Users working on community trees
I was successful in uploading a Gedcom file. It was interesting to note that the Gedcom that I chose to start with comes from an effort of many people working on one individual. Once uploaded, I see that all the sources are now attributed to me. Also, this person was enslaved, on FT all those relationships were connected and shown, but are not in the CET. I would love to know if we will be able to use this feature in the future for working a tree for a plantation. The file I started with was from such a project. Will it be possible for the researchers working together be able to access and work on the many individuals on that plantation and work to build out the families. I look forward to using this product and learning more about the features available now. I will spend time reading through the discussions.
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@Cindy Kay Cheney Welcome to early access CET and thank you for your feedback. The tree owner is able to invite individuals to join their CET. Those users are able to edit the tree if given that permission by the owner. Each owner can have up to 10 CET's at a time with an unlimited number of records. Maybe one tree per plantation? Since this is early access, new features are being added regularly. Again, thank you for your feedback.
I will ask the engineering team about the sources being attributed to you.
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@Cindy Kay Cheney,
Thank you for working on the Community Trees. When a Gedcom upload is used to create a tree all of the data in the tree is initially credited to the owner as the contributor. Once the owner/creator of the tree invites other FamilySearch users into the tree, and they accept, they will be able to see and edit all of the data, both living and deceased, in the tree. Additionally all future edits they make in the tree will be credited to their specific user accounts. As an owner, the tree changelog is sortable so that the owner, and other users, will be able to list all the edits made by any other authorized researcher in the tree.
The current limit during early access is 10 CETs per owner, but recent user testing has informed us that this parameter should be increased to 50/owner.
Note: Even through we call the CETs "Trees", they are really logical containers for lineage-linked data. There is no requirement that every person in the CET be connected by relationships. You could have one CET, called something like "Moore County Plantation Genealogies" which contains many individual disconnected trees from each plantation.0 -
@Robert Kehrer, your explanation was so clear and informative. We are going to love using this feature! We are excited to see this become a reality. We are going to work with just this one file to test and figure out exactly what we need to know, then we will be able to provide more feedback. Can I just say, this is brilliant!
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