my memories

Lorina Cardon

If I put memories on my own page and/or the pages of living family members in FamilySearch, and I die, what happens to those memories?

Thanks!

Áine Ní Donnghaile

This Help Article may be useful: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/what-happens-to-memories-submitted-by-a-deceased-user

Dennis J Yancey

If you are LDS - and when you pass your ward clerk marks your membership record as deceased
those items that were hooked to your profile in FS - will now show - when your now marked "deceased" membership record passes to FamilySearch.

if you are not LDS - your user account will probably never be marked as deceased. It will just go then unused after your decease - and because of this no one will be able to navigate to the record under which your memories are hooked.

For any other persons who are LIVING - for which YOU added the living record under your account.
Those profiles will never be marked deceased (after you pass) because you are the only person that can mark them as deceased. and thus no one will be able to navigate to these people - because it is marked as a living person even though they may be later dead.

Note however the following Caveat:

Any item that is marked as PRIVATE will forever be private unless it is changed to Public. And if you are not around to change it to Public - then it stays private.

Technically speaking - the act of hooking a memory to a living person - does NOT really, in and of istelf, secure such an item as "Private" and innaccessible to others. Though indeed other people wont be able to "navigate to the profile" to which they are attached as long as such profile is marked as "living"

ANY item that you upload - whether hooked to a living person or a deceaed person or not hooked to anyone at all - and if left marked at PUBLIC - can be viewed by anyone in the system (if they know the URL of the item, or the url of an album it belongs to, or by navigating to a deceased person - if it is indeed hooked to a deceased person)

So a good practice is to put all your uploads for living people in albums, leave them marked as public and
then give the URL of the album to close family who will be ale to see those items after your decease.
also consider that any items that are public are SEARCHABLE via the FIND option - based on key words in the title and descritpion - thus another way to keep them accessible JUST to the people you shared the URL with and no one else - is to leave off any title and description and using the comment field to show that info - so that the URL is the only way to get to it.

For many of the above reasons - many people feel it is a waste of time to create familytree profiles for any large number of living persons - because those profiles can only be seen by you and you only while you are living - and after your decease - no one. The one exception to this is a facility that I think is still in beta - called Family Tree groups. Im not sure the current status of "Family Tree Groups" - but it would be the one way to get around much of what I have disucssed above.

These and various other topics are discussed in detail on these two pages:

https://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/when_you_pass_away.htm

https://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/when_others_pass_away.htm

Most FS help center articles on this subject (of what happens when we die) usually give a verse short direct answer but often just dont answer the real questions the person is really tryting to ascertain when they ask these lines of questions.

Also be sure and dont confuse the rules that apply to FamilyTree Profiles for living people you created under your account -versus- the rules that apply to MEMORIES items that you upload (that may be linked to living people or not linked to anyone at all). What applies to one is not (necessarily) the same that applies to the other.