Is there a way to stop other people from editing and/or adding to my information?
Some person I don't know added my mother and uncle to my information on August 19th and marked both of them deceased. My uncle at the time was LIVING. He passed away on the 28th or 29th and when I logged on to change the date I found duplicate entries including the entry that predated his death by TEN DAYS. It was very upsetting. I sent a **** letter to the person who is not related to me and made all these changes deleting relationships and people. It is a tradition in my family to name the babies after the deceased and he removed children from their parents. I have been working on this information for 40 years and know what I am talking about. Can you lock your tree so that people need to send you a message before messing with your research??
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Victoriawm's response is not helpful.
How do I lock my family tree to keep someone else from adding names to it? I just received a name that is not a member of my family along with a string of his relatives that were joined with him. How can someone add to my family tree without my permission? How can I prevent this from happening? How do I remove these names?
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You appear not to have understood the open-edit format of Family Tree before you began participating. No, there is nothing you can do to stop anybody - from close relative to someone of no known relationship whatsoever - from adding names to the branch of the tree to which your ancestors and relatives are added. You do not have your own family tree here (even if it's been just you who has previously added all the details), so nobody needs any permission to amend your work.
If other users make errors, you have to correct these yourself, although you should try to contact them in order to query their additions / changes. Hopefully, they will be responsive and you can resolve any differences of opinion.
In view of the nature Family Tree, you should always keep your data backed-up in another program that cannot be edited by anybody else. Also, you can download your family tree to the Genealogies section of the FamilySearch website, where it cannot be edited, either.
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Generally when a large group of non-relatives are added it means that someone has made an incorrect relationship either a wrong couple or a wrong child to parent. Find the incorrect relationship and remove it by clicking the little pencil icon in the relationship box then remove.
General comment, we cannot "Lock" a tree. We do not have individual trees (other that your private Living area). There is only the one shared tree in FS Family Tree.
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