Living records
Is my family doing this right?
I have 8 siblings. My father is deceased, and my mother is living. I have created a record for my mother which comes with its own unique record number so that I can see her ancestors. I have linked that record to her parents which gives me visibility to all of her generations. My other siblings have created unique records for my living mother. We now have 8 unique records for our mother. At some point, we can merge these 8 unique records so that we are all using the same record, but it looks like that will happen after my mother passes away. Are we doing this right?
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Yes you are. This is done to Family Tree protect the privacy of living people.
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Yep, you are doing it exactly as designed and intended: a single profile for deceased people, such as your father, and separate private profiles for living people.
Note that your profiles for your mother can be bare-bones placeholders, with just a name, or not even that ("Mom" works just fine). Keep the personally-identifying information offline in a genealogy file that you can share with your siblings. You can add those details to the online tree after she has passed and therefore no longer needs any privacy protection.
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I also recommend using minimal placeholders for living persons.
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The above statement on privacy is correct. Yes as your mother and father had 8 kids and she is living, she has 8 different IDs. When your mom passed away make sure that her ward clerk does his job so her death date and location. Are official. And may your mom live a good long life.
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