How can I secure my family's temple work
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The genealogical purpose of the FamilySearch FamilyTree is to make a "one world tree" that features every person just once. The benefits are that there is increased colloboration between genealogists and research is not duplicated. Of course when incorrect edits are made there are major downsides to this model. I am not a Latter Day Saint, but I believe the same reasoning applies to the religious side of the FSFT- the aim is to prevent duplicate ordinances. The One World Tree nature of the FSFT is fundamental and is unlikely to ever be changed. FS does have a feature where you can submit you family tree via GEDCOM that cannot be edited by anyone else, but I don't know if you can then do ordinances on those profiles.
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The genealogical purpose of the FamilySearch FamilyTree is to make a "one world tree" that features every person just once. The benefits are that there is increased colloboration between genealogists and research is not duplicated. Of course when incorrect edits are made there are major downsides to this model. I am not a Latter Day Saint, but I believe the same reasoning applies to the religious side of the FSFT- the aim is to prevent duplicate ordinances. The One World Tree nature of the FSFT is fundamental and is unlikely to ever be changed. FS does have a feature where you can submit you family tree via GEDCOM that cannot be edited by anyone else, but I don't know if you can then do ordinances on those profiles.
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It is important to realize that the ancestors in "your family's tree" that you are referring to are not related to just you alone. They will have hundreds if not thousands of other FS patrons that are ALSO related to them. There could easily be DOZENS of just 1st cousins alone!
All of those patrons have just as much right to do that work as you do (subject to the 110 year limitations of course). Many of them may also be even more closely related to those individuals in the tree than you are. Also note that many of those people that ARE related to your kindred, may not actually be related to YOU (these relate through in-laws/marriages)
For example, you may have the privilege of doing the work for your great aunt in-law (i.e., her husband, your great uncle, is your blood line. You are related to her only by their marriage--i.e., the law binding them together). But any descendants of her parents through her other siblings are not related to you and you normally cannot do the work for them. However, any one of those descendants can do the work for your great aunt because she is also an aunt to most of this other descendants.
Given a person's ancestor, a lot of people just don't realize how many other people are truly related to that ancestor in a not so distant way.
And as A van Helsdingen has alluded to, the system has been specifically designed to allow the very capabilities that you are specifically asking to be removed.
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It is important to realize that the ancestors in "your family's tree" that you are referring to are not related to just you alone. They will have hundreds if not thousands of other FS patrons that are ALSO related to them. There could easily be DOZENS of just 1st cousins alone!
All of those patrons have just as much right to do that work as you do (subject to the 110 year limitations of course). Many of them may also be even more closely related to those individuals in the tree than you are. Also note that many of those people that ARE related to your kindred, may not actually be related to YOU (these relate through in-laws/marriages)
For example, you may have the privilege of doing the work for your great aunt in-law (i.e., her husband, your great uncle, is your blood line. You are related to her only by their marriage--i.e., the law binding them together). But any descendants of her parents through her other siblings are not related to you and you normally cannot do the work for them. However, any one of those descendants can do the work for your great aunt because she is also an aunt to most of this other descendants.
Given a person's ancestor, a lot of people just don't realize how many other people are truly related to that ancestor in a not so distant way.
And as A van Helsdingen has alluded to, the system has been specifically designed to allow the very capabilities that you are specifically asking to be removed.
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A van Heldingen,
The only records that can be submitted for ordinance work are those in the FamilySearch FamilyTree database. The Genealogies database (which in part contains searchable trees imported via GEDCOM files) can not be used for submitting names at all. The information must be copied over into the actual FSFT before it can be reserved and submitted.
The problem with the GEDCOM uploaded files is that the GEDCOM Compare tool makes it far too easy to either intentionally or in ignorance damage many FSFT records and create many duplicates in a very short amount of time with little effort on the part of the person migrating the data from their GEDCOM data into the FSFT.
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A van Heldingen,
The only records that can be submitted for ordinance work are those in the FamilySearch FamilyTree database. The Genealogies database (which in part contains searchable trees imported via GEDCOM files) can not be used for submitting names at all. The information must be copied over into the actual FSFT before it can be reserved and submitted.
The problem with the GEDCOM uploaded files is that the GEDCOM Compare tool makes it far too easy to either intentionally or in ignorance damage many FSFT records and create many duplicates in a very short amount of time with little effort on the part of the person migrating the data from their GEDCOM data into the FSFT.
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