Living Spouses show different Personal IDs for each other

ColeyDiane

I am helping a couple with the issue that each of them are showing different IDs for each other, and I need to know how to fix it. For example the husband shows his ID as AAAA-AAA and the wife shows his ID as BBBB-BBB in her tree. They also show different IDs for their children. Help please.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

Profiles that are marked as "living" are in the private space of the account that created them. Their only purpose is (or should be) as connectors or placeholders to get you linked up to your deceased relatives. The best way to protect the privacy of living people is to not put their information online anywhere.

I'm not LDS, so I have no firsthand experience with this, but it is my understanding that LDS accounts "come with" a bunch of data already filled in and profiles already created, based on membership records. This can easily make it look to a newbie as if the same profile has two different IDs, because all of the data comes from the same membership record and is therefore identical between the two profiles. However, they are not in fact the same profile, and what's more, they cannot be combined or otherwise be made into the same profile until/unless the person passes away.

Chas Howell

@ColeyDiane, They are not actually "seeing" each other's LIVING profiles. They are each seeing their own LIVING profiles in their own LIVING area of Family Tree. Because of privacy reasons Family Tree designed their system this way.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

This is by design: profiles for living people are only visible to the person who entered them.

ColeyDiane

I'm don't understand your answer. They can see each other and all their related data, but the systems shows each other and their children with different IDs number, so each of them is there with two IDs apiece.

ColeyDiane

Thanks, I understand now. I appreciate your responding.