How to share my family tree with non-member family members.

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Patricia Marie Richetto said: How do I set up an online sharing experience with my non-member family long distance over the phone? I want them to see what a great source www.familysearch.org is for preserving vintage photos, family stories and family records. Is there a way they can visit my family tree without giving them my user name and password?

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Gordon Collett said: Since everyone sees the same tree (except for the records of living individuals that you have entered) all they need to do is open their own account and take a look. They might get put into the Quick Start section and asked if they want to enter information about their family, but they don't need to do that. If you send them URLs for the relatives you want them to take a look at, they can jump directly to those people.

(Someone is sure to post here that you don't have a family tree here, you are looking at the one, single, comprehensive tree that we all share, so I'll get that statement out of the way here.)

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Dennis Lee Johnson said: You can give them your username and helper number and they will be able to see your tree. In this way they won't have your password but would be able to make entries which you may not want them to do.

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David Nay said: Your Family that are not members of the church will not see temple information nor will they have the "help others" opportunity. If you, as a member, want to see what they see go to your preferences and turn off temple. Recently that feature broke, but it may be working now, and if not now, soon.

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Tom Huber said: I consider this a bad idea. Have them create their own account and provide an explanation of how to get to Family Tree. They cannot see any ordinance data and cannot see any living persons that you enter, including yourself, so you will need to provide the PID and how to use it to see a "root person" in Family Tree.

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Patricia Marie Richetto said: Thank for everyones' comments. Very helpful!
I have visited cousins in person and helped them set up a non-member LDS account; but, never tried to maneuver it over the telephone. So, I wanted suggestions for the best way to handle that introduction to family history.

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Ulisses Sousa Penna said: Hi, since all the deceased individuals have public records, the record of the living individuals are the item of discussion here (at least I think).
In order to keep control and at the same time give a little bit freedom for other individuals see or even edit records of living people, I think FamilySearch.org should have, at the user's configuration, an option to add others FamilySearch usernames that could edit or only read living records the user maintain.
For example, If that option were implemented I could add my brother's username (FamilySearch's username), and allow him to edit my parent's and grandparent's records.
Another example: I could add my cousin to that same option, but allowing him/her, only to read the records.
In summary: should be an option, at the user's configuration, that would allow me to add usernames (FamilySearch's usernames) and choose if that username could Edit or only read records. Simple as that.

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Jeff Wiseman said: This is a very common request, and from what I have heard, FS is actively looking at some ways to accomplish this that will not be in violation of recent international privacy laws.

Also note that you've attached your comment to a 4 year old topic (as you can see the interest for such a capability has been around for a long time :-)

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Robert Wren said: As it is very easy to create one's OWN account in FS and for privacy and other reasons, I would suggest NOT sharing passwords. Let everyone be responsible for themselves!

The fine print:
"You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your sign-in name and password. You are responsible for all activities that occur using this sign-in name and password. If someone else uses your sign-in name and password in such a way as to breach the terms of this Agreement, you remain responsible for his/her actions, and use of your sign-in name may be suspended or terminated."

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Ulisses Sousa Penna said: NOT sharing passwords .. yes .. I do NOT want/intend to do it .. 8-).
I've seen there is a way to use a Helper number in order to do what I want. I already have found the helper number. What I have NOT found is how to enter in a "helper mode". I have the username and the helper number. But I do not know to enter in a helper mode. Does anyone know? Thank you very much for the quick reply.

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Jeff Wiseman said: yea, remember that every single thing in the tree that is added, modified, or deleted from your account is marked with your specific ID! That is the identifier that everyone can see and use if they need to get in touch with you or message you.

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joe martel said: Only a LDS member can help another user.
To this the member - Helper, would click "Help Others" and provide the user's info and that user's helper number (that is seen in their account info). Then this Helper member can see and work in the other user's tree.

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Tom Huber said: Privacy laws control access to living person records in the massive tree and are very restrictive, depending upon the jurisdiction. Because FamilySearch is an international site, the most stringent laws are observed by FamilySearch.

As Jeff mentioned, FamilySearch is looking for a way to allow one user to share people in their private space with another user or other users.