How do I stop receiving email notifications for family groups?

Article Id: 14170
May 11, 2022

By default, all group members receive email notifications for family groups.

  • One when when people request to join a group.
  • One when they are approved to join the group.

If you are not a group administrator, you can stop receiving both email notifications.
Group administrators can stop receiving the second: the one sent when a use is approved to join the group. Group administrators will always receive the email notifying them that someone has requested to join the group.

Steps (website)

  1. On FamilySearch.org, click your name.
  2. Select Family Groups.
  3. Click the family group.
  4. Click View Group.
  5. Click .
  6. Click Notification Settings.
  7. Click Email me when someone joins to turn it off.

Steps (mobile app)

  1. In the Family Tree mobile app, open the family groups feature:
    • Apple iOS: Tap More.
    • Android: In the top-left, tap .
  2. Tap Settings.
  3. Tap Subscriptions.
  4. Tap Family Groups to turn it off.

How do I send a message to a family group?
How do I leave a family group?

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