Allow sharing out individual records & ancestry to friends & family

Corey75

I've often had people interested in seeing my family tree and many in my family genealogy and I I'm rarely able to convince someone to install the app to go through the genealogy set up. Most people i want to show are not in my family and cannot see the records whether or not they install and setup the app.

It would be amazing if we could share an individual record, the entire family tree, and any historical record in our ancestry. I cannot currently share any records at all for external viewing to those who want to see the data on screen and choose not to install the app and go thru the setup process.

Im referring to sharing family and ancestry records of deceased members to people outside of my family tree and those without the app.

Itd be great to have a share link that goes to a page in my genealogy thru a web browser or temporay image that is autogenerated for viewing when the link is shared to a guest.

I want the person, to whom the link was shared, to be able to view the individual record, tree, or drill down the ancestry to older records under the shared individual if people are curious to see more as a guest viewer.

Basically they enter our tree at the point of the shared record and can drill further into the past as a guest without having to install the software, create a new account and be related. I want to share with strangers i meet in the search to complete historical data.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

I've never touched an FS app. I haven't installed anything FS-related since about five laptops ago, when offline indexing was discontinued.

Nobody needs to install or set up anything to use FS. They just need to log in, or create an account and then log in. If they want to connect their profiles to the collaborative Tree, they can, but they can view any profile in it, anywhere, for any deceased person, whether they've connected themselves to the Tree or not.

Gordon Collett

@Corey75 , this feature already exists. The starting point for it is at: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/ You do not have to be signed in to use it.

The specific page for someone in Family Tree looks like: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KWJZ-92G/daniel-collett-1807-1894 but if you know a person's ID number, you can shorten this address and add that ID number like this: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KWJX-W3T where the last portion is the ID number and give that link to anyone so that person can go directly to that page. Once on a page, you can jump to the pages for spouses, children, and parents by clicking on their names in the Spouse and Children or Parents and Siblings boxes.

As you can see, this page if very similar to a person's About tab in Family Tree and I have wondered if at some point this Ancestors page will be replaced by that tab in a way that the About tab can be viewed without being signed in.

(Just to be sure you understand the structure of Family Tree. You referred to "people outside of my family tree." In Family Tree, there is no one outside "your" family tree because Family Tree is a universal tree containing everyone. There is no separate "your" tree in it. Just people who are more closely related to you, more distantly related to you, and those who don't show a relationship to you yet because not all relationships are in the tree yet.)