Find other's Famous Relatives
I love the idea!!
Is there a way to have it work my husbands family? Or is it just for the main person on the account?
If it is workable for other family members in your tree an someone walk me through how to do that search?
Thank you very much!
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Nope, it doesn't work for your spouse's relatives. The only way I could figure out that yes, my father-in-law's first cousin is on the list was to temporarily change my profile into my child's. (I did it on the beta site to keep confusion to a minimum.)
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it can easily work for your husbands family . . . just have him create an account . . . and then use that account to check.
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@ Catweb1435 - thanks for posting your query to FamilySearch Community. I agree with Dennis - keep it simple. Your husband needs to set up his own account and access his own famous relatives, if any.
Kind Regards,
John L. Kennedy.
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As I understand , in order to view the "famous relatives" on my wife's side of our family (which are included in my tree) she would have to create an entirely new account and duplicate the extensive tree of her side of our family, which obviously already exists under my account. Can FS make it possible to allow me to designate her as the key person?
Idea: Streamline access in Famous Relatives. Allow account user to select individuals (wife/husband) to be the key individual to search for famous relatives as opposed to having to create a new account for a spouse and duplicating an already existing tree.
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It's all one tree. She'd only need to re-create the few living profiles between herself and her deceased relatives -- and given that those living profiles would only be visible to her, she would not need to spend any time and energy on them. It's perfectly fine to leave them as "Mom" and "Grandpa", with no dates or anything else. Once she got to her deceased relatives, she'd simply connect to the same profiles that you can see from your account.
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Thank you for the response and information. However, It still requires creation of a separate account and would be nice to have the option to designate a "key" individual already in my tree.
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You could try the site called (relativefinder.org). There are many options on that site. You can find relationships between any two persons wheather they are dead or alive.
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creating a separate account for your wife is really not a big deal - only takes a minute or so.
and the only people your spouse would have to add are her still living direct ancestors (which is proabbly just a few ) and then link them to the deceased people already in FS. (she would also have to add any deceased ancestors that are not yet in FS - but chances are most of her deceased ancestors are already in FS)
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also - some great videos that discuss the collaboratiev nature of FS Family Tree
WHY USE FAMILYSEARCH FAMILYTREE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwRSRZ9amlM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUcr4cH_EQ
your wife - does not need to re-add hundreds or thousands of people for her account - - if the people are deceased and already entered into FamilySearch by someone - then any of us me, your wife, or anyone else can link to those people - so the only thing your wife needs to do is to add any living direct ancestors (parents etc) and then link them to the deceased peopel already in Family Tree - and in minutes or hours - she could be linked to thousands of people ( that already exist in the database)
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but yes - your request of being able to view famous relatives (or other similar activities) - from the perspective of another person besides yourself - such as a spouse - is not a new request or subject - it has been brought up numerous times before here in the communtiy and elsewhere . But apparently of all the many things on their (FamilySearch's) plate of potential enhancements - it has never yet made it high enough to actually get implemented.
(but I am not a FS employee - so I can only say that from the perceived perspective of someone on the outside but who has been a member of the community for a very long time)
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