Add Family Members with FamilySearch ID Numbers | There's a Video for That • FamilySearch
Add Family Members with FamilySearch ID Numbers | There's a Video for That • FamilySearch
At FamilySearch, we make it easy to share your family tree with your living family members using FamilySearch ID numbers.
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I lost my remarks but wanted to share that I enjoyed your presentations and so far, I have been doing the right things. I am 79 years old and started the journey in the 8th grade but always wondered before I got the bug in school. Always seeing people in my father's life and asking who they were. We had no family reunion on his Fitzgerald side of the family. I know more about his family, and he was close to his cousins. Sometimes I wonder people really understand what they have missed. I grew up in Hillsdale, Michigan and we taught tons of families in the United States that had roots in Hillsdale back in 1838 when we became a valued city. Thank you for you good presentation, voice means a lot to.me. You made me want to get involved, so I thank you again.
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I recently spent a lot of time merging and separating and untangling a number of families on one line on FamilySearch. I wrote to the author and this is her reply:
"All of this data was gedcom data from elsewhere. I understood that the system would find the matching people and they could be merged. It did not track the duplicates in most cases. I am very happy to merge them as I was not trying to make duplicates. I've been trying to merge duplicates myself and I'm not trying to take anything over or duplicate anyone's work. All I did was try to pull my Gedcom data over to this tree and this is what the system told me."
Even if I don't consider the time and effort that had to be taken to correct the added information (no sources), it seems that a large number of PID numbers were used and had to be discarded. I thought you might like to know.
Sincerely,
Alice Gedge
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Alice Gedge Thank you for taking the time to let us know. We will make the IT team aware of this.
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I tried to add the person using the FamilySearch ID PS5D-4RN, but it says "ID number not found" and won’t let me add them to my family tree.I have add attement as well
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@Idurbasha Where did you get that ID from? Was it sent to you by another user?
Is the person that it refers to still living, as recorded in FamilySearch? If that is the case, then the person's profile will be visible only to the user who created the profile. An attempt to find that person will likely result in your seeing that message. There is a drop-down arrow to the right of the message, indicating that there is further information available; if you click that message you will see "This person does not exist, has been removed, or is restricted in FamilySearch.". The "restricted" scenario would apply to such a living person, and also to a "confidential" person which could also be the case for the profile that you are looking for.
If you have an ID, then that person has already been added, so you wouldn't want to be "adding a person", just adding information to an existing person.
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Idurbasha If you're still having trouble after Julian's suggestion, please contact FamilySearch Support for your specific concern or book a time with Online Genealogy Consultations. This is available free of charge from the FamilySearch Library.
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