Issue 20.15
Here are some more tips and to help you get the most out of FamilySearch Family Tree. https://familysearch.org/tree/ takes you directly to FamilySearch.org’s Family Tree. There is a little purple light bulb at the bottom right of some of the screens. Click the light bulb to see Tree Tips. There will be more of the tree tips added to FamilySearch in the coming weeks.
Add names of living children to the parents; do not add the parents one at a time to children. This will help avoid duplicates. You cannot search for living people in Family Tree, even if you have the ID Number, unless you added them.
If you have an obviously duplicate spouse which does not have a name, you will need to add a name first to get them to merge. If there is nothing else linked to them, you can delete the person, merging is better though. If Possible Duplicates doesn’t find a match that you want to merge, triple click the ID Number, right click your mouse and click copy. Then you can merge by ID Number.
Dates will often show with a yellow background in the edit area if they are not recognized by the system. This is a clue they are not standardized. If the children in a family are not appearing in birth order, make sure all of the children have standardized dates and they will appear in the correct order of birth.
Documents have names and usually photos have faces. In Memories, pictures go in Photos and documents go under Documents. A grave marker is more of a document than a photo.
You can search by any ID Number in the Go To Box under PERSON, just below the FamilySearch logo. This will quickly get you to that person. The person does not need to be in the list.
The watch list is a great place to save people you need to work on in the future. Click LISTS to view your watch list. To stop watching a deleted person, you must first go to the watch list.
For more information, contact Shanna Jones shannasjones@msn.com