New Family Groups Feature Makes it Easy to Collaborate on FamilySearch • FamilySearch

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New Family Groups Feature Makes it Easy to Collaborate on FamilySearch • FamilySearch

The new family groups feature makes it easy to send messages to a selected group of your living relatives on FamilySearch. Come create your family group!

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Wilkins, Linda

I want to change the settings on my gmail account that I added when I first created the group, Can I do that? Or is there a way to delete the group ( no members but me) and start over. What I dont understand is how to send invites from my gmail instead of live mail. I dont even understand what that is and how to retrieve replys

Amy Archibald

@Wilkins, Linda

You can change your email for FamilySearch, by accessing the account settings: https://www.familysearch.org/identity/settings/account

When you invite others to a family group, you can click on the option to "copy link". Then you can open the email program you prefer and create an email for your family and paste the link into the body of that email.

JoyWhitneyStubbs

Will you publish step by step instructions on how to use the groups. The members in our group are daunted by it.

Amy Archibald

@JoyWhitneyStubbs

Please check out the following Help Center articles:

How do I create a family group?

How do I invite people to join a family group?

How do I join a family group?

How do I edit a family group’s name, photo, description, and group rules?

How do I give administration rights in a family group?

How do I send a message to a family group?

Gloria Dobberfuhl1

How do I delete a family group that I created? How do I remove my name from a family group?

Amy Archibald

@Gloria Dobberfuhl1

Please check out the following Help Center articles:

How do I delete a family group?

How do I remove someone from a family group?

How do I leave a family group?

annaliesegabriel1

We would like to use the Family Groups feature to cooperate as a ward family. I noticed the maximum number of people in a group is 100 people. Is there any way Family Search could increase that number?

Thank you!

Amy Archibald

@annaliesegabriel1

That is the limit for groups since they are made for immediate families. Are you using the Family Group feature to try to coordinate ordinance work in your ward? If so, Ordinances Ready already pulls from ward and stake submitted names. It is recommended for individuals to share with immediate family or the shared temple list. Having ward members share their reservations to just a ward group prohibits others who may be related from accessing those ordinances and oftentimes delays the work from being completed.

MaryEDowney

We have set up a Ward Group for about one year to enable shut-ins and other elderly people who cannot get to a temple (the closest is 2 hours away). We have set goals to achieve a certain number of ordinances by 2025. I have read the responses below and understand that having a ward group is not ideal but we will only be doing this for a predetermined length of time. I have not be able to determine how to share ordinances with the group from my reservations. When my cursor is over the "share" button, it won't allow the share. Is it because I have already printed the cards? I still need to know how to do this so I can train others in our stake as this is a stakewide activity and goal.

Mary Downey

Susie Carlson

MaryEDowney Your best option is going to be to set up an appt. withOnline Genealogy Help so they can help you troubleshoot the issue you're having that isn't allowing you to share. Good luck!