How to add person to a friend's family tree
Hello - I am helping a friend with her family tree. I am signed in to my account so when I find a record for her ancestor, it seems to only give me the option of adding it to my family tree.
After clicking "Attach to Family Tree" on the record of her ancestor, it takes me to this screen and I'm not sure what to do from here. Can someone please tell me? Thank you for your time!
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Do you know the PID (the 8-character code) of her ancestor? You can enter it in the box.
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Thank you for your response! I do not know the code. How do I find it and has she already been assigned one?
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If the person is already in the tree, there is a code. If you are helping your friend, your friend should be able to tell you the PID of her ancestor.
IF the ancestor is living, you will not be able to see the profile. You can simply give the record and the URL to your friend.
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I've found one record (a census record) for her ancestor, but I'm not sure how to attach it to anything. My friend knows less than I do about this so she won't be able to help me.
Is there a code visible on the record? I was thinking that I could click her name and maybe that would take me to her "main page" or something. I'm not sure if I'm being clear or not. I really appreciate you trying to help me! I've used Family Search successfully in the past so I'm not sure why I'm having difficulty this time.
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The PID is NOT on the record. The PID is the identifying code for the ancestor. You can see in your screenshot and in my copy of your screenshot: each person's name has the identifying code next to the name.
If your friend has not entered the names into the tree, then you will need to create the profile.
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As Áine says, indexed historical records and Family Tree profiles are two (very) different things. Source Linker is a tool for creating links or connections between these two different parts of the FamilySearch sprawl.
When you find an indexed historical record and invoke Source Linker, and the hinting system has not found a match for that record, then the tool shows you your Recents list -- the fifty Tree profiles you've opened most recently. Presumably, if you found the record while you were researching a profile (for a deceased person) that already exists in the Tree, then the profile will be on that list. (It makes no difference whether you're personally related to any of these people. Living versus deceased does make a difference: you can only see profiles for living people if you're the one who created them. This means that your friend will need to do at least a few steps herself, to link her own profile to the collaborative Tree.)
If the profile you want to attach the index entry to does not appear on your Recents list, but you know its identifier (the seven-character hyphenated string found near the person's name in most views of the Tree), then you can paste it into the box and proceed with linking the record to the profile.
If you don't know the identifier, but know that the profile exists, then you can use Find (in the Family Tree menu) to look for it.
If the profile doesn't yet exist, but other people mentioned in the same indexed record do have profiles, then you'll need to close this instance of Source Linker, go back to the indexed record's detail page, click the name of one of the people who do have Tree profiles, and then invoke Source Linker again. As explained above, choose the matching Tree profile from your Recents list (if it's there), or paste its ID into the box. Once this correspondence is established between the index and the Tree, Source Linker will give you the opportunity to create a profile for the new person, based on the indexed relationships.
If none of the people in the index have profiles in the Tree, then it's not time to invoke Source Linker just yet. You'll need to add a profile for at least one of the people involved before you can use this tool.
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