FAMILYSEARCH FAMILY TREE:
THE FUTURE OF NEW FAMILYSEARCH
©Copyright 2013 by Donald R. Snow
Sections of the Class Notes
- Welcome and Introduction
- Training and Helps for FamilySearch Family Tree (FS FT)
- LDS and FamilySearch Accounts
- FamilySearch Family Tree
- Working in Both FS FT and nFS
- Editing Data
- Sources and Using My Source Box
- Temple Names Submission
- Conclusions
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WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
- Instructor is Donald R. Snow ( snowd@math.byu.edu
) of Provo and St. George, Utah. These notes are
posted online at http://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html
. Tip: holding down the Control Key while clicking
on a link in these notes opens the link in a new tab so
you don't lose your place where you were.
- Classes coming up
- Sat 2013-01-19 10 am-noon -- FamilySearch
Family Tree: The Future of New
FamilySearch -- Q&A -- St. George
East Stake Center Relief Society Room
- Wed
2013-02-06 1-2:30 PM -- Letter
Collections in Family History
Using Erastus Snow's Family
Letters As An Example -- Link
to Personal
Letters of the Erastus Snow Family
-- at FH Update Class, St. George
- Wed
2013-02-20 1-2:30 PM --
Sources: Documentation From
Start to Finish -- at FH Update
Class, St. George
- Fri 2013-02-22 7:20 PM -- Evernote,
PhraseExpress, and ResophNotes: Freeware Note
Programs to Help With Your Family History
-- at Family
History Expo - St. George, Utah
- Sat 2013-02-23 11:20 am
-- Letter
Collections in Family History Using
Erastus Snow's Family Letters As An
Example -- Link to Personal
Letters of the Erastus Snow Family
-- Link to Personal
Letters of the Erastus Snow Family
-- Presentation at Family
History Expo - St. George, Utah
- Thu 2012-03-21 1:45-2:45 PM -- Organizing
and Presenting Your Photos: Picasa
and Other Freeware -- at RootsTech
2013, Salt Palace, Salt Lake
City, Utah
- Today's
class is on "FamilySearch Family Tree" (FS
FT), the new program the LDS Church is
developing to show our genealogical and
temple data. It replaces "new
FamilySearch" (nFS) which will be made
Read-Only in a few months and removed
completely when FS FT has all the features
needed and bugs fixed.
TRAINING AND HELPS FOR FAMILYSEARCH FAMILY
TREE (FS FT)
- 1-hour video about plans for FS FT by Ron
Tanner, Project Manager, at RootsTech Feb
2012, Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah -- Now
archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20120920013056/http://www.rootstech.org/
(left column near bottom)
- Good videos and lessons at --
https://familysearch.org/tree-training
-- Sign in with an LDS or FamilySearch Account
(see below) to see all of them; includes
Online Courses (short videos introducing FS
FT), How-To Videos, Guides and Manuals,
Handouts on Advanced Topics, and Webinar
Classes. You can read and download a
pdf FSFT Users Guide, FSFT Reference
Guide, FSFT Quickstart Guide, a Moving
Info from nFS to FSFT article, and
more.
- FamilySearch is also posting FS
FT training videos on YouTube
-- good 12-minute video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WyKsJzaNBE
.
- George W. Scott's FS FT Manual -- http://usingfamilysearch.com/documents/FamilyTree.pdf
LDS AND FAMILYSEARCH ACCOUNTS
- FamilySearch Document ID 111396
describes the sign up
procedure for an LDS Account (for LDS members)
and a FamilySearch Account (for non-LDS) -- https://help.familysearch.org/publishing/519/111396_f.SAL_Public.html
-- To get an LDS account you need your LDS
membership number which is on your temple
recommend and on your Individual Ordinance
Summary from the Ward Clerk. It also
helps to have an email address.
- You can get to the Create Account website
from https://familysearch.org/
by clicking on the Create Account box or else
the Sign In box (upper right-hand corner) or
click
Here
- Your LDS Account gets you into other Church
websites including FamilySearch
Indexing , ward and stake websites at http://www.lds.org
, and https://new.familysearch.org/
.
- With your LDS account you can generate a
helpful 9-Generation Pedigree Fan Chart of the
genealogy data the Church has for you -- go
to http://www.createfan.com/
and follow the directions; the chart helps you
see where there are "holes" in your genealogy
data that the Church has; the chart can be
downloaded and even printed, if you want. You
can generate fan charts for anyone in FS by
going to http://www.treeseek.com
, signing in with your LDS Account, and using
the person's PID (Personal Identifier Number
from FS FT)
- It helps to keep
a local copy of your information
with the correct, verified data
and sources, so you always know
what is correct, even if the
online information gets
changed. If
you don't already have an electronic genealogy
database at home, there are ways to download
several generations of your FamilySearch data
without having to type it all in yourself.
- To see your genealogy data in
the new FS FT format go to https://www.familysearch.org
, sign in with your LDS or
FamilySearch account (upper right hand
corner), and click on the "Family
Tree" button which now appears next to
the FS logo; the FS FT format is "bow
tie" with descendants to the
left and ancestors to the
right.
FAMILYSEARCH FAMILY TREE
- Purpose of FS FT -- Get the data correct,
have collaboration among us, do the temple
work, and prevent duplication of research and
temple work
- Navigation in FS FT
- Move your pedigree in FS FT by just
clicking and dragging it around the screen
- Change the size of the pedigree on the
screen by holding down the Ctrl key and
rolling the mouse wheel or by clicking on
the plus or minus signs "+ or -" (upper left
hand corner)
- Show additional generations up or down on
any line by clicking the "Expand Tree"
arrows
- See basic information about a person by
clicking on his or her name to open their
"card"
- See all the information about a person by
clicking "View Person"on their card
- Can include links to photos and images in FS
FT and will be able to include them right in
FS FT eventually; beta test is presently
underway for adding images and stories; at
present you can post your photos and stories
elsewhere and link them in FS FT -- see
paragraph on Sources below
WORKING IN BOTH FS FT AND NFS
- Changes made in FS FT will show in nFS if
that operation was permissible in the
older database; for example, if you delete data
you didn't submit in FS FT, it will NOT be
deleted in nFS since you can't delete data you
didn't submit there; also some operations are
not permissible in FS FT since they couldn't be
done in nFS, e.g. combining some entries
- Can keep two windows open, one showing your
data in FS FT and one in nFS, so you can see and
work in both views
- nFS will be Read-Only as soon as possible
since it is causing many problems with FS FT.
EDITING DATA
- Easier to edit in FS
FT and you can edit things you
didn't submit yourself
- But only
make changes in FS FT that you have
documentation (sources, proof) for in your
home database, so it will be "worthy of all
acceptation" (D&D 128:24)
- In the View Person from the "card" there is a
box with the list of changes -- can restore
anything from past, if needed
- Click "Watch" on a person's card to receive
email notifications
of changes made to a person,
except for temple work completed
- Can correct relationships in FS FT --
husband-wife and parent-child
- Solving problems of wrong combining in nFS --
see Knowledge
Document 106612 and https://getsatisfaction.com/familysearch/topics/new_improved_message_in_records_of_more_than_one_person
SOURCES AND USING MY SOURCE BOX
- Sources for documentation in FS FT are down
near the bottom of the "View Person" screen from
their card
- The hope is that with good sources cited the
data will stabilize and people won't change it
without good reason.
- Sources can now include links to webpages, e.g. Fold 3 has free
Memorial Pages for individuals where
you can post photos, images, and
data and link them in FS FT -- http://www.fold3.com/
-- Examples: photos
of my mother and father are posted
on Fold3 and linked in FS FT -- see
PID's KWZC-D6V and KWZC-D6F
- To add sources directly to a person click "Add
Source" on individual record and fill out the
form -- the Notes part is so you can include the
information in the source so it will always be
available
- My Source Box is a place
to store sources and links you find that
you might want to use later -- See
information about source boxes at https://familysearch.org/blog/familysearch-featuremy-source-box/
- To add a source via My Source Box, put the
source in My Source Box and then attach it to
the person
- Find a record
- Add it to the Source Box
- Attach it to pertinent individuals
- Tag it to show what data the record
supports for that individual, i.e. name,
gender, birth, christening, death, or burial
- Sources in My Source Box alphabetize by
title, so it may help to name them
"[Surname, Given names] - [Title]"
- Can form folders and subfolders in
MySource Box to organize your sources, e.g.
for locations, surnames, record types,
Sources Completed, Sources Still To Attach,
etc.
- After attaching a source to someone
- Can remove it from My Source Box, if you
want -- this does NOT remove
it from any persons, only from your
Source Box
- Or can move it to a
folder called something like Sources
Completed or Sources Attached
- Can edit sources in My Source Box by
clicking on the source > Copy >
[make changes] > Save -- then
remove the original version
- Can have My Source Box open it in
another browser tab so you can see the
sources you have, but add sources to
the people in the tab with FS FT open
TEMPLE NAMES SUBMISSION
- Helpful video lesson on
which names you can submit for temple work
on the FS FT Training website mentioned
above or directly at --
http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Local_Support/Consultant/Temple_Policy-Name_Submissions/player.htm
- Can now print
and edit your temple names Family
Ordinance Request
(FOR) in
FS FT
CONCLUSIONS
- FS
FT is a major step forward and will be the
only way to see and edit your data "soon"
- May be helpful to correct simple things and find and
entering sources and links for your ancestors until all
the bugs are out of FS FT
- When finished with a work session, be sure to sign
out of SF FT, if you are in a public place like the FH
Library, since others can use your log in
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