Cannot create our marriage relationship as we are both already on Familysearch and living
My wife and I both have trees on Familysearch dating back to 1600.
We are not able to create a marriage event as we are not able to see each other’s person record due to the privacy rules.
How do we go about achieving this, as we now have only a half picture on each of our trees?
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You each need to add a profile for each other, and connect it to your public (deceased) relatives' profiles.
In more detail: for simplicity, let's say that only you and your spouse are living; your parents and in-laws are deceased. You have a profile for yourself, PID-YOU1, which is private to your account, since you're living, but it is connected to your parents, PID-DAD1 and PID-MOM1, which are public. Your spouse has a profile for herself, PID-HER1, which is private to her account, but it is connected to her parents, PID-FIL1 and PID-MIL1, which are public. So, in your account, you need to use "+ Add Spouse" to create a new profile for your spouse: PID-HER2. Then you'll need to go to that new profile, click "+ Add Parent", choose the "By ID" option, and add your in-laws (PID-FIL1 and PID-MIL1) as PID-HER2's parents. Similarly, your spouse needs to go to her own profile of herself (PID-HER1), create a profile for you (PID-YOU2), and attach your parents (PID-DAD1 and PID-MOM1) to it.
Yes, this means that in the background, PID-DAD1 and PID-MOM1 will have (at least) two children attached (PID-YOU1 and PID-YOU2), but you and your spouse can each only see one of them, and most users can't see either one.
One consequence of that last observation -- the fact that other users cannot see the profiles you enter for living people -- is that there is no need to enter any details on those profiles. I don't even have my surname or birthdate on mine. Profiles for living people are just connectors or placeholders, and there is no need to spend any time on them. Keep track of their details offline, where data breaches aren't a thing.
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Thank you very much. We will try this tomorrow. I will let you know when we are successful.
Des and Pam Ramsay
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A few years ago I opened a page on Family Tree for my living wife so I could record residences and memories as they occurred when such information and materials are much more available. Since I initiated the page, I am the only one who can access it.
The question is, how can I give access to my wife to this, her own page, when she logs on via her LDS account?
Then she can do her own work.
Stewart Goesch
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You can't at this point, since your copy of your wife is distinct from your wife's copy of herself. There is a feature under development for sharing living persons within a family group. Once that has been released, you'll be able to share a single instance of your living wife's profile.
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