Where to update information on a living person (synchronization of data)
I have a living person in my family search tree, my wife has the same living person and we have the same living person in our group tree.
where do we add new information about this person so all 3 I’d numbers get the same update? Or do we have to add the new information 3 times?
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You need to add the same information to al three profiles if you want the information on all three.
The other option is to say the profile in the group is the profile for the person and not worry about keeping the other two synchronized with it.
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@Gordon Collett is correct, it is currently not available to synchronize data across different trees. The product team is investigating the possibilities of being able to do so, however. So it may become available in a future update.
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thank you both for your responses. As a retired engineer and programmer I would suggest that instead of trying to sync 3 different ID’s that these be merged so that only one remains that can be seen in all three trees.
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The trouble, as usual, are privacy concerns. Living people in different private spaces cannot be merged according to current FamilySearch policy which has to follow the privacy laws of every country it can be accessed in.
Then there is the issue of what happens if I get kicked out of group I am in. If I don't have my own copy of a living profile, I've lost it all together.
Both of these issues are not insurmountable, of course. It took them about eight years to develop the current Family Groups, at least that is about how long they have been promising it was coming, so who knows what we will be able to do in another eight years.
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The product team is looking at ways profiles could be compared information imported/exported from profiles in one tree into a different tree. We would be interested in hearing your thoughts on how this type of 'synchronizing' could work. Obviously, a single profile shared across multiple groups is not a possibility, because it would show evidence of work by people who are not in the particular group that you are in. Also, who or what group would 'own' that profile? If you could show a mock up of how it might look to compare across different trees in order to copy & paste information from a profile in one tree into a profile in a different tree. Or if you have thoughts on how that copy & paste could work, please add them here.
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The prompt for a mock up makes me think of the merge screens, with the "surviving person" title changed to identify the FGT they are in, and arrows could go either way.
Because you are concerned about audit trail of addition by non-members of the FG, the person requesting the copy of the data would be the author of that data in any target FGT.
It could go further in allowing the creation of hierarchy of entities. I may chose to have one profile be the primary profile for all my edits, and I want to propagate it to any other tree. I would then want to set an option for an "automatic sync" type, including "all" which overwrites all conflicting data in the target, "new" which only adds new information but leaves conflicts in place, and "manual" which means I have to select what goes where.
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Here's a weird thought: What if we turned this idea on its head, and instead of syncing entire profiles, we sync bits of information that are attached to profiles?
It's a little difficult to describe, so here's a quick and dirty mockup:
EDIT: Obviously, only profiles which are already visible to you would appear in the sync page. It would be up to individuals to sync their private profiles.
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