Extend permissions to living people
I'm working on my family tree and I add my siblings and their families. After that, my older brother open his own account, find 'my' tree and added his name and those of his family. So, I think, there is at least two records for my brother. If my nephew open his own account, it'll be two (or more) records. Yes, some of the newest members of my family are very young or there is no yet sources over them. Yes, some cousins lives in other countries... their parents emigrate and their families lost connection with us. They are 'creating' new trees.
Of course, I would like the family to find as much information as possible without having to create a new tree and get to know the rest of the family, including those who are alive. They are the ones who will be able to resume family contact and build new ties.
Can you think a way to facilitate this?
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The need to create "new trees" is by design, and applies only and strictly to living people, to protect their privacy. You can and should all link up and work on exactly the same profiles of your deceased relatives.
Since the best way to protect private data online is to not put it online in the first place, I suggest not inputting anything more than placeholders or linking nodes for your living family. It's perfectly fine to enter Grandma as Grandma, if that's enough to tell you which grandmother that means. An unmarried nephew doesn't even need a profile in your private space; he doesn't link to anyone that his parents aren't already linked to. Keep track of his birthdate and such in offline genealogy software, not on any website.
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Note also that FamilySearch is working on sharing living persons within a Family Group, which will provide much of the functionality you are looking for. This was announced by Craig Miller at RootsTech 2023; see his "Sneak Peak" for this feature at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwqxwC1eIDg&t=2000s . This feature is available now to a limited set of beta testers, and will be available to everyone once that testing is complete.
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I echo @Julia Szent-Györgyi suggestion. FamilySearch is NOT the place to put information on the living. I don't even put the living on AT ALL unless they have asked me to do their family history. I grab a public facebook photo and use that for the profile so that when I take screenshots of their lineages, they can see where they are.
I suspect I have at least 4 records of me because of relatives who are active in FamilySearch. That is the way the system is designed to operate, so you don't need to worry about it.
Just tell everyone NOT to put their own wedding photos, children's birthdays, etc on FamilySearch. There is a chance that all work done on the living can be lost forever if a person dies and never gave their login credentials to anyone else before passing. (Exception, I think, is if you are LDS.)
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@Carlos A. Laserna Hi - @Julia Szent-Györgyi, @Gail Swihart Watson, and @Alan E. Brown have provided some insights to what is coming in Family search and how they deal with living people. But each of us can chose what living people we want to enter. As they said, only the person who enters the living person is able to see that record. Some have asked what about when the person dies, won't there be many duplicate records and the answer is yes but deserves a little more explanation. When a living person you have in your account dies, you should enter the death information and then merge the record with any duplicates. This should be all you have to do if everyone who has a record of the person does the same thing. If the death information is not entered on a record, it will not appear as a duplicate. Hope this helps.
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So FamilySearch jumped the ..... in Rootstech 2023, or are they announcing that it’s available in Rootstech 2024? I sure hope so, Thank You for all you do. 33:30 in What's New at FamilySearch in 2023
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