Correct Mistakes on Your FamilySearch Family Tree • • FamilySearch Blog
Correct Mistakes on Your FamilySearch Family Tree • • FamilySearch Blog
Have you ever wanted to correct a mistake in your FamilySearch Family Tree? Here are some things you can do to make your tree as accurate as possible.
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I know that one contributor has made at least one change to someone in my family tree based on the "See Who's Contributing" notification I received today. Is there a way of finding that change or addition easily? I don't feel like opening every individual in the tree and scanning their details looking for the name of the new contributor. I want to validate this change and acknowledge it, if it's correct. There has to be an easier way than slogging through the entire tree ... I hope.
Thanks,
Dave Olinyk
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When you are on a person's detail page in the FamilySearch Family Tree, in the right column under "Latest Changes", click on "Show All". This will show you all the contributors for that particular person and their contribution. You can view this Change Log for any person whom you are working on in the FamilySearch Family Tree. The campaign specific to "See Who's Contributing" only provides the top 5 contributors to your part of the Tree. It doesn't list the details of what they contributed. You can click on the name of each contributor and if both of you have enabled relationship viewing, you can see how you are related to them. You can also message them directly and ask how you may be related and in what area of the Tree they are working.
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I accidentally put my mother as my grandmother and mother to my father. Can I start over? How do i correct this?
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You will need to edit the relationships between these people in order to fix this. Please check out these Help Center articles for instructions:
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How do I correct an ordinance record that shows a person born in the covenant?
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Thank you for your question. Please visit the FamilySearch Community - Temple category. Create a new post in that category. Ask the same question and provide the PID of the person from the FamilySearch Family Tree and any additional information as to why how it is currently recorded is incorrect. Support staff will be able to assist you.
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There is an error in my FamilyTree. General Morgan Kersey was placed in the tree as the father of Thomas Wesley Kersey Sr. when in fact he was the Grandfather and Thomas Wright Kersey was omitted. The correct linage should have been General Morgan Kersey,born 1839, then Thomas Wright Kersey, born 1887, then Thomas Wesley Kersey Sr, born 1921, and finally me, Thomas Wesley Kersey Jr., born 1943, and my son Thomas Wesley Kersey III, born 1977. Individual records show correct information for these individuals but the Family Tree got constructed with error that omitted my grandfather.
Thanks, T. Wesley Kersey
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Can I create a tree private to me that no one else can change?
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Thank you for your question about private trees. FamilySearch is a collaborative tree where all users can participate in one shared tree. If you would like your own private tree, please check out: Ancestral Quest, RootsMagic, Legacy Family Tree, and Ancestry.
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Please check out this Help Center article for instructions: How do I correct parent-child relationships in Family Tree?
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This did not tell me how to remove a person from the family tree
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@Amy Archibald Interesting that you don't recommend using FamilySearch's own provision to do this - see https://www.familysearch.org/search/genealogies
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How and where should I report an error in the typed transcription that accompanies a picture of a source? For example, the fact that every entry in the microfilm 804226 or 00756836 (531 pages) has "Paddington, Queensland, Australia" when it should read "Paddington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom" in column 14 "Marriage Place".
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How do I fix a child line up. There are 10 children under Perry Smith, and the 5th child should be Carl Smith, and the 6 th child should be Etheleen Gibson. I don’t know how to correct it. Thank you
Janice Gibson Pritchard
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Please post your concern in the FamilySearch Community - Indexing category.
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Children are listed in order based on their birthdate. Please check the vitals for both of these individuals to make sure that the standardized birth date is entered for each one. This will place them in the correct birth order.
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Thank you all, for your marvellous site, which I access almost daily but to which I have contributed little. If I was more IT competent I possibly could add data to assist in the 'tree's growth' and I'm especially reluctant to amend existing data, particularly where it has been introduced by FamilySearch itself.
Accordingly I ask do you have a section or group of experts who could examine possible errors and amend the data, if necessary?
Hope you have the time to respond and, in the meantime, I send Seasons Greetings to all.
My thanks in advance, kind regards.....Phil Grace.
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I am searching my Father's family tree. He is a Senior. His son is a Junior. His record has a mistake. It incorrectly shows his spouse as his son's spouse.
How can these inaccurate entries be corrected?
Walter Schupp
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I added my name as my parents child at one time,,,,,a few years later I thought I was adding my information,,,,but I accidentally added my name again,,,,,now it says I'm my sister,,,,,I'm an only child,,,,,I would like to add information about my children, but I hesitate until this extra name is removed,,,,I'm not technically smart,,,,thank you
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I am comparing two pages from familysearch.org that disagree with one another. On one page it shows a child of Sir Robert Potter as George Potter:
but the family tree page with all of his children does not show a George Potter or any other child born in 1584:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/GVCK-SST
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All my previously added information on family tree is gone?
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Please contact FamilySearch Support for help with your account.
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When creating my family tree I added my three sisters but because they’re still alive, thank God, they’re private. Wonder how they can use their own ID that I created?
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The IDs you created for them reside in your private space in the shared Family Tree. No other user can see them or access them. Your sisters, when they create their own accounts will have their own IDs for any living persons which will only be accessible to them as well.
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My daddy's father's name is wrong, I should be Samuel Rufus Moon, not John Napier. How do I correct this?
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It looks like William is listed as both a son of John Napier and also as a son of Samuel Rufus Moon. You can edit the relationship on the wrong parent and then your tree will show correctly. Please see this Help Center article for instructions: How do I correct parent-child relationships in Family Tree?
If you want to keep both fathers, then in order to see the one you want to see on reports like the tree charts, you will need to set the preferred flag for that relationship. How do I set the preferred spouse or parents in Family Tree?
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I cannot believe all the mistakes on my shared Family Tree. I recently became a DAR member and had one of branches verified by many different people. It would hours to correct the hundreds of mistakes linked to my DAR ancestor, and so many others. I will stick with Ancestry for my trees.
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Familysearch is a total disaster. Having a "shared" family tree with the whole world is the worst idea and has created mountains of inaccurate information and errors. I have a grandmother sealed to her spouse she divorced, a great great grandfather who's had his work done 12 times, and currently a 10th cousin who has reserved my great grandparents temple sealing and they got married in the temple. How do ordinances get changed like that? It's a complete disaster. I agree that Ancestry is the best and safest way to have accurate information--that no one else can CHANGE. I get that we want the youth involved, but it's a bad idea to let kids have access to all the hard work of those more experienced and who have put the time and effort into making sure things are right.
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Thank you for your feedback. For people who are requesting temple work on ancestors who did their own work, please look for duplicate records within the Tree that need to be merged. This will stop the duplicate work. Also, sealings are for any relationship that existed in mortality - even if the people were divorced. All people can choose to accept or decline ordinances provided.
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I have found 6 generations of same person interchanging with herself and a daughter older than her! impossible to fix a nightmare
try changing to Ancestry format its simple!!!
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