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Beginning Family History Step 6-The FamilySearch Person Page Peggy Ash Now that we have a tree and record hints attached we need to take a closer look at what FamilySearch calls the "Person Page". When a new individual is added to the FamilySearch Family Tree they are assigned an identification number and a Person Page is created for them. The Person Page has only as much or as little information as users have entered. Most Person Page's could benefit from a little TLC. TLC comes in the form of verifying, standardizing, correcting, adding, and organizing information. A Person Page can become a work of art when well crafted. Make your 4 generations a valuable masterpiece! This PowerPoint will give you some tips and hints: Beginning Family History Step 6-The FamilySearch Updated Person Page PowerPoint PDF

The miracle of modern technology meets genealogy with the magical world of record hints! Add an individual to a tree in one of the major online genealogy sites like FamilySearch, Ancestry, Find My Past, or My Heritage and within seconds record hints have been generated. The websites use the information from your tree to search their databases to find records that pertain to your individual. Hints are produced for records that the systems have found and with a high degree of confidence believe apply to your individual. Even though the systems are often quite good at bringing us valid hints, each hint still needs to be evaluated and the record analyzed. Even when there seems to be very little information, each piece of information can be a clue that leads us to more information and can be used as evidence to support or contradict what we already know. As new information is identified it needs to be added to the tree. FamilySearch does not automatically correct ...

We have discovered our family in Ancestry but now we want to make sure that the information is in FamilySearch. Before we add any new individuals to the FamilySearch Tree we want to make sure that they are not already in FamilySearch. There are three ways of doing this: 1. Check for Duplicates on the FamilySearch Person Page 2. Use the FamilySearch synch feature in Ancestry 3. Use the FIND feature in FamilySearch When you have checked FamilySearch and most of the individuals being added to the FamilySearch tree are not in FamilySearch or your individuals contain much more information than what may be in FamilySearch, then you have the option of uploading a GEDCOM file to FamilySearch. A GEDCOM file is a Data Communication file specifically designed by the LDS Church to transmit genealogical information. It has become the standard file format in the genealogical community. A GEDCOM can be exported from Ancestry and uploaded to FamilySearch. On FamilySearch, these file...

When the tree hints run dry and you no longer have trees to extend your family tree what do you do? Search for information in records. The best records to identify other family members are census, marriage, birth, and death records. When you initiate a search you want to focus on those records. As you find records you can attach them to your Ancestry tree along with those individuals mentioned in the record. Ancestry is nice because, unlike FamilySearch, you can also add information from the record to the information in your tree or replace information in your tree with better information from the record. This is where things start to get FUN! Beginning Family History Step 3-Find Your 4 Generations When There are No Online Trees PDF

Online trees are a wonderful source for quickly extending your personal pedigree. These trees have been placed online by an individual who did some or a considerable amount of family history work and shared it for public access. The original trees may have then been copied, often many times, by others and then reposted online and shared so there could be many trees on any given family line that are quite similar. FamilySearch has tried to create one combined family tree from all of the trees posted to their website with the hope of eliminating or at least reducing the amount of duplication of effort. Ancestry, on the other hand, has kept their individual trees in the private space of the creator and given the owner the option of sharing their tree/trees. Because sharing is the default, most people share their trees. At last count, Ancestry says it has  100 million family trees . The odds are pretty good someone has started a tree on Ancestry with some of your family membe...