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Greetings.  Although I have used Hope Chest for a year, I am not as experienced as my brother, Norman Shipp, in Idaho.  We learn from the each other's experiences. Please share experiences, questions, answers, and discussion.  Richard Shipp and Andrea Shipp Dewsnup are power users.

I've recently told 30 people (temple and ward) about our blogspot and the tremendous potential using Hope Chest (with checking each ancestor/relative moved from Hope Chest to your temple tab of FamilySearch.org) and will suggest they browse the following pages on HopeChestSoftware.com ::

http://hopechestsoftware.com/home/videos

http://hopechestsoftware.com/home/install

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hope-chest/gjneklbanpnnjdeddbnkkgeljkhpblhp?hl=en

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hope-chest/gjneklbanpnnjdeddbnkkgeljkhpblhp?hl=en

Basically, you can search back on your FamilySearch.org (tree) and select an ancestor to use HopeChest to go further back or come down to desendants of ancestors and bring people needing temple ordinances into your personal hope-chest.  You can then move them over one at a time. 

So instead of finding people one at a time, you find 100, 200, 300 at a time.

To begin, you should pay for the modern tool (for us it is an extention of Google Chrome, but there afre other platforms supported) which is a $10 one-time-charge, and then download to begin.  First, browse the links to understand concepts and procedures.