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Don’t trust the trees
FamilySearch is great for finding sources on your ancestors. Its the best thing about it outside of being free. I encourage you to use it for that purpose when compiling your family tree. Just don’t trust the family trees, which are a mix of fact and fiction. Anyone can edit trees- this includes both people who have the actual correct information as well as those that that don’t- and don’t know the difference. There are also those that have their heart set on being related or descended from someone and will deliberately fudge the tree to make it happen. Go back far enough and you’ll find you’re descended from myths (like King Arthur), people we know were childless (like Jesus Christ), and famous ancient writers like Sophocles and Homer. I had an ancestor who was living in England. Next thing I know their father is from Poland and his brother just happens to be the most famous Jewish Rabbi of Poland. There are parts of my tree that I have done tremendous amounts of research on, using baptismal, marriage, and death records and censuses of the area, making a solid case. Overnight the whole thing is upended by some guy in South America who is operating on hearsay. I don’t use the trees. I don’t trust them, save as suggestions as to where to look. But I use the sources and I compile my tree somewhere else.Show lessKansasCatholic
My quick look
The pedigree page locks up on 5th or 6th generation and won’t go further. Started after last Roots Tech. I’m still reeling from the changes made on so many lines. I’m not writing to say all are wrong, but I’m wasting so much time fixing wrong branches added into my line. Changes should be made only with permission. Thank you. I know this must be so difficult. So sorry. Susan Lazenby
Please thank past & present service workers! It’s so great to suddenly see so many names. I will be sending all I’ve done to the temple and family members because I can’t walk.
I check everyday and it seems miracles are happening on the other side of the veil. I also found new places my ancestors resided. How odd that my grand daughter who’s half Tongan and today I can tell her I have my dark skin and almond eyes are from her remote island in the So. Pacific. With great admiration-please pass this thank you note to all Susan Kay Lazenby (Los Angeles Temple District)Show lesstezra2
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I’ve been using Family Tree for many years, it’s the only system I’ve ever used, wouldn’t use any other. Especially loves the NOTES section where there’s enough room to write a book on someone, that’s appreciated. Now Family Tree is online where I can enter, correct or adjust data on my family. I descended from Stonington and Belfast, Maine. My father passed away at 33 years old, I was only 14 which is where I acquired my interest in my family. At 35, my daughter Jayme Lynn Nickerson was 7 years old when she was struck and died by a man driving his girlfriend’s uninsured pickup truck 39 years ago June 20, 1985 so Family Tree has put them and the rest of my family on the map for “Whom It May Concern” which is what I’ve titled my work after Daphne Aurora Tower, my grandmothers youngest sister who called her work the same, for the generations to come. My father is Lester Arnold Nickerson, my mother is Pauline Lillian FiField which is not her last named as she never really found out who her father was. Thank you Family Tree for BEING THERE.Show lessMom and Don