Check Out the Free App “Famicity”- a Private Social Network and FamilySearch Partner
There is a new app in town and it might be just what you and your family are looking for! FamilySearch announced France-based Famicity.com as its newest partner in September of 2017. Famicity is a free and fun social media app (IOS and Android) and website that offers all of your family members a private social network based on a family tree. Each will have the opportunity to collaboratively tell and preserve their family story and capture the stories of children as family life happens and evolves. 
New users just need to go to Famicity.com to get started. For help with your FamilySearch Family Tree, check out the easy to follow step-by-step instructions on The Family History Guide found here.
This FamilySearch blog post provides details on exactly how this app works, and how to get started.
“Famicity is an intuitive, app-based tool. It is simple to use, and encourages more communication between family members. Stories, photos, and videos are easily added and conveniently time stamped. It also allows users to give other family members permission to add to a story…Famicity is private and allows invited family members to focus on sharing and preserving family-focused content. Created from the beginning as a social media platform, “Famicity understands the needs of FamilySearch.org users and that’s why we’ve reinvented social media for each and every member of a family to bond, grow, and celebrate their lives privately and securely,” said Famicity co-founder Guillaume Languereau. “Famicity members can already create their family tree 
on their own. This partnership makes it even easier for FamilySearch members to sign up with their account and automatically upload their family tree into Famicity to start an online family reunion in private.”
Read more about it and give it a try!
Note: for current FamilySearch users, Famicity can read and will automatically upload relevant data from your FamilySearch Family Tree. Plans are underway for a future Famicity release that will allow users to sync information between a user’s Famicity and FamilySearch Accounts.
To get started, users need to create a free account at Famicity.com. For FamilySearch accountholders, there will be instructions how to upload their FamilySearch information to their new Famicity account when you register.
Enjoy!
A few helpful sites:
Famicity: A Private Network For Your Family by Lisa Louise Cooke
Angelle, this looks pretty interesting. It looks like it will solve the problem of that issue of privacy for living people that Family Search is reluctant to release for family circles. I’m going to check it out as our family has been wanting to find something like this Famicity App for awhile now. Thanks for sharing!