Issue 22.12
If you go to www.familysearch.org you will see Trees, those trees include the millions of lineage linked genealogies that came from Ancestral File, the Pedigree Resource File and other patron submissions. Soon, not to confuse you, but FamilySearch will add Family Tree to FamilySearch.org, which is a replacement for new.familysearch.org. This has not been fully implemented yet but I am beta testing it and it is coming, plus in writing this article I realized it will take me weeks to explain it!
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Family Tree will have an update to the basic parent/child relationship that is in new FamilySearch. New FamilySearch only recorded a relationship between a child and a father and separately the same child with the mother. This led to some inaccurate presentations of data should there be no relationship between the father and the mother. Family Tree has a new parent/child relationship model where you describe in a single relationship conclusion the father, mother and the child. You also have the ability to describe relationship types between the father and child and mother and child. So you could have a foster, then guardian, then adopted relationship.
These changes and concepts have been very challenging for the developers of the system. Keep in mind, it is available in numerous languages and you can add names in Chinese and have them readable in English or Portuguese and vice versa. The intent is to develop a system that allows collaboration and a collective of the most accurate genealogical information, and it is available worldwide. Why would we want to add our family’s information and spent time working on correcting this Family Tree? We will be preserving this information into a system with all of its conclusions for future generations. Hopefully we can help FamilySearch and others focus on continuing the research into undiscovered ancestors.
Family Tree is intended to be available to all users who would like to participate. FamilySearch would like us to learn to pull together, sift through, and help curate the data towards accuracy. New FamilySearch will be going away as FamilySearch completes the transition to Family Tree. If you are a user of new.familysearch.org and do not yet have access to the Family Tree or if you are new to both systems and would like access, please contact FamilySearch Support at 1-866-406-1830.
For more information, contact Shanna Jones shannasjones@msn.com or (435) 628-4900.
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