Adding living people without duplicating them
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BeatrizM said: I was recently contacted here by a distant cousin who started working in her tree and saw part of it already done by me. We have some old realtives still living but she cannot see and wanted to add them.
We are exchanging info and a lot of the people we want to add are living and I wonder how can we add people without duplicating them.
I imagine in the future people working in their trees and wondering why we put so many duplicates (something like I do now when I see so many entries of the same person).
Is there any solution to this? If the issue is privacy, I totally understand it, why not indicate ‘private person’ or ‘living person’ so next time I want to add someone already there it will show me the occupied space without the information.
Something like Ancestry or MyHeritage, you only see the ancestors but not the living people unless you have authorization from the tree builder. But since here in FS we all are builders of the tree at least show for example that a persons is married and the children they have, without names or dates.
Thank you for considering this useful change.
We are exchanging info and a lot of the people we want to add are living and I wonder how can we add people without duplicating them.
I imagine in the future people working in their trees and wondering why we put so many duplicates (something like I do now when I see so many entries of the same person).
Is there any solution to this? If the issue is privacy, I totally understand it, why not indicate ‘private person’ or ‘living person’ so next time I want to add someone already there it will show me the occupied space without the information.
Something like Ancestry or MyHeritage, you only see the ancestors but not the living people unless you have authorization from the tree builder. But since here in FS we all are builders of the tree at least show for example that a persons is married and the children they have, without names or dates.
Thank you for considering this useful change.
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Tom Huber said: Privacy Laws, both local and international, dictate that we must not reveal information on living persons. Some areas of the world are far more strict than others.
Until FamilySearch works out how we can legally share a living person's record with others, I would do no more than set up a place marker for living persons between myself and my deceased ancestors.
As to some of your suggestions... even indicating that there is a living person who is a child of deceased parents is not something that FamilySearch currently allows. I am no expert on all the various privacy laws around the world, so I don't know why they did that.
Until recently, we could not even attach sources to the living persons we have in our private spaces. At the present time, any tree search (Find) will not locate any living person we have entered into our private space.
Something else to keep in mind is that there are no individual trees in FamilySearch FamilyTree. It is all one tree for all mankind.
But the bottom line is that Privacy Rules dictate what can and cannot be done with living persons. There are issues to consider and, more importantly, new rules regarding privacy can be enacted at any time. It would be horrible if certain aspects of living persons (possibly shared) would suddenly disappear because of a newly enacted law.
I'm not against the idea of working with a single record for a living person, but there are aspects that could be adversely impacted by new laws, wherever they may be enacted.0 -
BeatrizM said: Thank you, Tom.
I suspected what you have just explained.0