Get in touch with living relatives - descendants of a common ancestor
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Peter Højvang Christensen said: I am often helping people in our local FHC here in Denmark in finding their ancestors. The users can be Danes but also people from US. Most of them is often trying to find living descendants of a common ancestor - maybe before a visit to the old or the new country of their ancestors.
To help these people (myself included) I would love to get help from FamilySearch.
Would it be an idea make an option to contact living descendants of a common ancestor - something like this:
Being on the 'Details' page of an ancestor there should be a option under 'Tools' saying 'Contact living descendants' - hereby I can send out a message inside FS to all descendant users - but only if they have accepted to receive these email (I do not wish to send out spam emails). This is done with a check-mark in a field in my setting - 'Descendants contact' = Yes, please.
I know that by checking 'Relationships' in 'Settings' I'm able to se my relationship to other users if they have done the same. But I can only do this to users I can find (if the have added information to a person in 'FamilyTree' - not for the ones that are not visble og known to me. This new option will give me access to these unknown users - if they want to be contacted.
With this new option users will be able to get in touch with living descendants easily - wouldn't that be wonderful?
To help these people (myself included) I would love to get help from FamilySearch.
Would it be an idea make an option to contact living descendants of a common ancestor - something like this:
Being on the 'Details' page of an ancestor there should be a option under 'Tools' saying 'Contact living descendants' - hereby I can send out a message inside FS to all descendant users - but only if they have accepted to receive these email (I do not wish to send out spam emails). This is done with a check-mark in a field in my setting - 'Descendants contact' = Yes, please.
I know that by checking 'Relationships' in 'Settings' I'm able to se my relationship to other users if they have done the same. But I can only do this to users I can find (if the have added information to a person in 'FamilyTree' - not for the ones that are not visble og known to me. This new option will give me access to these unknown users - if they want to be contacted.
With this new option users will be able to get in touch with living descendants easily - wouldn't that be wonderful?
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Amy Archibald said: You can contact all the users who make a change or contribution to a person in the Family Tree, by clicking on their user name and sending them a message to see if and how they may be related.
Another idea is to create a Discussion asking for living descendants to contact you.
I have created a Facebook group for an ancestor that I'm planning a reunion for and I've posted a Discussion in Family Tree on that ancestor's page letting other users know about a future reunion and about the Facebook page.
You can also do descendancy research on the common ancestor and identify living descendants - then look them up in online directories and reach out to them.0