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Using the FamilySearch Family Tree: A Reference Guide (18 October 2013)

Contents

Copyright and Trademarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?

Chapter 1: Getting to Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 2: Seeing Ancestors on a Pedigree Chart or Fan Chart. . . . . . . . 11 A Person's Summary Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 A Person's Details Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Navigating the Pedigree View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Displaying More Generations of Ancestors on the Pedigree View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Displaying a Person's Children and Descendants on the Pedigree View. . . . . . . . . . . 17 Closing Generations on the Pedigree View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Moving the Pedigree View Horizontally and Vertically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Moving a Person to the Main Position of the Fan Chart or Pedigree View. . . . . . . . . 19 Displaying Correct Spouses and Parents on the Pedigree View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Resizing the Pedigree View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Navigating the Fan Chart View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Returning to a Previously Viewed Person. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Chapter 3: Seeing Details about People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Viewing an Ancestor's Photos and Stories in Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Viewing a Person's Family Members on the Details Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Viewing a Couple's Relationship Information, Including Marriage and Divorce

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Viewing Child-Parent Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Viewing Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Seeing Contributor Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Seeing Information about Living Relatives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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How Family Tree Displays Living People. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Rules Used to Determine If a Person May Still Be Living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Chapter 4: Adding and Correcting Information about People and Relationships. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Why Others Can Change Your Information and How to Prevent Improper Changes. . . . . . 40 Reason Statements for Adding, Editing, and Deleting Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Restricted Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Building Your Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Starting with a Blank Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Adding a New Person to Your Existing Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Finding a Person Who Is Already in the Tree and Linking Him or Her into Your

Family Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Entering Standardized Dates and Places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Entering Characters from the World's Languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Searching for Records from a Person's Details Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Correcting, Adding to, and Deleting Information about People Who Are Already in Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Correcting Information about a Person. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Changing a Person's Living or Deceased Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Adding More Information about a Person Who Is Already in Family Tree. . . . . . . . . 52 Adding a Custom Event or Fact to a Person. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Types of Information That You Can Add about a Person. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Deleting Information about a Person. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Correcting, Adding to, and Deleting Relationship Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Relationships. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Adding, Editing, and Deleting a Couple's Marriage Information, Including

Divorce Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Adding, Changing, and Deleting Relationship Types between Parents and

Children. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Removing a Person from a Family (Deleting Relationships). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Replacing a Wrong Parent in a Family with the Correct One. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Adding Reason Statements to People and Relationships. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Deleting a Person from the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Restoring a Deleted Person. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Seeing the Change History and Undoing Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Seeing and Undoing the Changes Made to a Person or Relationship. . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Filtering a Person's Change History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Correcting Information Moved from new. to Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

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Recommendations for Correcting Names Moved from new.. . . . . . 76 Recommendations for Correcting Events and Other Information Moved from

new.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Recommendations for Correcting Relationships Moved from

new.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Uploading GEDCOM Files and Copying the Information to Family Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Part 1. Upload Your GEDCOM File, and Compare It to Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Part 2. View the Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Part 3. Review People Who Are Potential Matches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Part 4. Review People Who Can Be Added to Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Part 5. Review People Who Are Already in Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Transferring Information between Family Tree and a Personal Genealogical Database. . . . . 88

Chapter 5: Adding Photos and Stories to Your Ancestors in Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Guidelines for Using Photos and Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Using Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Adding a Photo Using Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Changing a Preferred Portrait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Attaching an Uploaded Photo to a Person in Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Tagging a Photo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Resizing and Repositioning Tags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Removing Tags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Deleting a Photo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Identifying the Contributor of a Photo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Adding Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Adding a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Attaching a Previously Written Story to a Person in Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Tagging a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Editing a Story and Its Photo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Removing a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Deleting a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Adding Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Using Social Media or Email to Share A Specific Photo or Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Reporting Questionable Material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Chapter 6: Finding Deceased People in Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 How the Exact Check Boxes Affect Search Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

How the Exact Check Box Affects Finding Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

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How the Exact Check Box Affects Finding Dates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 How the Exact Check Box Affects Finding Places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Chapter 7: Printing Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Using Certified Third-Party Computer Programs to Print Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Chapter 8: Attaching Sources to People and Relationships. . . . . . . . . . . 113 Adding Sources to Your Source Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Your Source Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Typing a New Source into Your Source Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 What to Enter in Source Fields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Copying a Source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Adding a Record from to Your Source Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Adding a Source That Is Already Created into Your Source Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Adding, Changing, and Removing Tags from Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Correcting and Improving Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Editing Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Detaching Sources from People and Relationships. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Seeing and Undoing the Changes Made to a Source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Managing Your Source Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Using Folders to Organize Your Source Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Renaming Folders in Your Source Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Deleting Unneeded Folders from Your Source Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Removing Sources from Your Source Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Deleting Sources from Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Seeing a List of the People a Source Is Attached To. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Reporting Abuse in Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Why Sources Are Valuable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Sources in Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Source Icons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Chapter 9: Merging Duplicate Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Resolving Common Merge Situations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Records That Cannot Be Merged. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Undoing a Merge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Restoring a Record That Was Deleted after a Merge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Indicating Two Records Are Not a Match. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Removing a Record from the Not a Match List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Fixing Incorrectly Combined Records from new.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

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Chapter 10: Working with Other Users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Appropriate Use of Contact Information and Discussions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Seeing Contributor Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Participating in Discussions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Editing Your Discussions and Comments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Deleting Your Discussions and Comments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 What Causes Discussions to Disappear. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Reporting Inappropriate Discussions and Comments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Watching and "Unwatching" Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Watching and "Unwatching" Records about People in Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Watching and "Unwatching" Sources in Family Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Using Your Watch List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

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