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Want to display your family story in a fun, creative way? The following free family tree templates will help you do just that. These family …

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  • LookingforIsrael
    LookingforIsrael ✭
    April 29

    Very cool but please make it clear that anyone on Family Search can add any information to another person's tree .. It could be incorrect information but Family Search do NOT care, nor will they correct or delete trees. The apps are cool but beware if you post a tree on this site as anyone can add incorrect information

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  • myfamily510
    myfamily510 ✭
    May 7
    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/447509#Comment_447509

    that happened to me folks was adding wrong info to MY grandfather and telling me I was wrong with my info really he was my grandfather!!--so I stopped doing my tree--without knowing when I first starting doing this I deleted someone's WRONG info and he came back at me saying how long it took him to post all that info and I explained that there is NO such person in our line with that name and he was angry so yes I stopped expanding the tree.

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  • LoriGonzales
    LoriGonzales ✭
    May 8

    I have also found incorrect information in the family tree. Some of these errors go back several generations. I don't change the information in the tree, unless I am editing individuals I have added. However, I do post notes in the "additional information." I am not a genealogist, but I am a historian. Always check the sources and the dates. I have come across several with no sources and unless the information is posted by a family member within living memory/history, I always question the information and do my own research. I follow the same rules as when I do historical research: check, recheck and compare the sources with other sources. One should also accept that it may not be possible to find information on some ancestors. Recorded births, deaths and marriages were not required in many regions until the 19th century. Nor, did every couple become officially "married." It also helps to understand spelling variations in names and naming customs. Not that they all followed custom, but it may help. Patience is the key and the best advice I ever received was, "let the sources do the talking."

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  • Linda Betkie
    Linda Betkie ✭
    June 14

    I have been experiencing the same situation with someone (a very distant relative) adding incorrect information from actual sources. He does not take the time to actually research the person he is adding. He twice added MY mother as deceased and she is living. I know what happened, he read the obituary for one of her parents and put her as the decedent. In addition, he has added people who are no way connected to my family. Three messages to him have gone unheeded. You are right, FamilySearch does not care nor have helped resolve this in any way. It is just so frustrating. I guess the only course is to abandon my FamilySearch tree.

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