living minor children don't show up
I am helping my daughter-in-law with her tree. Her living, minor children are not showing up in her tree. Shouldn't they automatically populate from the church records?
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It is my understanding that when a Member dies and the ward clerk marks them as such - their ordinances will populate onto the first deceased entry. Then all family members that had a living entry of that person would mark them also as deceased and then merge those entries into one common entry PID.
What the Church does not do is link living people together for you, or automatically populate - as you ask. All living entries must be manually created separate and distinct on each FamilySearch login.
This will be true even for spouses with their own logins - they will each have to add their joint children to their separate accounts. These kids will have distinct PID's as well.
All of this to keep private living people - private. Here's a great starter article:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/what-is-a-private-space-in-family-tree
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If your daughter-in-law has created Family Tree profiles for living people, you won't be able to see them. This is normal in the collaborative FamilySearch Family Tree, for privacy reasons.
If one of you creates a Family Group Tree (FGT), however, and invites the other (and any other people you'd like to have access to the information) to join it, living people entered there will be visible to all invitees. FGT living profiles can be linked to deceased profiles in the 'main' Tree in the normal way.
I hope this helps, please do post again if not.
@Jack Hern we don't know from the OP's post whether they are LDS.
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Contrary to @Jack Hern's claim, FamilySearch can use information in LDS Church membership records to construct tree person profiles and relationships for the account holder, spouse, parents, and children as the FamilySearch account is created. This is surely what the OP was referring to (it's understandable that @MandyShaw1 might not be aware of this capability).
However, this capability has changed over the years, and how it works is dependent on several factors. I've always been disappointed that this is poorly documented (basically not documented at all, although there are some oblique allusions to it in a couple of Help Center documents).
It's essential that the Church Membership Record Number (MRN) is connected to the account as it is initially created. If it is not connected at that time, then the initial tree will consist only of the account holder's profile, and all other living persons and eventual connections to existing deceased person profiles in the Tree will have to be created manually.
It also matters what information is on the membership record, and whether it is sufficiently detailed and connected to other membership records for the spouse, parents, and children, and how those other membership records may be connected to existing deceased persons in Family Tree (in the case where those related persons are deceased).
For the situation in the OP, we don't know if the MRN was connected to the FamilySearch account as it was created, so it's difficult to know if the living children should have been automatically populated or not.
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@WingerLymanRay No, when you create a FamilySearch account, the only living people profiles that are automatically created are parents and grandparents needed to connect to the deceased ancestors AND those are only created if all of those generations were members of the church. You will need to create any other living profiles yourself…or join a family group that is sharing a tree.
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