Inactive accounts

Dennis J Yancey

Inactive accounts

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Question: FamilySearch is a collaborative system that allows people to make updates or upload info. When they do this - there user id is on file in the change log - and other areas - that allows any other user to send them a message.

 

HOWEVER - what happens if the original user has there account closed - due to the being deceased?

OR what happens if the account was closed due to other reasons?

OR what happens if the account has been inactive for many years?

OR what happens if the email on file no longer exists?

 

will the second person - who wants to contact the 1st person (who made the update/submission) have any indication that the person is deceased or account closed - or invalid email??

Or they have no idea - and they send a message and it just goes into Limbo Land??

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I hadn't thought about this...I want to know too!

Dennis J Yancey

the answer appears to be that FamilySearch is doing "nothing" and any message sent just goes into limbo.

Robert Givens

@Dennis J Yancey​ - that would be my take on this too. I assume you are talking about not just Community but FamilySearch in general - right? I believe this is correct in that I can still send a message to my cousin John Getz who died a long time ago by clicking on his name in FS where he contributed things (often incorrect no less.)

 

Dennis J Yancey

I was referring to FamilySearch Family tree

Diane J Seipert

Agreed, I can still send a message to my nephew who died 8 years ago. The issue is what happens to that Tree? Can it go into an area created for it? We have "Genealogies" could we do something similar for Trees whose Owners are no longer available?

Dennis J Yancey

what do you mean by "trees"

 

FamilySeatch Family Tree is ONE collaborative database

if your nephew was updating FamilyTree - - it is the same database and tree that all of us are viewing and updating.

(the one exception to this is people who were marked as "living"

There is no concept of "my tree" vs "your tree" in FamilyTree

it is one global database for all of humanity (at least for all of those entered so far)