Sharing Living with the living
I have 8 siblings and only 1 has passed. I have 6 of my own children and there is a total of 55 Grandchildren and 50 Great Grandchildren. If there is a way we could share our living family names with each other that would be awesome!!!
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Sort of. You can create a Family Group that everyone with a FamilySearch account (up to 100 members per Family Group - so wow you might have to create several groups to cover everyone) can join. You can create a Family Group under your profile (upper right corner when you login to FamilySearch)> Family Groups or:
https://www.familysearch.org/groups/family
After creating a group you can invite the group members through email address - or sending them a link. Family Groups allows you to message the entire group through FamilySearch messaging - so does show you all the FamilySearch profile names for group members. You can enable relationship viewing to see how you are related to each other. But Family Groups will not share private living profile space/Details with each other (which is probably what you are after).
I hope this helps.
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In order to protect individual privacy FamilySearch does not provide this facility .
I would have thought that living parents, children and grandchildren would have all been aware of each other, but if you wanted to produce a list or diagram, this might be best done manually using either paper and pencil, or if you want to produce it on the computer, you could type and arrange the data on a spreadsheet, a Word document or even do a PowerPoint presentation. As this would be your own work, you would be free to share it with your family members, but as in all things, it would be wise to obtain the written approval of all the people on your list if you intend to share their personal details, even though it might be with only close family members.
I would however, be very cautious about putting this confidential information on your computer, as there are those who would delight in obtaining this data by whatever means they can devise, for their own purposes.
If you produce any sort of chart or list of living persons, start with just their names, and only add other information as necessary.
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I heard at the RootsTech conference that FamilySearch had a new feature for 2023 - being able to share with others the information on a living person. So when a baby is born, only one person needs to type in all the info, and he/she can send it to other family members so everyone doesn't have to enter all the same information on their pages. Does anyone know how to access this feature?
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Rootstech said it would likely be released the end of 2023. Taking into account the realities of programming development and testing, I’d probably add 6 to 12 months to that estimate.
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I'm with @BarryJohnson Ancestors are for on line research, living is for off line research.
It's nicer and more personal to communicate with close living relatives in person, on the phone, by letter or by email. Having to be updated on a new arrival through a irrelevant third party website is impersonal and not always private.
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In any event, the RootsTech presentation made it clear that this often asked for feature they have been working on for years is close to being released. FamilySearch is not intended to be an irrelevant impersonal third-party website but rather a personal site to promote close connections with widespread extended families. And there do seem to be a lot of people that use it this way.
Many families live too far apart to meet in person, phone calls get forgotten, letters get misplaced, emails get deleted. A private posting on FamilySearch is there for everyone in the private group to access forever.
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