Desire Private FS Tree

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Larron Campbell said: PRIVATE TREE SUGGESTION
I would hope and wish for FS private trees that nobody could change.
FS could copy my tree to their site for the one family tree and still allow me to look at the FS tree for hints.
It would be nice if it didn’t make so many changes without having video step by step reviewable instructions.
I would be gladly pay to get a private FS tree?

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Juli said: If you want a private tree, use a site that does private trees, such as MyHeritage or Ancestry. The former will even gladly take your money to let you see what you've put on FS. (Ancestry puts the paywalls too soon for me to know whether they sell FS FT data. I know they sell index entries and images that come from FS, though.)

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Paul said: Larron

You already raised this (2 years ago) under thread at https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea....

Tom Huber's comments there, and Juli's above, accurately address the position.

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Tom Huber said: Your desire for a private tree is covered by using a personal family tree management program that can interface with FamilySearch.

There are a number of programs in the Solutions Gallery, but only three of them (Ancestral Quest, Legacy, and Roots Magic) have the ability to download your ancestral lines to a fresh database.

Aside from the private tree sites, the real answer to your needs is your own personal tree and database on your local computer. Roots Magic can support a mobile tree and operate from a portable USB device.

While Ancestral Quest should be able to do this, the current design will record its initialization to the local computer and that does not work well if the local computer already has the program installed.

I don't know the details about Legacy and its portability capabilities.

The three that I have mentioned are fully certified programs. The rest lack full certification and while they can often read FS Family Tree, the ability to update the tree is lacking.

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Jeff Wiseman said: Also, FS is not a for profit organization since it is based totally on supporting the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Allowing everyone to have their own personal trees would increase the need for physical resources in the number of servers, memory, and backup storage very substantially--that's why you have to pay for the privilege at for profit sites that support this structure and provide you with all of the personal storage space that you need.

Regardless of how many people might be willing to pay for it, I don't think that the Church wants to be selling services of any kind.

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Adrian Bruce said: You can load your tree to one of the Genealogies under Search / Genealogies - that would be private in the sense that no-one else can update it. Including yourself, I believe. But those are completely separate from the massive, open-edit tree, so would not get any hints. Believe me, I share anyone's pain at having "their" data trampled on but the only way that you can do it is to have something physically separate, such as a database on your own PC that can be synched in some manner under your control, as Tom suggests.

FS are just not going to change the nature of the beast now, especially when people can use personal databases on their own PCs that can sync in some fashion - which satisfies the independent requirement, I believe.

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Don M Thomas said: I have accepted the open edit concept of the FamilySearch "Family Tree," but like Larron Campbell will always wish and dream the database was a locked private tree or database, and also an open edit database. https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...

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A van Helsdingen said: There are various software and websites that allow you to build a personal tree.

FamilySearch allows Latter Day Saints to "synchronise" their family tree on the FSFT with MyHeritage or Ancestry.com. If you don't have a family tree on those websites the synchroniser will automatically generate one for you. If you then cancel the synchroniser after doing that, you have created for yourself a personal tree that no-one else can edit.

You can also submit a GEDCOM to the "Genealogies" section of the website. This is read-only. Others can search these trees and contact you if they wish, but cannot edit.

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Tom Huber said: The uploader can delete and then upload a new version of their tree to Genealogies. But no, it cannot be edited.

I don't know quickly a newly uploaded tree becomes searchable, but they can be searched.

"Genealogies" is basically the successor to the old CD-based Ancestral File and CD-based Pedigree Resource File collections.