# Sharing Program **URL:** \ **Category:** RootsMagic\ **Tags:** question, rootsmagic\ **Created:** [November 1, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/sharing-program/14982 "2025-11-01T18:08:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mka1960](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/mka1960/32/1192_2.png) [@mka1960](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/mka1960)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/sharing-program/14982/1 "2025-11-01T18:08:03Z")
Can 2 family members use the same RM program or do we both need our own key ---
**Author:** ![mscheffler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@mscheffler](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/mscheffler)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/sharing-program/14982/2 "2025-11-01T21:24:43Z")
I believe more than one person in the same household can use the same license key. ---
**Author:** ![kbens0n](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/kbens0n/32/80_2.png) [@kbens0n](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/kbens0n)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/sharing-program/14982/3 "2025-11-01T21:26:56Z")
Absent further detail …as long as they live in the same place as your computer lives. ---
**Author:** ![mka1960](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/mka1960/32/1192_2.png) [@mka1960](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/mka1960)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/sharing-program/14982/4 "2025-11-01T21:36:58Z")
Ok, she lives up north and I’m south, I’ll get it for her as a gift ---
**Author:** ![kevync1985](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3be4f8/32.png) [@kevync1985](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/kevync1985)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/sharing-program/14982/5 "2025-11-01T23:50:34Z")
Keep in mind if you are sharing DB and media files over distance you might run into new challenges. ---
**Author:** ![mka1960](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/mka1960/32/1192_2.png) [@mka1960](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/mka1960)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/sharing-program/14982/6 "2025-11-02T04:21:13Z")
I think our own copies and share 1 tree ---
**Author:** ![kevync1985](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3be4f8/32.png) [@kevync1985](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/kevync1985)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/sharing-program/14982/7 "2025-11-02T13:40:02Z")
database and tree are not necessarily same thing. If you mean you have two working copies – do you mean working on the exact same file database ---
**Author:** ![mka1960](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/mka1960/32/1192_2.png) [@mka1960](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/mka1960)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/sharing-program/14982/8 "2025-11-02T17:10:41Z")
One tree at ancestry, 2 databases, updating from ancestry ---
**Author:** ![KimberlyGreen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/kimberlygreen/32/1640_2.png) [@KimberlyGreen](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/KimberlyGreen)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/sharing-program/14982/9 "2025-11-02T17:47:48Z")
Do you plan to do TreeSync bi-directionally (ie. update down from Ancestry _and_ update up to Ancestry)? If yes, you may run into contention due to timing. If you and your other person just happen to push an update up to Ancestry at the same time, Ancestry will have to decide which updates to accept & which to reject. Then your two databases are no longer in sync. ---
**Author:** ![kevync1985](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3be4f8/32.png) [@kevync1985](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/kevync1985)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/sharing-program/14982/10 "2025-11-02T23:19:56Z")
@mka1960 From the sound of it the process you are attempting sounds good _“In theory”_ but likely no so much in practice – unless you use a method such as odd/even parking. One of you only does work Sunday/Tue/Thu/Sat and the other Mon/Wed/Fri – even then with outages I am not sure how successful it will be– you could be lucky and get several years with no issue but it one of those you are more likely than not to over time to run into issue