Adding Living People
Hello,
Thank you for making these changes. It is exciting. I reviewed the KA: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/family-group-tree-pilot/article/duplicates-and-family-group-trees. I am not sure that I understand. If I invite my siblings to the Family Group tree, I have to create an entry in Family Tree for them which results in a new PID for them as they are living. They each have their own Family Trees. Is there a way for them to come into the Family Group Tree without creating a duplicate PID?
From the KA, I am unclear regarding if you can merge two living people, i.e. the one from the family group tree and the one from my siblings personal tree in Family Tree. Please advise.
Thank you for all the hard work you are all doing. It is truly appreciated.
Jennifer
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There seems to be something wrong with the accepting the invitation part of this new feature- I invited my daughter & siblings and there's not a button or place to accept the invite however my daughter says she saw a screen that flashed on for about 3 seconds that said something about "You've been invited..." but then it was gone & there's not place to accept this. Please advise if you are having problems with this new feature before I send to more family members. Thanks- Terry Ferguson
PS I'm a 25+ yr family history consultant & practically daily user on FamilySearch.org so I'm very familiar with it's functions.
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@Jennifer Jackson You can merge duplicates that are in the same tree. You cannot merge duplicates that are in different trees. So if you create a copy of your sister and her children and then she joins the group and adds her own copies of her own children, there will be two copies of each child in your Family Group Tree. These can be merged by using the Merge by ID function. But you will not be able to merge your personal private copy of your sister and her children with the copies created in the Family Group Tree, because they are in different trees.
As to how these Family Group Trees reduce duplication, American Family Historian gives a great explanation in her comment here.
@Terry Ferguson With the Family Group Tree connectivity turned on in your group, you create a unique invitation that goes out to a specific individual. It is only good for the one person it was sent to. Therefore, there is no need to accept that single person into the group. Once your daughter clicks her link and signs in, she should show up in the list of members in that group.
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