Adoptive and Biological lines
I am so discouraged. I spent countless hours gathering Israel by helping my adopted son do temple work for his biological ancestors and now all of it has been detached from him on Family Search and I can't even find record of his father to reattach the line. Whatever update was just made detached all of it and I don't know how to reattach it. There should be an easy and clear way to toggle between his biological and adoptive family trees and lines. I don't want to spend hours finding and reentering every single ancestor all over again.
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This sounds a bit strange because only the person who created a Living profile can see or work with that profile. No one else can see or modify any family relationships.
By any chance have you accidentally changed accounts you are working in?
If your son created a FamilySearch account and a profile for himself, say with ID number AAAA-AAA, and created profiles for his living biological parents BBBB-BBB and CCCC-CCC, only he can see and work with those profiles.
If you sign into your own account and have a profile for him with ID number ZZZZ-ZZZ, that second living profile for him will only be visible to you, will not have parents unless you create duplicates for them, and you will never be able to find or see BBBB-BBB and CCCC-CCC because they are private and hidden from everyone except him.
To figure out what is going on, I would suggest finding the profile for a deceased biological direct ancestor and work forward towards your son and see what happens when you hit living people.
If you can't find a solution, you will have to request help through the Contact Us link and get an online consultation with someone who has administrative privileges and can see Living people in Family Tree.
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You can get information about who is making changes and send them a message. Hopefully you will be able to have a discussion and sort things out. See screenshots for accessing the Edit Log.
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When you find the change in the Edit Log you can also use the RESTORE option. This will bring back the previous version and resurrect deletions.
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I'm pretty sure there must be living profiles and a sign-in with a different account involved, as Gordon said.
For profiles of the deceased, you should never need to re-type anything, nor need to go searching for a profile that used to be attached: if it was once there, then it's still there, in the Change Log, as JLEd17 showed.
Once you've figured out what happened, the "easy and clear way to toggle between his biological and adoptive family trees and lines" is in the Family Members section of his Details page, where he can use "Set Preferred" to choose which set of parents the charts should show.
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JillGrahamMcWillis Please read @Gordon Collett 's response carefully. You and your living adopted son can never see the same version of his record unless you sit side by side and he logs in or you log in. My suspicions are that all of the work you did was when he was logged in, and you have forgotten that. Or the reverse is true. YOU logged in out of habit when you intended to log in and now you are logging in as him and not seeing your work.
The other possibility is that the connection got removed by accident, and if you can figure out which login was used to do that - yours or your son's - then @JLEd17 has given you excellent advice on how easy it is to find these changes, and in fact when you find the disconnection event, you can reverse it.
I work with relatives - including adopted relatives - on their family histories, and we only share our findings from the lowest deceased person in common.
You have to accept that you and your son will each have a duplicate person record for him. If his birth parents are still living, then you each have to have duplicates of them too.
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