Can youth really obtain a free LDS account with Ancestry
All were denied an Ancestry account as not authorised for a free account.
Can anyone report any 13-17 year olds actually obtaining a free LDS Ancestry account?
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Lynne VanWagenen said: From which page did you try to begin the registration process?
You must start from https://familysearch.org/partneraccess. If you start at Ancestry.com, you won't be able to get the free account.0 -
Stewart Millar said: Good point Lynne - but that is where we did start.
I think it is more to do with the somewhat "hidden" instructions:
"(13- to 17-year-old youth can sign up for the Ancestry.com account with parental permission. The parents' email address will be entered, and the parents will need to sign in to verify the account.)"
We have not yet been able to arrange a test of this with a youth and a parent present at the same time.
It looks like . . . the "youth" account may actually be a sub-account of the parent's ancestry LDS subscription.
Not quite the way in which the ancestry access for the youth was announced.
And if my assumption about the youth account is as above - it will not cover youth whose parents are not members and possible be difficult if their parents are less active.
I'm still trying to find anyone who has successfully enrolled an LDS youth with Ancestry.0 -
Lynne VanWagenen said: Ancestry's normal conditions of use stipulate that users must be 18 or older. The parental email is a means of getting permission for LDS youth ages 13-17 create accounts. Once the parent clicks the link to give permission, the youth can create an account. It isn't a subaccount or anything like that. The parent does not have to be a member to give permission.0
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Gordon Collett said: I have a very patient and good natured 17 year old at home who is used to me making him experiment with things such as this. I'll have him sit down tomorrow evening and we will give this a try if you don't have any documented success stories by then. Do you have any other suspicions, as to what happened to the youth you had try, that we can be on the watch for?
One question, did you have the youth go through the set up process then immediately try to sign in? Maybe they have to set up the account, wait for their parents to receive an e-mail and reply to that e-mail, then sign in. Maybe there is a poorly worded error statement that says "you are not authorized for this account" when it should say "your parent has not yet authorized this account for you." Since I haven't looked at this yet, this is pure guess work at this point.0 -
Gordon Collett said: Stewart, establishing a youth account for Ancestry.com went just fine when we tried it tonight aside from one minor hiccup.
We started from this screen:
Clicking on "Learn More" brought us here:
Clicking on "Join for Free" took us to this screen:
The first time I put in my e-mail address, clicked the check box and clicked "Send E-mail," nothing happened. The page just reloaded and I had to put in the e-mail address and click the box again. The second time we clicked "Send E-mail" we came to this page:
It not being entirely clear what to do at this point, my son typed in his Family Search account name and password. That brought us here:
Since he was not converting a paid account over, he clicked the red button to come here,
then the "Accept" button. He was asked to choose a language,
and set up an Ancestry account password.
One last condition to agree to:
And he was done.
His new Ancestry account works just fine.0 -
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I and others have been critical about "discussions" being closed before other users have had time to make an input and/or have it confirmed (by the original poster) a response was an accepted answer.
However, in the case of these "Legacy" items (carried across from the old GetSatisfaction.com forum) I think it would be safe to accept the items have now been resolved. This particular one dates back nearly seven years, so the original poster (Stewart Millar) had plenty of time to come back (to the now defunct forum) to say whether or not his point had been addressed.
I see the need for moderators to be consistent over this issue, but many GetSat forum participants (of many years ago) might not be visiting this Community platform, so you might not be able to get an answer to the question you are posing here.
If I were you, I would check FamilySearch policy on these Legacy posts (that are appearing in dribs and drabs, I assume from the "Other - Triaged" section). I believe @Caleb L might be the best person to offer general advice how moderators should deal with the issue of addressing Legacy posts.
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Thank you. Being fairly new to this new Community format, I didn't notice the posting date. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
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