Issue 39.12
Part 2
You may find that a person is missing from Family Tree. If the person is not already in Family Tree, you can enter him or her. Although Family Tree is primarily a tool for recording information about deceased ancestors, you sometimes also need to add living people to Family Tree. If that person is already in Family Tree somewhere, you can link that existing person into your family line rather than having to reenter the information. You only need to type in the information once, if it is found you link it, if not you click add and the information you typed in to search is still there.
You can correct any of the information that is in a person’s Vital Information and Other Information sections.
Family Tree keeps track of all of the changes made to a person in a change history. If someone makes a change that you do not agree with, you can use this list to restore a previous version of the information. You can undo changes made to any person, regardless of whether you entered the information or made the change. If possible, attach a source that shows your information is correct. Every time you make a change, you can enter a detailed reason that explains why you believe the information that you entered is correct.
You can edit a person’s gender if he or she is not linked into a relationship that implies a gender. For example, if the person is linked to another person as a mother, you cannot change the gender to male. In Family Tree, you can add the person’s name, gender, birth and christening information, and death and burial information. You can also enrich the record by adding information such as alternate versions of the person’s name or the person’s occupation, naturalization, military service, titles of nobility, and so forth.
You can add the date and place of a couple’s marriage. You can also indicate that the couple had a common-law marriage, that they divorced, or that the marriage was annulled. If a couple’s marriage information is wrong, you can edit it or delete it. Now we can clean up the marriage dates that were not available for editing in new.familysearch.org.
The “relationship type” specifies how a child and parent are related. By default, the system uses “Biological” as the relationship type. You can change that relationship type to adopted, step, guardianship, or other. You can also add more than one relationship type and delete relationship types. Family Tree tracks all changes made to the information about a person and the relationships that he or she is part of. If someone makes a change that you do not agree with, you can use the change history to restore a previous version of the information.
You can undo changes regardless of whether you originally added the information or made the change. When the change history lists the changes for one type of information, the screen contains a button that identifies the type of information in the change history.
For more information, contact Shanna Jones at shannasjones@msn.com or 435-628-4900.