Personal Tree Security
The only person that should be able to change your personal tree should be you i.e the owner of that tree. Others may make suggestions to your tree but only you may change the tree. There needs to be a way to designate who will take ownership of your tree in event that you are unable to maintain the tree.
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@jamesnortonmcclellandjr1 FamilySearch has an open edit, collaborative environment where there is one world tree. What you think is your personal tree is actually shared by thousands of others who would also claim portions of it as "their" tree. If you want a truly private tree, you should not work in FamilySearch, but some place else like Ancestry.
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I think you might be thinking of a different website, where people have individual trees. From the Help Section, you can learn about how this site works. One note from there -- "Family Tree is different from other similar genealogy sites in that it is a single, public tree linked together in families, rather than a site that only allows users to create and manage their own private trees. This distinction means that everyone works together on the same data, allowing for the potential to connect every member of the human family."
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@jamesnortonmcclellandjr1, all Deceased profiles, whether added by you or someone else, are in the One shared tree. Anyone with a FamilySearch account can make changes, add sources, photos, change relationships etc to any Deceased profile. The Living you add are kept in a private area that is only visible to you.
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I would agree. I have people put thing in my tree which is an absolute fake. I no longer will work on this tree and I attest to the fact that the Wilson tree in not at all accurate. If you want accurate, I am on Ancestry where the tree is mine.
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Other sites charge a fee for holding an account with them, but the advantage is that only you can access and work on your tree there. However, it’s definitely worth having a FamilySearch account, which is free, because it gives you access to the most genealogy data and information available on any one site, at no financial cost to you. Many people operate two accounts, thus having the best of both worlds – being able to keep a private family tree, whilst also being able to make use of the most prolific information available anywhere.
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@Sue Black Ancestry gives people the option to build a tree while having a free account. To see what can and cannot be done with a free Ancestry account read their help article in the link below. The big thing you can't do with a free account is access most records either through the search feature or on other people's trees. One can make a web link to sources in other systems, like FamilySearch.
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Free-Registered-Guest-Accounts?language=en_US
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Another option is using a third-party software to build and keep your own database. Check out https://partners.familysearch.org/solutionsgallery/s/
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