I want to know how to connect my living relatives to help me with our Family History.
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You can't connect living people because of privacy laws. You have to create your living relatives as "placeholders" so you can connect to your deceased relatives which are viewable by everyone in the tree. Remember it is one shared tree (open edit) and any person can view or edit any deceased person in the tree. I hope that helps. If anyone knows of more current information please correct me! I heard that FS was working on shared spaces to give permission to share living ID#s but I don't think that's an option yet.
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Ways to connect with living relatives:
- Find out email addresses of siblings, cousins, other close relatives and start corresponding with them about family history. This will help you with #1. Also, consider social media. For instance, you can create a Facebook group for a branch of your extended family, or you might find one already created. People both in and out of the Church are interested in family history. If you are not into social media yet, a younger member of your extended family can help you. Just be judicious about what information about yourself you put into your profile.
- If you have not done so already, in FamilySearch create a tree of your parents, grandparents, etc. far enough back to connect with some deceased people. Talk to your local family history consultant for help with this if you need it. When you enter the name and some basic info on a deceased person, you will find that suggestions come up for people that have already been entered by others. If one of these is the right person, then you have connected with a collaborative tree.
- When you have completed #2, you will start to see others have contributed information on the deceased people. For example, look on any 'Person' page of a deceased relative and see on the right side Latest Changes. The contact names of the people who contributed information are shown in blue. Clicking on one of these provides you with one or two possible ways to communicate:
- Send a message: This uses a private channel provided by FamilySearch to send messages back and forth without giving out an email address. The messages and responses can be accessed by clicking on Message in the upper right corner of any FamilySearch page if you are signed in. Explore the tabs Conversations, Discoveries, General, etc.
- Email address. This only shows if the person set her/his profile to show it.
You can make your own email visible to others by clicking on your name in the upper right corner of any FamilySearch page and selecting Settings. Then go to the Contact tab and check the box labelled Public by your email address.
Incidentally, if you also check the Public box by 'Enable Relationship Viewing', then whenever you click on a contact name of someone who has also enabled relationship viewing, you will see how you are related. This is really cool! If they haven't done so, you can click 'request to see relationship' and see if they respond.
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Good old phone or snail mail helps with #1 in the previous post :-)
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Another idea is to look up your ancestors on Ancestry.com and contact those that have public trees with your ancestors in them as they are likely your cousins.
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It is also possible to use the “Helper Resources” option (under the “Help” tab just above your Username, bottom choice on the drop-down) and add each other. I have done this with my parents and some of my siblings. This gives me the ability to sign in as myself, click on the Helper Resources, then find my sister’s tree under my ‘Added’ options, and then be signed in as a helper on her tree, viewing what she sees. We can both be looking at the same page while in two different States (or even Countries) and understand what the other sibling is asking about because I can see her tree as she sees it. I also get to see the extra pictures my parents or siblings have in their Memories Galleries that I might not have in my own.
I also use this option to help Ward members and even some non-members with their trees. I explain how this option gives me access to view their tree for 1 year, that they can revoke their permission earlier than that if they want to, and that any changes I might make on their tree; add sources, undo an accidental merge, etc... will actually show as them having done the change.
I hope I explained that clearly enough and that it is the kind of option you are looking for.
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You may be able to use familysearch to find living relatives by looking at who contributes various sources or makes various changes. They can be messaged through family search. This is a great way to collaborate.
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