researching question
I have just started building out my family tree and it has moved quite quickly - accepting already existing people has accelerated things.
How do I find out who created someone that I have added to my tree?
How do I contact the person to collaborate with them?
Thanks
M
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@MartinStewart7 Congratulations on working in FamilySearch Family Tree. To answer your question please refer to the link provided below:
https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-use-familysearch-messages.
Best wishes, FamilySearch
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Great work and thank you for using FamilySearch to trace your ancestors.
One other place to look for other contributors in your tree is in the section on the Person Page of any individual called, Latest Changes. The following link will give you details about what it contains and how to work with it.
Best of luck to you!
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Thank you for the URLs linking to sending messages and where to look for contributors. However, I'm still stuck.
I'll elaborate a little more about my situation and see if you can advise a solution.
When I follow the example from the "Latest changes in Family Tree" page on the family tree member, it shows me as the person who most recently made a change (probably from when I linked his father to my father). If I select See All Changes, it only show me, not the person who originally created the family tree member.... it wasn't me.
I made a note in the collaboration section to hopefully get a response from whoever created it.
what else can I do?
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If you will provide the ID# for the person you've mentioned, we can take a look.
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Thank you. The ID number is G8DB-TDW
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@MartinStewart7 Perhap you will consider beginning with a look at what you have connected your ancestor, Norman Young Stewart, ID# G8DB-TDW, to regarding a direct line of ancestors. To do that you will need to have the person or detail page for him on your screen. Next in the upper right hand corner of the page in the name box is a menu stating View Tree, Follow and View My Relationship. Please click on View Tree.
This action will bring up the View screen which has the Descendancy View, Portrait View, Landscape View, and a Fan Chart View. Click on the Fan Chart View. Make sure that Norman Young Stewart, ID# G8DB-TDW, is in the middle. What is shown is a direct line of ancestors for him. To the right of the Fan Chart is a Generations: selection. Click on 7. Now you will have a complete view of who has been added to your ancestor. Some of them have sources added.
Pick one ancestor, such as Thomas Simpson, ID# MXTH-LDH, he is on the outer edge of his maternal ancestors. Place your mouse over his name and fan chart will be shown. Click on his Fan Chart. Three generations will be shown. Go back using the back arrow and select the Descendancy View. Select 4 Generations. You will now see the individuals that have been added for four generations.
You may search through these indivduals to see who provided the information and the source if there is one. We have seen about three people who have contributed to your family. There are many records that have come from FamilySearch from a previous conversion change and it will take more research to locate those sources.
Good Luck on your adventure locating who your ancestor are and thus who you are.
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I couldn't see anything besides your own contributions to Norman Young Stewart G8DB-TDW, so I went and looked at his brother Charles Stewart G8DP-4QX instead, and it looks like you added a duplicate of him: he was already there as husband of Freda Lenore Wilson, under the ID GH71-M4R, but without dates or parents, created by user "Don Henricks" at the very end of last year. (The two Charles Stewarts should certainly be merged.)
I think you must be misremembering which brother you'd seen before in the Tree, because there is no sign anywhere of anyone besides you ever doing anything with Norman Young Stewart: you're the one who created that profile, and you're the one who added him to his parents, all on 3 September this year.
Following the changelogs ("Show All" in the Latest Changes section of the right-hand column), I see that many of the family's profiles ultimately go back to FS's preceding systems; they were imported into the current Family Tree in 2012, credited to "FamilySearch". They're too well fleshed-out, and there isn't evidence of enough merges, for them to be extraction-based profiles, so I think they were very likely from the IGI's user-submitted section. I don't think submitter information for that is preserved anywhere, unfortunately. (It's certainly not available anywhere where lowly non-LDS like me can see it.)
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Following on Julia Szent-Györgyi's comment: here are some other places you can look for collaborators:
- Look for your family in FamilySearch Genealogies. That is a collection of trees uploaded by others who want to archive static trees. Search them here: https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees
- Put in your Following list all the current heads of your ancestry tree. Then, for each head view their descendancy tree.
- Do some work on all those descendancy trees. This will help you connect with other contributors who are working ancestry trees but have not yet managed to build out far enough to connect to your ancestry tree.
- Leave welcoming notes on all the tips, ancestors and descendants alike.
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