Unable to link to wife's tree ...
My wife and I each have an account. She has added a lot of information on my side of the family. From my account, I cannot add her as my spouse and am unable to add children. We noticed that the ID for my record is different between the two accounts. Is this difference in ID preventing us from sharing everything?
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Hi Edwards6109
Every Account have their own 'Private' records for living people. Once you are back to a deceased person, you will be able to connect with your spouse's Tree.
Enter your own record for your spouse and any living relatives, these will show in your 'Private' list. Private lists of living people are not shared with others to help protect the individual named. There is a Knowledge Article (KA) 'What are living and confidential people in Family Tree?' Click here to access.
Hope this is of some help for you.
Kind Regards
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@Edward6109 , if you are adventurous, comfortable with computers, comfortable with FamilySearch and willing to put up with a few bugs, you might want to start using a Family Group. To turn in this feature, go to https://www.familysearch.org/en/labs/ , choose the Family Group Trees tile, read all the information provided, the click the Turn On Early Access link.
You and your wife should decide first which of you should create the initial group. When you create the group, you choose the living person profiles you want to share with each other and created duplicate profiles in the group. Then you invite any of those living people, such as your wife (or you), and your children to join the group. When new members join the group they can then copy their versions of living person profiles into the group then merge duplicates as needed. Some merging happens automatically.
For example if you create the group, you create a duplicate profile for you, your wife, and your children in the group as well as your and her living parents if any to maintain a bridge to your deceased relatives. You invite your wife and when she joins the group, she creates a duplicate of herself, you, and your children, and your and her parents or any other living profile you feel should be in the group. Then you merge the group profiles that she created with the group profiles you created which will contain all the information she had under her account and all the information you had under your account.
Now there will be three IDs each for you and your wife: 1) The one under your account only you can see. 2) The one under her account that only she can see. 3) The one under the family group that both of you can see. Both of you can then ignore the first two and only add new information under the group IDs so that both of you are always seeing the same information.
There is a Community group specifically for this Family Group Trees feature that you can join to see some of the know issues with this feature which is still under development and to give feedback as you work with it. The group is found here: https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/321-family-group-trees-feedback-early-access
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@Gordon Collett said " You invite your wife and when she joins the group, she creates a duplicate of herself, you, and your children, and your and her parents or any other living profile you feel should be in the group."
That step is not usually needed. Normally she would simply use the profiles that her husband already added to the Family Group Tree (FGT), which would avoid the extra profile creation and merging. The only reason she would do those extra steps is if she has already created profiles for those persons in her own private space and those profiles have additional information (memories or other details) that will enhance the profiles for those persons that are already in the FGT (or she has profiles for living persons that are not yet in the FGT).
From the original post, it sounds like the wife has a lot more information, even for the husband's family members. So it might make more sense in this particular case to let her add most of the profiles to the FGT, and then the husband can simply use them, without having to create duplicate profiles and merge them. But if both of them have significant unique information for the profiles, then the lengthier process you laid out will be necessary.
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I agree completely. That is why I obscurely mentioned "You and your wife should decide first which of you should create the initial group." Thanks for clarifying my statement.
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