How To Share Family Tree On Ancestry

Having the proper information about the sharing the family tree is quite difficult. Because sometimes, you need to invite the people or even share the tree with other people also. For that you need to create the free guest account. Well, below, I am sharing the proper guidance for the invitation of the people.

How to Share Family Tree on Ancestry

• First of all, click on the “tree” tab and then select the tree from the page of the Ancestry.
• Now you will on the top right corner of the tree. There is the option of the “share”. You have to click on that option.
• If you want to share your tree with the help of the email. Then click on the “Email” or “Username”. For that you need to enter the email address of the recipient or even you can also enter the user name also.
• The other way to share the tree is to get a link that you can share. For that you have to click on the “shareable link”. For that you need to create a new link for every person to share your tree.
• Well, if you choose the option of the sending through the email then please enter the correct email address and you have to skip the option of sending through the link.
• At one time, you can invite multiple people by just clicking on the green add “another email/uses” button.
• From the role menu, you have to choose the role which you want the person to have. As basically there are three roles-

1. Guest-Here in the guest, it can view and add comments to a family tree. The guest cannot view the living people easily.
2. Contributor- Here in the contributors, it can view and even add the comments, photos, and stories to a tree. The contributors cannot view the living people and cannot remove the content.
3. Editor- Here in the editor option, it can easily view and even add the people, records, comments, photos, and stories to the tree of the family. The editors can easily view the living people easily.

• If you are doing the invitation through the email then click send invites. Otherwise, if you are sending through the link then click copy link. Even you have the third option of sending through the email. In this option the recipient will get the email with “You’ve been invited to see the family tree.”
• In the end, if they accept the invitation, then definitely you tree will appear under the tab of the tree which is shown in your account. Make sure that your account should be signed with the proper email address.

Proper Procedure To Accept The Tree Invitation

• If you are invited then definitely you will received the invitation through the email. You will see the link in the email. You have to click on that link.
• In the account of the ancestry, you have to “sign in” if you already have the account. Then you will be taken to the tree. But yet, you have not create the account on the ancestry then it is totally free.
• Now you can easily view the tree when you accept the invitation. Even the tree will pop up under the “trees” tab once you signed to the account.

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• On the top-left corner, you will see the option of the “tree name”. Click the tree name and then select the “tree settings”.
• Now from the page of the tree setting, click the “sharing tab” option that is given on the page.
• If you want to change the role of someone, then click on the “Role” menu. After that select or deselect the box of the “Can see living people” to prevent someone from viewing the people that are living in the tree.
• Well, just to end the access to your tree then click “remove” and then click on the “save changes” options.

Simple Steps To Remove a Tree Which Shared With You

• You have to first open the page of the ancestry and need to click on the tree tab which is given on the tree.
• From that, you have to select the “create and manage trees” from the ancestry.
• Here the list of the tress appears on your screen. From that click the “Tree Shared with me”.
• Now, you will see in the tool column, click on the “remove from list” which is given on the beside of the tree that you want to remove.
• In the final step, click “Ok” option.

Issues Faced By People While Share Family Tree On Ancestry

Not receiving the invitation if someone sent to you is common which is faced by the people of the ancestry. So, if you do not get the invitation then contact us. We will see that ancestry may block you from sending the email to your email address. Make sure that your email address which have given should be correct.

When you send the invitation and it is not received is the major concern. For that you have to click on the tree name which is given in the corner and then select tree settings. Now click on the sharing tab. Make sure that the email address or the name of the user that you have entered should be correct. So now click on the re-invite option in the tools column. In this way, you can again invite the people.

When you try to merge the tree but you are facing the error. So, it is not possible to merge the tree automatically. You just need to get the knowledge about how you can merge the tree automatically.

The Final Verdict

However, in this article, we tried to cover up the basic knowledge about the sharing the family tree. Now you can easily invite the people. Just all, I need from you to share this post with the people who are searching about this. Do not hesitate to leave comment as we will address your query as soon as we can.