A Link to share the family tree.

Sidney656

Hi, I am not sure whether a share link is available on your site, if not, why not?

What about a link to share the family tree with others in my family, but without them being able to edit it? I am sure, if they never displayed interest in it, this might awaken their curiosity and even assist me with facts and details that might help me further the search.

Just a suggestion, thank you.

Jane Cantrell Brookman

You can set up a Family Group which can also include friends and you can invite people to join your group. Then you may work on your tree collaboratively.

Maile L

Mod note - Questions about a link to share persons in Family Tree have been merged here. Please see Gordon's 29 Oct post with for a way to share Tree information to others who may not have a FamilySearch account.

genthusiast

I believe you don't have to be logged in to browse Tree profiles - so yes that's possible. I'll have to give an example later...

As Gordon shows below you can share links to profiles in the Tree. Using the discovery pages you can share such a link without having to be logged into FamilySearch (it's the discovery pages I was recalling). Here is an example - notice I am not logged in - also note the social media sharing icons (sharing a link via social media will probably act the same way - not require login to view profile - but to browse/traverse Tree they would need to create an account and login):

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KNDX-MKG/president-george-washington-1732-1799

If they aren't logged in they cannot edit the profile.

If you are wanting to share a pedigree/descendancy tree without it being editable - you might need to save and share an image. Once a person logs into to browse the Tree - they can edit if they wish.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

@genthusiast I just tried accessing the tree both by link and by searching by name, while not logged in. In both cases, FamilySearch required me to log in to proceed to the tree.

Gordon Collett

@Sidney656 There are share links all over the place in Family Tree.

But first I'll address what I think you might be asking. Due to privacy concerns and laws no one can see any of the living people we have personally entered in Family Tree. You cannot share your personal profile page with anyone. If you try, they will just get a "no such person" page. This is true for anyone you can see that says Living.

Now back to the rest of the tree. Since Family Tree is an open-edit, wiki-style, single database, everyone in the entire world has access to every deceased person in the tree. Everyone can visit your great-grandmother's page, for example, and see all the work you have done there, as well as all the work everyone else has done.

If you want to make sure other family members see that page for your great-grandmother, you can send a "share" link in the following ways:

1. I can copy the person's ID number, send it to my relative, and explain how to use the ID number to find the page.
2. I can copy the URL of the page and send it to the relative. When clicked on, the URL will to right here.
3. I can use the Share function of my browser. If I click on it, it gives me the option to e-mail or text the link

Gordon Collett

The three options above will require the person who receives it to sign into Family Tree because I started on the Detail page. Notice that the URL has "details" in it.

If instead you go to the ancestor page, which you can get to by going to your browser's address bar and typing https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/ and then putting your ancestor's ID number at the end it, then you can use options 2 or 3 to send a link that version of the tree. To look at that version you do not need to be signed into FamilySearch.

The ancestor page looks like this:

I assume it will be replaced by the About page for a person sooner or later. And I think the intent at some point is for people to be able to view the about page without having a FamilySearch account and without being signed in.

FranciscoLebre1

I would like to leave a suggestion, every time that i try to share with my family, the family tree, by the URL, it says every time that the link is unavailable because is in use.

Is there any chance to create a shortcut , a button or an option to share via other app?

Thanks for your time and keep up with the good work!

Corey75

I've often had people interested in seeing my family tree and many in my family genealogy and I I'm rarely able to convince someone to install the app to go through the genealogy set up. Most people i want to show are not in my family and cannot see the records whether or not they install and setup the app.

It would be amazing if we could share an individual record, the entire family tree, and any historical record in our ancestry. I cannot currently share any records at all for external viewing to those who want to see the data on screen and choose not to install the app and go thru the setup process.

Im referring to sharing family and ancestry records of deceased members to people outside of my family tree and those without the app.

Itd be great to have a share link that goes to a page in my genealogy thru a web browser or temporay image that is autogenerated for viewing when the link is shared to a guest.

I want the person, to whom the link was shared, to be able to view the individual record, tree, or drill down the ancestry to older records under the shared individual if people are curious to see more as a guest viewer.

Basically they enter our tree at the point of the shared record and can drill further into the past as a guest without having to install the software, create a new account and be related. I want to share with strangers i meet in the search to complete historical data.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

I've never touched an FS app. I haven't installed anything FS-related since about five laptops ago, when offline indexing was discontinued.

Nobody needs to install or set up anything to use FS. They just need to log in, or create an account and then log in. If they want to connect their profiles to the collaborative Tree, they can, but they can view any profile in it, anywhere, for any deceased person, whether they've connected themselves to the Tree or not.

Gordon Collett

@Corey75 , this feature already exists. The starting point for it is at: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/ You do not have to be signed in to use it.

The specific page for someone in Family Tree looks like: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KWJZ-92G/daniel-collett-1807-1894 but if you know a person's ID number, you can shorten this address and add that ID number like this: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KWJX-W3T where the last portion is the ID number and give that link to anyone so that person can go directly to that page. Once on a page, you can jump to the pages for spouses, children, and parents by clicking on their names in the Spouse and Children or Parents and Siblings boxes.

As you can see, this page if very similar to a person's About tab in Family Tree and I have wondered if at some point this Ancestors page will be replaced by that tab in a way that the About tab can be viewed without being signed in.

(Just to be sure you understand the structure of Family Tree. You referred to "people outside of my family tree." In Family Tree, there is no one outside "your" family tree because Family Tree is a universal tree containing everyone. There is no separate "your" tree in it. Just people who are more closely related to you, more distantly related to you, and those who don't show a relationship to you yet because not all relationships are in the tree yet.)