What happens to the peoples information that are living that I enter, but then I die?
Can any one see that information if the person is living with the privacy rules? If not is their any reason to enter those living peoples names? If I am the only person that knows that connection and they are not a member of the church, How will that information be known if they are never marked deceased because I die before them?
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Yes, the living connects you to he Tree Lines of your deceased ancestors.
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Ron Tanner talked about this exact issue this week on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB929xGnKUo
- If you are not an LDS member, FamilySearch generally won't know you have died; you could assign someone else to take over your account entirely.
- Currently, if you are an LDS member, his advice is to make arrangements with your family for someone else to go into your account and copy details from your living person pages to another account before notification of your death.
- FamilySearch are considering a threshold, perhaps 150 years Before Now, where in Family Tree they unilaterally mark the PID of a "living" person as deceased so the PID complete with all attached Memories pops out to the public tree.
- A prototype is being tested now of private tree spaces shared by groups, to contain only PIDs of living persons. See the link I attached above for details.
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Should I even bother putting people in that are living?
Only if you need a person to connect correctly to a deceased relative -- and even then, you only need enough information for you to know who you're talking about.
For example, I only created a profile on FS for my father's sister when her husband died -- and that profile only has her name, nothing else. Everything else I know about her -- birthplace, birthdate, marriage, children, residences -- is only entered in my offline family tree database. Her FS profile is just a place to connect her late husband.
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Hi Sylvia. Good question.
In most cases, the person's record becomes public after you add a death date to it. The Family Tree does not compute the likelihood that a person in a private space is alive, even if the information on the record shows that the person was born more than 110 years ago.
Private Memories are not associated with private spaces. Attaching a memory to a person in a private space does not make a memory private. Conversely, adding death information to a person in Family Tree makes the person's Family Tree profile public, but all private memories attached to that person remain private.
https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/what-is-a-private-space-in-family-tree
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If I create a new person in my tree and put them as living, then I die, Is this information inaccessible to others? If this is the case, Should I even bother putting people in that are living?
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Should I even bother putting people in that are living?
I don't bother. It is not necessary.
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When I do make a page in my FT private space usually I do not include a name. The page is just a link.
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why would i spend two years entering my family, my wifes family, my grandparents family on both sides, my wifes birth mother family and families of her siblings? do these just get gobbled up in the nether world?
Is ancestry.com the same. Is there a site on the internet where we can look at the immediate family of siblings, cousins, inlaws, children and their children
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Ancestry is Not the same. Ancestry has a process by which family can apply to take over the account of a deceased relative. The steps are in a help article. FamilySearch has no such process at the present time.
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why would i spend two years entering my family [...]? do these just get gobbled up in the nether world?
Short answer: if they are living, don't enter them here.
If a family member passes before you do, then you can release their profile into the public tree. Else they go into FamilySearch limbo.
Recently one of my long-time collaborators passed. Many members of my collaborator's immediate family are FamilySearch contributors. Multiple profiles of my collaborator entered the public tree space and I had the sad honor of merging them.
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