When creating a group, why doesn't it select all living persons in my tree by default?
Idk if this is the right place to put this, but I was curious why it didn't default to having all the living persons in my group by default, instead of just selecting me by default. There may have been an easy way to select every living person that I just missed, though.
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@Joseph Douglas Corey This is the right place to ask! And that is a great question!
The answer is fairly straightforward. Family Group Trees are intended to be a way to share information between close living relatives. Consider if all of YOUR close relatives are close to each other.
You are related to your cousins on your mother's side of the tree and you are also related to your cousins on your father's side of the tree, but, it is highly unlikely that your cousins on each side are related to each other. So while you might want to share with both of them, they wouldn't want to share with each other. So you might want to create two different groups, one for your mother's side of the family and one for your father's side.
So, if you create a Family Group Tree and the system automatically copied all of the living people that you have created into that tree, you would end up with all of your family from both sides in the same group.
Another issue is that I have created a number of living people profiles for people not very closely related to me as I have researched on various lines of my family. I don't need them all in my family group tree, as I will not be sharing pictures and family stories with them…I don't even know if some of them are still alive!
Take a look at Together by FamilySearch and see what types of information is shared through that tool and consider how you might limit your Family Group Trees by the kind of information you want to share.
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