Linking Copied Individuals
When copying individuals to research in a family group, it creates unnecessary duplication, and introduces opportunities for errors. When we add facts to individuals in the group trees, they have to be added in our own personal main trees as well.
I suggest that it be made possible to maintain the association of the individuals copied from our private trees into the family group trees with the original ones in our private trees, so that any changes made to them in either tree would be automatically updated to the other.
Likewise, I suggest when creating individuals in group trees, that it be made possible to automatically copy them to our personal private trees, again with the option to keep the association between them so that any further changes made to them in either tree would be automatically updated to the other.
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Had this problem. Ended up deleting them and starting over because they could not be merged. Still not certain how to carry persons from one tree to the other
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Better still just have the one entity appear in all the trees. Instead of ‘copy to’ allow for ‘include in’.
Presumably there is a technical reason why this type of solution hasn’t been offered as it seems the current arrangement is going to cause more confusion than it should.
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We are looking at ways to either match people between your private Person List or synchronize them. That takes a lot of moving parts, though! So, it will be a while before we have that kind of thing available.
To address @MarlenePitman's comment about sharing the same profile. We wanted to make it possible to keep private information private and also to allow individuals to include what they wanted about themselves, if all the profiles are shared, then it would be difficult to allow the full edit mode that we currently allow. Because someone from a different group could make a change to that profile and you would then have that change and that person showing up in a group that he isn't a part of, which would be even more confusing. Also, who would then 'own' the profile?
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Perhaps it could be like unto the merge feature.
Say that ABCD-123 is a private profile for Jane Generic. Then WXYZ-890 is a shared profile for Jane Generic in a Family Group Tree. She could add a tag to each profile that indicates that they are the same person. Then, from that tag, she could open up a special page that resembles the merging page, where she can compare the two profiles, and copy specific pieces of information to match one or the other.
For example, say that Jane is married, and has indicated that fact on her private profile, ABCD-123, but has neglected to add a place or date for it. Then Jane's mother goes into the Family Group Tree, and adds a standardized place and date for a marriage event on Jane's shared profile, WXYZ-890. Jane could then open the "Syncing" page, recognize that her mother made a change on WXYZ-890, and if she desires, copy that information to her private profile, ABCD-123.
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I hadn't thought about the issue of people from another group updating the profile. I can see it is more complex than first thought. Thanks for the clarification.
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