How do I prevent others from posting incorrect information on the family tree I started?
How do I prevent others from posting incorrect information on the family tree I started?
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The FamilySearch Family Tree is fully open-edit and collaborative. There is no "my tree" or "your tree." It is meant to be a single tree with one profile for each person who has ever lived.
If you want a tree that no one else can edit, you may want to try the new test project for personal trees:
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@Elaine Zizka Crandall You have posted in the Family Group Trees group. Are you asking about people changing information within the Family Group Tree (living family members) or in the FamilySearch Tree (the interconnected world-wide tree containing profiles for deceased individuals).
Any deceased individual added to the Family Group Tree is actually added to the FamilySearch Tree and only linked to living individuals in your Family Group Tree. So, if you build a Family Group Tree by starting with yourself, add your living parents and then add your deceased grandparents. Your living parents are only visible to members of your family group, but your deceased grandparents are actually created in the public FamilySearch Tree and visible to anyone, not just those in your family group. As Aine posted above, the only way for you to have a private tree that no one can edit that contains deceased individuals is to request to test the User Owned Tree (CETs) Feature or wait for it to go fully live in the future…or you can join another site, such as Ancestry.com or FindMyPast that provides this type of tree.
If you are concerned about other family members changing information on profiles of living individuals that are saved in your Family Group Tree, as an administrator, you can set rules about who can change the information or what information members of your group are allowed to change…and as administrator you can remove group members who doesn't comply with those rules.
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