Copying living Family Group records/profiles to FamilySearch Tree

combblai

I tried copying living Family Group records/profiles to FamilySearch Tree using the ID found in the Family Group tree.

1. I clicked on ADD SPOUSE in FamilySearch Tree and entered ID
2. Was presented correctly with person/profile from Family Group tree
   

3. I clicked on ADD MATCH and it says relationship added but it doesn't actually add the relationship.

Is this a problem because I'm trying to work in FamilySearch Tree in one tab and my Family Group tree in another?

If yes, can I copy from Family Group tree to FamilySearch tree if I'm in a different browser?

AnneLoForteWillson

You cannot connect two individuals who are in different trees. Currently you can only COPY from your FamilySearch Tree into a Family Group Tree. You cannot COPY from a Family Group Tree into your FamilySearch Tree nor can you COPY from one Family Group Tree into another one.

Could you tell me when or why you would want to copy from a Family Group Tree into your FamilySearch Tree?

Also, I edited your screenshot to hide information on living individuals. This is for privacy and safety, per the Code of Conduct.

combblai

Your question: Why you would want to copy from a Family Group Tree into your FamilySearch Tree?

My answer: While in a Family Group Tree, while performing research you create a new record/profile for a deceased person and, consequently, want this to show up in the FamilySearch Tree for everyone to see. Of course, it would be nice if the creation of a deceased profile in a Family Group Tree would automatically create the profile in the FamilySearch Tree, but some may not want this to happen. Perhaps a button could be created to simplify this function when desirable.

Apparently, at this time we are required to manually duplicate the entry in the FamilySearch Tree?

Perhaps I am misunderstanding how the link between the Family Group Tree and FamilySearch Tree works.

Alan E. Brown

For deceased individuals, you are seeing the exact same public profile when you are in a Family Group Tree as you are seeing in the FamilySearch Tree. Only the private profiles are unique to your Family Group Tree. So there is no need for a copy function for deceased persons.

Conceptually, it's important to realize that there is only one set of public profiles. Suppose that there are 1,000,000,000 public profiles in Family Tree (there are more, but a billion is a nice round number), and that you have 100 private (mostly living) profiles in your own FamilySearch Tree, and that there are 200 private profiles in your Family Group Tree. Then when you are working in your own FamilySearch Tree, you'll see 1,000,000,100 total people. When you are working in your Family Group Tree, you'll see 1,000,000,200 total people. The 1,000,000,000 public people will all be the same — not copies, but the exact same persons with the same Person IDs.

AnneLoForteWillson

That is correct. All deceased individuals (except for a relatively small number who for one reason or another are restricted profiles) are part of the FamilySearch Tree (the big, interconnected one that everyone can access). If you are working in a Family Group Tree and you move to work on an individual who is deceased, all of the edits that you make to that individual are also visible to anyone else looking at him in the FamilySearch Tree or their own Family Group Tree.

combblai

When I added a deceased person under Family Group Tree, I still had to add the same person under the FamilySearch Tree in order to work with them there. Note: I'm trying to avoid adding deceased profiles under Family Group Tree, as a result. However, I suspect the same problem will arise if I change a living profile to deceased within a Family Group Tree.

They copy function would be a button within Family Group Tree to streamline the process of pushing a deceased person profile to FamilySearch Tree.

Alan E. Brown

@combblai No, you absolutely do not need to add a deceased person to the FamilySearch Tree after you have added them to the Family Group Tree. They are already part of the one and only one public Family Tree that contains all the public deceased persons. If you add them again, you will create a duplicate.

I wonder if you are having some difficulty finding the newly-added deceased person because that new person you added to the FGT does not yet have relationships to some living persons in the FamilySearch Tree. The fix for that is not to add the deceased person again, but to create those relationships.

J Wolfgang R Binte

It also would help to write down the ID-number or look the deceased up in the recently seen persons ..