can get them through the automated system without calling or writing Support---IF their current e-mail address is correct (because that is where the username and password is sent).  But if they forget their username/password and their e-mail address isn't accurate, then they must call or write Support for help.