I can't add my own mother!
Hi,
I'm try to add my own living mother (she has her ID) and I put her ID and systems says "no results"!!!
This is so frustrating, really. I think it would be a very useful tool to enter church record number to find a person.
Thanks.
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I also put the whole name, date of birth, city, everything, and the result is the same... "no results"
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I can't believe it. If you pay attention you will notice ID number is the same, BUT, system says "ID number not found".
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Living profiles are private and only the person who created a living profile can see that profile. Only your mother can see herself with the ID she sees. No one else, including you, can. To add her so you can see her, you need to create a duplicate attached to you. It will have a new ID.
If your mother sees you as her child when she signs in, when you look closely you will see that you have a different ID number there than the ID number you see for yourself when you sign in.
Church memberships numbers are private. They should never be used for anything other than church membership record issues and creating a FamilySearch member account.
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For privacy, profiles that are marked "living" are only visible to the account that created them. You'll need to create your own version of a profile for your mom and any living grandparents, and join the public, shared tree at your first deceased ancestors.
Note that the profile you create for your mom doesn't need to contain anything besides some label by which you'll know who it is. "Mom" as given name, and nothing else, will do fine. I recommend this approach because it covers both extremes: on the one hand, only you can see it, so it doesn't need to say anything more than that; but on the other hand, data breaches can happen, and the best way to protect private data online is to not put it online in the first place.
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Hi Gordon. Thank you for your answer.
In my mother's profile, I don't appear. I'm trying to add our family relationship. How can I see my mother and her family with all the rest of relatives and their ordinances?
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Hi Julia.
If I understand, shall we go (with my mother) in separate lanes?
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Finally, I did what you said.
Thanks Gordon and Julia.
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Your private space -- containing anyone who's living -- will be separate, yes, but as I said, you don't need to spend much time or energy on it. Those profiles are just connectors to get from you to your deceased relatives.
For example, I have a profile in my private space for one of my dad's sisters. Said sister's grandson has a different profile for her in his private space, but each of those profiles is connected to the same spouse (his grandfather, my uncle-by-marriage) and brother (my dad, his great-uncle).
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This is such a common question and source of confusion which is just going to get worse, so here is an illustration of the structure of Family Tree that I tried, without much success, to keep simple:
You, @César Antonio Gomez Valenzuela are User X and are the three green ovals in the three lower boxes with three different IDS. Your mother is User Y and is the three pink ovals in the three lower boxes with three different IDs. You cannot see anything in the pink box. She cannot see anything in the yellow box. The middle lower box is not available quite yet.
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Thank you Gordon! That is an excellent diagram of the situation!
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