Updates to living people that I have added after my death
How will the currently living relatives that I have added be updated after my death? I am the only one that can currently see them so how will they updated for additional events like marriages, children, divorces, and their ultimate death after I die? How will my name be accessed so that it can be updated for my death?
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Probably one of a number of reasons for not adding profiles of the living to Family Tree.
The program was designed primarily for recording records of the deceased, so a lot of wasted time and effort is probably being spent by those who are adding lots of information to "Living" profiles in an expectation that future generations will benefit from this. Better to add this to your personal software package, since nobody but you can see it here (unless you share your password) even in your lifetime.
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@James Arnold in Texas Bingo!!! You hit the nail on the head! A while back I said it was an extremely poor business model that CREATES the need for duplicate records of perhaps millions of users. I suspect I am on the world tree at least 4 times.
And I do not bother with living people. No sources, no memories, no facts. The only live people I have created have been family who want me to do their family history. I grab a photo of them from Facebook and use it for a profile photo only so they can see their location in a lineage a bit easier. I send screen shots and have online meetings.
If I were you I would start either removing all your memories and perhaps sources attached to living people and keep them organized off line with a plan for someone to inherit them. That way it is not a wasted effort on your part.
I love FamilySearch as far as the deceased are concerned. LOL
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Your response does not pertain to my question.
I asked about future updates to my "personhood" and those living people that I added to the Family Search.
When a relative dies and I created that personhood I can update it but nobody else can see it since I created it. What happens if those invisible folks die after me? How can a future user find an invisible person? Since my personhood is currently invisible because I am alive right now how will a future user update my personhhod for my death?
Please don't answer about access to my account, that's not what l'm asking.
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"Please don't answer about access to my account, that's not what l'm asking." I'm afraid that's exactly what you're asking.
Since 'living' profiles are only visible to the account that created them, the only way to update those profiles is via your account.
At the risk of repeating what @Áine Ní Donnghaile said:
"How will the currently living relatives that I have added be updated after my death?" They won't be.
"How will my name be accessed so that it can be updated for my death?" It wont be.
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Please don't answer about access to my account, that's not what l'm asking.
Perhaps you don't realize it, but you are asking about your account since that is the only place where the profiles for the living people you added to the FSFT can be seen.
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Wow, so this work I've done will amount nothing in the long run? Why even bother adding living people? There should have been a clear and distinct upfront explanation that you are wasting your time adding living people.
If another user adds the same living person that I had previously added then there would be multiple occurences of the same living person. What a wate of time and effort! What's the logic in that?
That strange dichotomy between the way the living and the dead are handled here escapes me. Sooner or later we will all the join the dead, there's no other choice.
Family Search is free so you get what you pay for.
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Why even bother adding living people?
I don't on FamilySearch. A few have crept in with the release of the 1950 census, but I don't add the living. I also don't put photos on FamilySearch. Those go in my offline tree(s) shared with close family. I don't add restricted document copies on FSFT because that's against the guidelines.
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Thank you all for your comments.
Family Search needs to be a little more transparent about the futility of adding living folks. Omitting that critical "rules of the road" has resulted in zillions of hours of utterly wated efffort. I've used this site for several years off and on and have never seen the fact that the addition of living foks is just washed down the drain at the end of the day. Maybe call it "Dead Family Search" instead?
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@James Arnold in Texas There was an announcement made at RootsTech earlier this year that FamilySearch is working on a "Shared Living Family Tree." We don't have a lot of details yet. Here is the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwqxwC1eIDg The video is 42 minutes long. The Sneak Peak section that talks about the Living Tree starts at 33:18. My guess is that, with the mention of this feature affecting Memories, your work has not been in vain.
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