If my brother and I would like to collaborate together about the our deceased relatives, does he nee
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Did this ever get answered? I have the same question.
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I suggest that you read this link. He will need to get an account in his own name. once he has this he adds the living relatives manually and once he connect to a deceased person, he will be able to use the same IDs as you are using
This blog is helpful
https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/how-to-connect-to-a-family-members-tree
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If you are doing this with a relative who is also very new to FamilySearch, I recommend a video call. My nephew wanted to be able to see everything I do in either FamilySearch or Ancestry, but he didn't want to take the time to learn (don't laugh or criticize people, this kind of interest is a GOOD thing). He had already done a DNA test for me in Ancestry, so we scheduled an online meeting, he shared his screen, and I walked him through all the set up needed to 1) create his account, create his live ancestors to connect to his deceased ancestors in FamilySearch where I have done work and 2) link his DNA test to my tree in Ancestry and me share my tree with him so he can connect and see his ancestors in my tree there. Because he immediately wanted to walk through all his ancestors, the call actually lasted several hours, but the "business" part was easily 30-45 minutes for FamilySearch and Ancestry combined. User15932927643604743949 you can probably do it fairly quickly with your brother if you are well versed in talking him through creating the account and creating the live people to connect to your deceased ancestors on all your branches.
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Just for the record, to link yourself to deceased ancestors it is not strictly necessary to create profiles of living persons. It isn't even necessary to link your "self" profile to them. One alternative is to find them in the tree and Follow them. This provides the greatest privacy for living persons.
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Yes, but dontiknowyou but that doesn't make any sense when working with close relatives who are new at this. My nephew needs to see how he relates to some of these distant ancestors of ours, and he can't do that by following great grandparents (or whatever) that are seen NOT in the context of lineage to him. How will he see how his family is organized? Following people without establishing a link to them is more of an academic pursuit (or a bookmark!) for people in lineage research OR for paying attention to a particular ancestors whose seem to be the subject of fantastic creation theories or 25 spouses.
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Well, for someone who needs the relational context made explicit, the intervening generations can be represented with profiles as minimal as F, M, p GF, p GM, m GF, m GM.
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I have occasional online meetings with relatives and I also send screen shots via email. In my case, I want all the living people I have on my tree identifiable in my meetings and screen shots so that everyone can understand WHAT part of the family this is about. They need anchors. If my nephew would want to have short hand for his mother, that is fine as long 1) he remembers and 2) he doesn't start showing stuff to his family and they don't know what they are looking at because he used short hand. For living people who need to be on my trees (because either they have asked me to do their family tree or one of their children has asked me) I always have first name only and a photo I grabbed off their public facebook profile. It would make no sense for someone (like me) in the business of educating their families to have cryptic IDs on living persons. I would say that applies as well to the original poster, User15932927643604743949. Hopefully that makes sense.
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