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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
Relationship
Is there any way that you can make it possible to Copy the relationship on anyone you find that is related . In relationship can you make the font larger so you can read the relation to me up top it would make it easier on the iPhone! Why is it that my famous relatives are only posted for a short period of time?? Will AI be used soon on helping Researching one’s family and relatives with the latest in technology? Why is it you can only add so many researchers contacts to chat to?? When you find relatives records abroad why can’t they be read as you can with records from the States?? Why can you only see up to the 13th Great Grandparents?? What’s involved in taking your family history and genealogy and relatives and pictures and records and published in a hard back book and if you need so many what is the cost per book and do you put the book together as a completed products? Just curious some time in the future I would be interested in having so many published as heirlooms for my family?? Will you be able to colorize and repair old black and white pictures in the near future by familysearch?? Thank you for taking my questions in consideration in order to enhance familysearch asap!! Yours truly, Hugh Fawcett.Show lesslkyspgot
I recommend this to everyone
In short, if you’re looking for an app to make a family tree, this is it. It’s easy to operate (for old and young), completely free, and tends to fill in gaps for you with minimal effort on your part. I recommend it to everyone.
I’m definitely on the younger side of this app’s user base; I first downloaded it when I was fourteen and am about to turn nineteen. Most everyone on this app is people my grandparents’ age, but that’s kind of the appeal of it. I’ve run into distant relatives that I wouldn’t have expected to even know how to operate a computer on this app. It’s nice to have a tiny digital connection with someone you might never meet otherwise.
The way this app operates is incredibly easy if you need it to be and very complicated if you want it to be. In some ways, it’s grown with me. I built my original family tree at fourteen by asking my remaining grandparents for their parents’ names and birthdays. Now, I’m working on solving my great great grandmother’s parentage, one of the few blank spots left after my tree connected with others.
Less importantly, I love the feature that allows you to find out if you’re related to a specific person. It’s weird, but if you ask a friend for a deceased blood relative, you can find out if you’re at all related. My friend and I found out that we were 32nd cousins!Show lessIhatewattpad😡😡😡😡
Wow
So I always thought that did not really have any family . My father was not around , so Recently I was curious if he had passed so I googled his name . His name was not anywhere but another name popped up . My dads brother . He had died one week earlier and I found an obituary with photo. From there an explosion of relatives..Incredible just incredible… According to this site/app I can trace my family to 5 members on the mayflower , and It shows that i have some extremely famous relatives (I won’t brag) lol…. And the very best thing is the photos . There is a pic of my great great great great grandmother and I thought it was a picture of my mother . Incredible ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️My husband and brother think that this is a scam due to the famous relatives pages . I want to print up photos and stories , people ect and have it all together for future generations of my family . One day I’ll be the past and a I’ll be a 17th great grandmother or something.
I love this app and site . Thank u so muchShow lesslove it $$$$
Mrs. Shatarreca
I completed several ordinances at the Atlanta Temple Thursday March 2023. I started with the names I only needed one thing completed on. I then went to the names that needed several Ordinances done. I started with the Baptism and Confirmations, moved on to Initiatories and for all that’s not completed I still need to complete Endowments. I did pass it and completed Sealing to parents and or Spouses. In all I did several Ordinances for my maiden name ancestors. I started with a couple of names I had asked my mom for because she love genealogy and I have completed three that’s now listed. I have several more to come that I found on my own. It had my maiden name listed as well as my old address but they’re just not listed as completed as of yet. I asked my coordinator during my Initiatory should I have my names reprinted because I’d updated my name and address. She told me no, I was happy about that because I didn’t want the Temple to use more paper if they didn’t have to. I’m excited and humbled by doing what I did. I’m extremely grateful and thankful I had the opportunity to do what I did yesterday.Show lessCola127
Very convenient
I love the app. So much easier than in the old days of looking endlessly at microfiche or books at the country Courthouse, or even the first online stuff which was still searching the books only in the convenience of your home.
Now it almost comes to you.(IF it is correct) you are relying on other people doing there work correctly, and many do not. I have found errors. So check out the information. Sometimes there are two families living a few blocks from each other (with the same name or similar names of mother and father- some families had the habit of giving all boys the same first name and different middle names or all got the same middle name. If they married girls with similar names.) that are getting put into one family.
I have also had aunts and uncles of mine being listed as deceased on these records. When in the newspaper obituary they are listed as siblings of someone else that has passed away.Show lessdrbunot taken
I love this app but!
I love this app including the website,I had wrote a review not long ago,sometimes my reviews don’t pop up not sure why,or it just takes long to pop up on any app in Apple Store?
Anyways it’s great for finding relations,I’ve been using other websites to connect the pieces,it might not be 100% I have even used Realtive Finder & it tells me the opposite,there was this Famous Person who said to be my 13th Cousin 1xtimes removed,while on here it saids they’re my 10th Cousin 1xRemoved,I’m wondering if that’s because the first one was made & deleted somehow or it’s a duplicate?
I think they’re more likely to be my 10th Cousin 1xtimes removed on here then,your sister site,RealtiveFinder,I’m not sure & not sure how they got from that to this on the app & website.
Other than that,I’m extremely unhappy that I cannot block someone from my family who is extremely bugging me to much,I want to say maybe because there’s bugs here & maybe on the website to but either way,it’s quite annoying & frustrating,I can’t handle being bugged often & assumed for just not contributing,I have my own problems & they’re not listening to a Word I’ve said so far!Show lessRoses$ForDays
Absolutely Amazing!
I really enjoy this app. It makes it easy and fun to find your ancestors or other family history. I enjoy ancestry in general but I go to ask my family members about things so I knew it was correct. You can collaborate with others on your family tree and even see your relationships to people up to 15 generations back! I do have some little things like I would love too see if I have an ancestor for both my parents. There have been multiple instances where I have seen the same person within the ancestry on either both sides of my great grandparents, grandparents, or parents. While it is distant it would still be cool to see how the common ancestry came about. Other than that I highly recommend this app!Show lessFirebreather25
