Adding Living Family
I know my sibling has a FamilySearch account, so the process of adding a record for them just to invite them seems a bit odd. My concern (as I've seen this in my family) is duplicate records for (living) individuals. In this case, that seems redundant. Shouldn't we just be able to send a (email) request to the individual (since we know they have a record) so that they can join and add their record to the family tree?
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WOW!!! I'm a 25+ year Temple and Family History Consultant & use FamilySearch.org almost daily. I've been waiting for this for sooo many years & just tried it out & it's so very easy! LOVE IT!👍️ THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!💕
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@J. Alan Meade On the Administrator page it says:
and links to an article on how duplicates in Family Group Trees may actually help decrease the total number of duplicate records in Family Tree.
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@Terry Ferguson Thank you for your kind words. This has been a long time in coming but so exciting to see!
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Hi Alan,
I thought the same thing at first. Then I used it more and realized there was thought put into making it easier to merge living people, after they pass away.
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Before this family group tree feature, we already had many copies of living people. My parents can't see my living person, my husband can't see my living person, my kids, etc. So, my mom for example, sent a lot of time adding all my information to her tree. But I already had all that info in my tree.
This makes it (in some ways) more difficult to merge those two copies after I am deceased. Someone (other than me) may have to decide if "Seattle, King, Washington, USA" or "King, Washington, United States" is my actual birthplace. That's a huge waste of time, on top of the fact that both my mom and I spent time inputting the data in the first place.
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After family group trees, I can copy myself into this family tree. Everything I've entered is now visible to my mom. She can add anything she feels is missing, but she doesn't have to add more than my name to her private copy of me (the copy one no one can see, but her).
She can add a photo of me to this shared tree, and I can write my comments on it, rather than uploading the same image myself.
Less duplication of Memories and Sources, and more sharing, should help reduce a lot of redundancy. While creating a more complete "whole" copy of me, for the other minor copies to merge with after my death.
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When I die, my private person will automatically update to say "Deceased" because I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint. None of my ancestors are members of the Church though, so my mom's private copy of herself will not update for... 110 years? Maybe? Basically, with the old model, I will never see what she added about herself.
But now, thanks to our family group, we can update her. We have access right now to what she said about herself, and later, we can share any of her images that she would want us to share.
Hope that helps! Keep the suggestions coming, as there's work to be done and I'm not sure if we've arrived at the best solutions yet or not.
Thanks,
~Stacy
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