Will be my living people memories findable when I die?
I am uploading pictures of me and my family and I keep them public. I edit their title, description an tag them so my children are able to find them through "Gallery/Find"
My questions are:
- Will my children be able to find those memories once I die? Because I know That FamilySearch will close my account.
- Is FamilySearch platform useful as a journal? Or nobody will see my memories?
Thank you.
Answers
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Here are several related articles about your question: Please look at the related articles at the bottom of this main article: https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/what-are-private-memories https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/who-can-view-the-items-uploaded-to-memories
Once you read through these articles you can make a decision on what you want to do.
Before you share any memories about living people, you should understand that all memories—even those with living people in them—are publicly viewable by default and potentially findable:
- They can be shared through linking, social media, and e-mail.
- They can be found through a topic tag search in FamilySearch Memories.
- They may be found using Google and other search engines.
In the future, memories may be findable in even more ways. Please see our Submission Agreement before adding memories to FamilySearch.
Note: Individual memories can be made private on the individual memory page. Groups of memories can be made private in the Memories gallery.
Hopefully this will help you in your decision.
Thank you for contacting FamilySearch. It has been a pleasure helping you. Best wishes as you continue finding records for your family.
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Thank you for your answer, however is not clear yet what will happen after my death.
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I'll give it a try to answer your question. Really there are two things here. 1- Your account. 2- Your memories.
1- Upon your death, your account is locked. (meaning no one can use your username and password to access FamilySearch.org). All living persons you added into your account will remain living. And at this time, only the person who created the living persons can mark them as deceased. (FamilySearch has talked/hinted about changes to this situation, but nothing has been done so far.)
2- All memories you have attached to deceased people will continue to show in their memories section. And since you are deceased, all memories attached to your person record will be viewable be all. (Because your record will be deceased.) Upon your death, if you have attached memories to "living" persons in your account, those persons will not be viewable. So if you died before marking those living persons deceased, the memories attached to them would be viewable through other options as stated above... but they would never show up on the person's record (when they die) as they would a remain "living" person in your account.
I would not personally use FamilySearch as a journal. Once you are deceased it's viewable by all... and as for me, I don't want my whole journal out there for the world to read.
Hope that helps.
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I think my memories will be visible only if they are marked as "Public" . Thank you.
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Another option is the place your uploaded memories in Album and then share the URL of that album with your children. They should then be able to go the album and correctly link the photos if some links have been lost upon you death. And yes you must have the memories marked public for others to view them.
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note: a journal item marked as "private" would NOT be viewable by all - whether you are alive or deceased.
and the locking and making public of deceased users is really only for LDS accounts
see this link for a detailed discussion
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Would it be possible for Familysearch.org to set up an upload file for post-dated documents? Here's a senerio to help explain what I mean. I want to upload vital documents for living people that will, for the time being, be private (only viewable by account holder) UNTIL a specific date (set by account holder) to make the document viewable and searchable after the post-date entered. Sort of like US Census' are released after 70 years. My thinking behind this: I would be able to upload my children's vital documents that would become public record and searchable by future generations once the document hits the post date entered. Then the documents would not remain prvate and therefore lost upon my death
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well yes - just about anything is technically possible
scenarios like this have been discussed for years now . . . .
there are numerous technical possibilities.
but until FamilySearch actually takes action on a given plan - its all just talk . . .
the discussion on this has occurred over a decade now . . .
I have yet to see any real signs Familyearch is ready to actually take action on a given plan.
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