Is there a way to set a legacy person, if a member passes away?

Question

As I am entering the later years in life, I would like to make sure that any genealogy work I’ve done online can be taken care of by someone else. Is there a way to do that here on WikiTree?

Comments

Hi Pamela. See

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Advance_Directive

Answer 1

Hi, Jim. I was interested in your reply to Pam. I read the article you shared but now, here's my doubt. With the idea of independent profiles managed by an account and then attached to THE TREE,  each of those profiles being "leaves" of THE TREE should be reasigned to a backup manager. Wouldn't it be easier to just reasign to the backup the "root profile" each user is managing? I'll explain my self with an example: I have  a big branch of the tree, consisting of 63 profiles. If I am not available to manage these profiles, someone has to reasign each of the 63 profiles to a backup manager. I am saying that it could be easier to reasign just the root profile with which I started to construct my branch.

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Hi Mario. I'm not sure how this would work. The manager still needs to be changed on each profile. How would the other profiles be identified from the "root profile"? Anyhow, sadly the WikiTree Team need to make these transfers quite often: they probably have efficient procedures for doing so.

Answer 2

This is just one of the reasons why connecting to a One Name Study is so important. If your immediate family or descendants are not interested in maintaining your genealogy work, someone from a ''One Name Study'' with your same surname may be.

Answer 3

Perhaps searching for profiles of the various last names that would be included in someones ancestors in the places where the ancestors of the deceased or retired profile managers lived would be a benefit.

Orphaned profiles could then be adopted by people interested in the same names in a particular location.

I know that several years ago many of my husband's ancestors were then managed by a long inactive PM.

Many of the profiles had not been improved for several years and were not open when they should have been.

I filed a Non-responsive Manager report and shortly after all that person's profiles were orphaned, allowing me to adopt them and improve the many profiles.

If profiles orphaned by the death of a member are part of another person's family history they can be improved or worked on by that person without being adopted. I have improved many profiles in the history of some family branches some I adopted others I just improved.

I think I have seen posts in G2G asking for people to adopt and or work on particular profiles.

Posts could be made to ask members to adopt profiles in a particular location.

If I understand correctly an Advanced Directive is more concerned with private profiles such as the profiles of living family members of the deceased member.