How to add my in-laws in MyBloodlines?

The short version: adding your in-laws isn’t your job — it’s your spouse’s. Not to be unhelpful about it, but because of how the graph is structured. Your in-laws sit outside your permission boundary, and that’s not an obstacle to work around so much as a description of whose side of the family they belong to.

Why you can’t add them directly

Your permission boundary covers everyone you share a common ancestor with, plus the other-side parents of those people. Your spouse is inside it — he or she is the other-side parent of your shared child. But the boundary stops there; it doesn’t continue up into your spouse’s parents. You share no common ancestor with your in-laws, and they aren’t an other-side parent of anyone you do, so they fall outside your boundary. Since you can only record within your boundary, you can’t add them yourself.

That isn’t a missing feature. It’s the same rule that keeps every other person from being able to reach into your side.

Who can add them: your spouse

Your in-laws are squarely inside your spouse’s boundary — they’re his or her parents. So the way in-laws get into MyBloodlines is straightforward:

Your spouse claims a profile. This ties his or her access to a real place in the graph. If your spouse’s family hasn’t started recording yet, he or she creates a profile and becomes the first person recorded on that side. See how to claim your profile and start recording.
Your spouse expands that side of the graph. From his or her own profile, your spouse adds his or her parents (your in-laws), grandparents, siblings, and anyone else on that side, along with their stories and photos. This is ordinary recording, done by the person whose boundary those people belong to.

How you get to see them

Once your spouse has recorded that side, you can see it by asking him or her to grant you view access — read-only visibility into that boundary. Your spouse grants it deliberately, it’s one-directional, and it lets you browse and search that side without being able to edit it. The full walkthrough is in how can I see my spouse’s bloodline history in MyBloodlines?.

So the complete picture is: your spouse records his or her family because they’re in that boundary; you see them because your spouse grants you view access. You never add your in-laws yourself, and you never need to — the structure hands that part to the person it actually belongs to.

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