To give someone access to your family:

1. Click Manage Access on any family card below.
2. Enter their email address and choose a role.
3. They sign in with Google using that same email and will see your family automatically.

Everyone with access sees exactly the same family data.

A family is a named group — usually a last name like "Smith". Create the family first, then add members to it.

You can belong to multiple families (e.g. if you married into another family or manage two family groups).

Everyone you grant access to will see all members of that family across Search, the Tree, and the Calendar.

If your Google account's email matches a person already recorded in the tree (by blood or marriage), you're automatically given Editor access to that family — even without being explicitly invited. Owners can still set someone to Viewer to override this.