INTRODUCTION

TO

FAMILY TREE

mckinstrymj@gmail.com

Margo McKinstry

AGENDA

• What to do first?

• Create a Family Tree

• Create a “Person Page”

• Finding Duplicate Records

• 4 Views of Family Tree

• Get Help

WHAT TO DO FIRST?

Create an Account

Create an Account

Create an Account

ENTER:

Name

Username

Password

Email address

Confirm

or

Mobile Number

Create an Account – cont’d

Contact Name

Gender

Country

LDS? Y or N

Birth Date

Click

REMEMBER

YOUR

USERNAME

&

PASSWORD!!

Edit the Account - Settings

Editing an Account

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Vital for

Collaboration

Efforts

CREATE A FAMILY TREE

Building your family records

Create a Family Tree

Add Spouse – Enter Information

Mary Brown

Add Spouse – Find a Match or Add

Add More Family Names

Build the Pedigree

Living records stay private

Access

Person’s Page

Select a Person

Summary

Card

Summary Card for Individual

CREATE A ‘PERSON’ PAGE

Adding Vital Information

Person’s Page - Details

More details

below

Person’s Page – Family Members

Can access

other family

from this page

Person’s Page – Editing Details

Person’s Page – Editing Details

Editing Details - Standardize

Person’s Page – Other Helps

Person’s Page – Other Helps (cont’d)

Person’s Page – Marriage Record

Person’s Page – Edit Marriage

Couples Page – Edit Events

Events:

• Marriage

• Divorce

• Common Law

• Annulment

FINDING DUPLICATE RECORDS

Merging for accuracy

Possible Duplicates

Person’s Page

for

William Parker

Possible Duplicates Results

Family

Record

Merging Two Records

Family

Record Record

to Review

Merging Two Records (cont’d)

Reason This Merge is Correct

Duplicate individual.

REMINDER!!

Review other family members

for possible duplicates.

Thoughts on Merging Duplicates

• Can see there are duplicates but don’t

display when requested – Merge by I.D. number

• Family Tree will not allow a merge of

duplicates – Get Help > Send a message

• Can only merge if records are switched – Switch the records and merge

FOUR VIEWS OF FAMILY TREE

Landscape, Portrait, Fan, Descendancy

4 Views of Family Tree - Landscape

1 2 3 4

4 Views of Family Tree - Portrait

4 Views of Family Tree – Fan Chart

Click on Person

to see their

Summary Card

4 Views of Family Tree – Descendancy

GET HELP

Choices to Improve Research

Get Help – Learning Center

Learning Center – Family Tree & More!

Search

By

Location

Family

Tree

Training

More Help – Search > Wiki

Wiki – ‘Family Tree’

Family Tree

Wiki – Family Tree Training Courses

Get Help – ‘Call Us’ or ‘Send Message’

Help at L.A. FamilySearch Library

REMEMBER

Practice

Makes

Perfect!!