Lets take an example. Say you have a John Smith in your family tree. His email is johnsmith@nomail.com. When you send an invitation to John, if his email does not exist in our members database, a new entry is created and an invitation is sent out. Now when John gets his invitation he creates his own password and manages his account. He can change his name to Johnathan Smith, but he will still be John Smith in your family tree. If you create another family tree and have the name Johnny Smith and send an invitation to johnsmith@nomail.com, it will address him as Johnathan Smith. The name on your family tree is irrelevant when sending an invitation to an existing member.
Hope this helps.
Does this mean that if I send an invitation to someone and he/she changes their name unknown to me, and puts in their own password, that I cannot delete them from being a member of my site ???.
Please answer this. It is important because some members, for whatever reason, may wish to stop a person having full access to their tree. Do we have to use the exact name in your members site to cancel a membership to a tree.
Would you tell us in this forum how we can be certain that we have completely canceled a persons membership to our site so that they don't have access to restricted data.
This has come up on other occasions over the years and I don't think I have ever seen a satisfactory answer.