How can a living family member 'claim' the person I created for them?
I added a living family member under my login. However now that family member wants to use Family Search but cannot see the person (them) that I created because they're living. They created their own person/profile and connected to the same parents. However I can't see the person they created for themselves since they are living.
We can't merge by ID because you can't merge two living people.
How can my family member claim the person I created for them or how can we merge the two living profiles so there aren't duplicates?
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Hello @SamHoy !!
Unfortunately, you are unable to merge living relatives with your main tree due to confidentiality. This has also been challenging to me. Please see the following article:
However, you can create a new "Family Group" to establish a new "Family Group Tree" to collaborate with other family members to share photos and other memorabilia. Here's how you do this:
All the best!
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Be aware, however, that in creating a Family Group containing your living relative, this will create a third profile for that person which both of you will be able to see and work on together. Decide first if you want to do that. You will still be the only user that can use the original profile you created. And your relative will be the only user that can use the profile that relative created.
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@Gordon Collett is correct!!
Also, this tool to create a "new Family Tree" (for collaboration with living relatives) is in the experimental phase. When you login to your account, it's found on the right column scrolling down about midway under "FamilySearch Labs (View Experiments)." Then, you'll see "Family Group Trees."
I've used it successfully with my daughter.
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There is no way to merge living people or profiles. When a person has passed away the duplicates are easly merged.
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