New Ancestor Discovery Pages Provide a Rich, Engaging Family History Experience • • FamilySearch Blog
New Ancestor Discovery Pages Provide a Rich, Engaging Family History Experience • • FamilySearch Blog
Ancestor discovery pages have something for everyone, whether you’re looking for a fun family activity or detailed information about an ancestor’s life.
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Love this new Discovery page. But on it I cannot find a way to edit or correct information, either from the source or from the page itself, to do that I have to g to he old version. Is there other way?
Greetings,
Pamela
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How are these Discovery pages created? It seems there are a very limited number of them, and I didn't find names of any of my ancestors. In the information about them, I didn't see any mention of how to create one.
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Mt fathers life summary on then Discovery page is incorrect. I have corrected it on the Detailed person page but it doesn't change on the discovery page. How Do I Fix This?
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I like this....thankyou
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Why such a hassel to find it ?
Why not straight off your FS Account ?
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Is there a way to print this page off
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stupid, my husband died in Perth WA, why does it say he was buried in Has Serbia, what a a lot of codswallop
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Apparently no living children show on the Discovery page.
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This is an interesting work in genealogy.
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Relatives, dates and data are mostly identical or approximate and exhibit a highly plausible match
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Hello,
I am extremely disappointed that I could not edit errors in Life Summaries, but more disappointed at how this information can be distributed to the likes of Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp without joining FamilySearch. You have opened a portal for scammers and crooks to exploit FamilySearch clients. Totally unacceptable..
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Jessica,
Something really stinks here...There is incorrect information about my father on this "New Discovery Person Page" and after contacting Family Search, I was told it was from an outside source and could not be corrected by them. I do not know who wrote and published this information, and the fact that there are no sources mentioned that could explain where the incorrect information came from leaves me very frustrated and upset. I want this information deleted. If it cannot be corrected, I WANT IT REMOVED FROM THE FAMILY SEARCH SITE. The incorrect data doesn't even make sense...my father lived in Florida from 1967 until his death in 2002. So why does his summary on this page say he lived in Poughkeepsie, New York in 2002??? I even made an online appointment with a "Family Search Specialist" to fix this wrong information through Zoom, but the appointment time came and went before any meeting began. Is this all a big scam?
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@PamelaLlavaneras and @GrantStrome and @rickfaulkner2698453 and @SPhillipp
The information for the Ancestor Discovery Pages comes from the standardized dates and places on the person’s detail page in the FamilySearch Family Tree. If there are errors in the Discovery Page, they are also in the Tree. Fix them in the Tree and they will reflect correctly on the Discovery Page. The Discovery Pages are refreshed every couple of weeks.
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The Ancestor Discovery Pages are created from information in the FamilySearch Family Tree. The purpose of discovery pages is to provide a simpler view for the person page in Family Tree. It makes information easier to see, in addition to making it easier to find using search engines.
The discovery page also presents the information in an interesting and engaging way to make it more relevant for new users of FamilySearch.
In order to protect privacy, living people in Family Tree do not have discovery pages.
If a Discovery Page is not yet available for your deceased ancestor, you can cause one to be created by adding the ancestor's FamilySearch ID number at the end of the URL "ancestors.familysearch.org/". For example, if I knew that my ancestor's person ID was "LBT7-PXC" then I would type the URL "ancestors.familysearch.org/LBT7-PXC" into my browser.
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The Ancestor Discovery Pages are available by link at the top of the person's detail page in the FamilySearch Family Tree. Or if a Discovery Page is not yet available for your deceased ancestor, you can cause one to be created by adding the ancestor's FamilySearch ID number at the end of the URL "ancestors.familysearch.org/". For example, if I knew that my ancestor's person ID was "LBT7-PXC" then I would type the URL "ancestors.familysearch.org/LBT7-PXC" into my browser.
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The Ancestor Discovery Pages cannot be printed. They can be shared via social media or by providing the URL.
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The information for the Ancestor Discovery Pages comes from the person's standardized dates and places in the FamilySearch Family Tree. If the Discovery Page is reflecting an incorrect death location for your husband, navigate to the death field on his person page in the Family Tree. Click on edit, and set the correct standardized location for his death. The Discovery Pages refresh every couple of weeks.
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In order to protect privacy, living people in Family Tree do not have discovery pages, nor are they listed on discovery pages for deceased persons if they are related.
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How do you remove the Discovery page? It's full of errors.
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The information for the Ancestor Discovery Pages comes from the standardized dates and places on the person’s detail page in the FamilySearch Family Tree. If there are errors in the Discovery Page, they are also in the Tree. Fix them in the Tree and they will reflect correctly on the Discovery Page. The Discovery Pages are refreshed every couple of weeks. You cannot remove them from FamilySearch.
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Where are all the resource links that are normally on the right?
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Thanks for your question. I'm not sure what you are referring to. Are you asking about something that is on the Ancestor Discovery Page feature, the FamilySearch Tree person page, or the FamilySearch Blog or some place different? Please respond with more specifically what you are looking for and where.
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There is a mistake in the life history part. How can I gain access to edit that?
I can't find the way to edit that information.
Thank you.
Gary Furniss
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The information for the Ancestor Discovery Pages comes from the standardized dates and places on the person’s detail page in the FamilySearch Family Tree. If there are errors in the Discovery Page, they are also in the Tree. Fix them in the Tree and they will reflect correctly on the Discovery Page. The Discovery Pages are refreshed every couple of weeks.
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On my family's discovery page, my father's 2 other sisters (total of 3) and brother are not on it. It is on their individual pages but not there and some of the other info is wrong too. How can this be corrected?
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The information for the Ancestor Discovery Pages comes from the standardized dates and places on the person’s detail page in the FamilySearch Family Tree. If there are errors in the Discovery Page, they are also in the Tree. Fix them in the Tree and they will reflect correctly on the Discovery Page. The Discovery Pages are refreshed every couple of weeks and only contain information about deceased people. If your father's siblings are still living, they will not show up on the Ancestor Discovery Page.
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Thank you Jessica for doing this. I don't know how to suggest changes to a person's Discovery Page, but since you have this comment section, I will let you know of a discrepancy. John William Hart, I.D. KWC1-H7V, lists his second wife (Anna Boss Hart), but does not include their child, John Adolph Hart, my husband. He is listed as a son on details page. He is still living--perhaps that is why he isn't listed???
Could you please add him, or advise me why he hasn't been included?
Thank you
Shauna Hart
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Thank you for your question. The Ancestor Discovery Pages contain information about deceased persons only. No information about living persons is included as the pages are available via public search engines like Google.
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Oh my! I learn from the tags on one of my collateral ancestors that you are out there - AND you are an experienced poker-about in this mass mess of ancestry. I, now 87 years old, was once - in theory at least - one who has poked around in my family data since the days of PAF. Unfortunately, over the past 20 years, I have become a master of neglect in all things :). I seek collaberation and guidance with some kind, patient, understanding person who might mess around with the peace of life by trying to understand what things to use (I am in the discovery section at present0 so that I might do some of the much needed cleaning up that the couple of thousand records I have in one large messy pile.
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Hi
How do you correct the Discovery Page to reflect the actual Biological Parentage and not the Adopted Parentage. You defeated my entire purpose of redoing my tree in one fell swoop. In 2017, we learned that my mom, Janet Mae Shiley, was actually born Alice Mae Williams Calhoun. We petitioned the Court here in Kalamazoo, Michigan and got her Biological parents information and with a lot of work we found her family. Believe it or not, they are very Mormon on one side and Pioneers to Utah. I immediately changed my tree to reflect my Heritage and my mom’s parentage. Her parents are not Charles H. Shiley and Edna E. Stewart for our Heritage purposes. Their lineages mean nothing to us. Where they came from means nothing to us. Their blood does not flow through our veins. LaVelle Olson and Seth Calhoun’s does. So could you please reflect the correct parentage on my mom’s Discovery page. That is the only Genealogical History that means anything to us. We adored our adopted family. But they are not our roots. We spent a lot of money on DNA testing to find our family. We don’t want it undone here.
Thank you
Cheryl Lynn Gates Shepherd
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