Living Will for wikitree members

Question

What happens to the profiles I manage on my death.?  Particularly the possibly living people?

Answer 1

Hi Sir William, you can leave an Advance DIrective on your profile. See: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Advance_Directive

Comments

Done.

Answer 2

Sir William , I think this is an excellent question.

Answer 3

I had a recent example where the profile manager had passed away.

Here is Paul's response:-

"As the profiles you requested access to should have been private, I am obliged to delete them on the death of the profile manager. You are free to re-create them from your own research. In due course the remaining Open and Public profiles managed by this manager will be orphaned and his account closed. Private profiles will be deleted."

Comments

Surely it must be possible to leave instructions for a list of WIkiTree members to be ""left" all the profiles regardless Of whether the profiles are open (white), private (red) or whatever shade in between?

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The reply I received from Paul would seem to preclude that as an option, as the profile I was trying to access was a cousins.

It would seem that the best option is as Dale has suggested and add your Wikitree members of choice as managers to any private files you wish to have retained.

Answer 4

I have been recruiting other family members to become involved on here and adding them as managers to as many profiles as I can with the understanding that I will do most of the work on them for as long as possible, they can contribute if they wish, so that when the time comes that I am no longer able to contribute there could be someone to keep the profiles on here. With any luck some of them will be bitten by the Genealogy bug and become more active, but at least my contributions will not be lost.

Comments

Just an FYI, my daughter has been a family member for over a year and just recently started to work on some profiles, so I think my "solution" is working.

Answer 5

This is a little off point, but I encourage all FamilyTreeDNA.com members and test participants to go into their FamilyTreeDNA account and set a beneficiary for their DNA test information in the event that you can no longer manage the account.

 If you do not have a family member to name as the beneficiary, please make the beneficiary the administrator for your favorite FTDNA surname or geographical project.  

Without this beneficiary information, your DNA test information will be lost to the future generations.

Comments

Thanks very much, Kitty. Yes this current interest does not necessarily grow into interest through or for one's kids. Are your sure that your DNA test information will be "lost to future" gens? I'd think that ftdna would establish a section for test results of the deceased. Maybe it would be categorized (such as German Roots is here). If anyone has further ideas, let's pool them and make a suggestion. The originator and current head of the site is a genealogist; his workers are geneticists. They're open to new thoughts.