Merge warnings aren’t understandable

Ana22860

Myself and my grandmother are trying to merge our IDs in our trees, and on both ends it prohibits merging and displays the message that there are conditions on why there cannot be change. It shows as unknown name even when all the information is the same on both ends and we just want the ID to be the same on both sides.

genthusiast

Living person profiles are currently protected and only viewable to the person creating/belonging to them. You cannot merge your grandmother's PID (person ID) because she is living. Your PID representing her place in the family tree will be different than the PID she sees when viewing the family tree (same family tree two different PIDs). Your grandmother's living PID will appear as Unknown because it is a protected living PID.

This will remain the case at least until the family shared-workspace feature - announced at Rootstech 2023 - is implemented and released. Those features will have to be released to determine whether PIDs can then be shared amongst Family Groups (agreeing to such sharing).

Of particular interest for some - may be whether those that do not agree to sharing will prevent those that do agree - from sharing a different PID for those living people? In otherwords - if some family member(s) do/does not agree to sharing their living PID(s) - will that prevent the sharing group from creating a different living PID to represent them? What should stop the group from including researched relations?

Gordon Collett

Comments from Ron Tanner a year or so ago about the shared tree were that in the shared living tree, each shared living person would have a different ID than a person's own copy of that living person. He wanted to make it clear that shared living would not necessarily decrease the number of duplicates in the tree unless people quit creating new copies and just joined a group that already had a copy.

His example was that if I have a profile of my living sister and she has her copy of herself, then when it was possible to have a group with a shared version, there would be a copy of her with a third ID we could both see along with the copy only she could see and the copy only I could see. That would be because if she decided to kick me out of the group, I would still have the profile of her that I made. But they may have changed the entire design since that time.

It will be interesting to see how this all works if it really does get released this year.

W D Samuelsen contact me please

Gordon,

this feature was mentioned in last Rootstech (I was in attendance) about family sharing.