All participants in a family group can both see and edit all information in the Family Group Tree.
All group members can select their own starting person for use when displaying the Family Group Tree. All group members can see and edit the information. This allows other family members, for example, to share photos and memories about you with you.
We encourage families to work together on Family Group Trees. Please do not put anything harmful or embarrassing onto someone else's record, and make sure you have permission to share the information you add to your Family Group Tree.
Living people
All participants in a family group can both see and edit all information in the Family Group Tree.
There is no way for a user to lock their record in the Family Group Tree to prevent other group members from changing it.
Deceased ancestors
All group participants can see and edit the deceased ancestors who are connected to the living people in the Family Group Tree.
The main difference between living and deceased people in a Family Group Tree is that the deceased ancestors are in the public tree, where all FamilySearch users can see and edit the information.
There is no way to move a deceased ancestor from the public tree so that only a family group can see or edit it.
Confidential people
If you have confidential people in your private list, you can copy them into a Family Group Tree and share access to the information with group participants. This is the only case where deceased ancestors are visible only to group participants.