can I have 2 different trees at the same time? If so how?
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It is all one single massive database that we all share - a complex family tree of BILLIONS of people and MILLIONS of interconnected Family Trees
it is the same database that all of us access.
you can add any person/family/tree you wish (to the same single database) - - just check first to ensure they aren't already in the system
To add someone that is not directly linked to the family that you are working on
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click on "Family Tree / Tree / Recents / Add Unconnected Person
Here are some related pages on the subject:
http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/collaborate.htm
also this page may be of interest
https://community.familysearch.org/s/feed/0D53A00004qZopWSAS
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@Kim Woolard-Schellberg
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Short Answer: 'No', we DO NOT have 'Trees' in "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch.
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But ...
That said ...
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You can certainly add more 'Branches' to your 'Pedigree' (ie. Ancestral lines).
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We do not have our OWN "Tree" in "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch".
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We ONLY have "Branches", that are interconnected, in this SINGLE "One" World "Tree", for all of us, that is "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch".
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"Family Tree" of "FamilySearch" is NOT like "Ancestry_com" or the like.
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We DO NOT have "Private"/"Personal" 'Trees' in "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch" like other "Web" Sites; and/or, 'standalone' personal programmes.
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We do not even, own; or, manage; and, are NOT even responsible for, the "Deceased" individuals/person in "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch".
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"Family Tree" of "FamilySearch" is built on a "Open Edit" Platform - hence, why any registered User/Patron can "Edit" (ie. Add, Delete; and/or, Change) ANY "Deceased" individual/person in "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch".
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Here is a good place to start, with how things work in "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch" (and, other programmes as well):
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Introducing The Family History Guide
https://www.familysearch.org/ask/learningViewer/733
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Introducing The Family History Guide
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The Family History Guide
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I hope this helps.
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Brett
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I guess it depends on what one means by "family trees"
to many people a family tree is just a collection of inter-connected related people
FamilySearch Family tree - is full of them
BUT as Brett points out - it is single "world tree" or database - that we all share collaboratively.
(there is no concept of "my tree that I own" and "your tree that you own")
we all share the same database which houses all the records of all the users.
But can you start work on a separate group of people in the database??
of course (starting with the "add unconnected person")
if you want to call that "a different tree" - that's fine with me
as long as you realize, as Brett and I point out - its all within a single massive database that we all share.
Ultimately if all records were known and in the database - it would be one single human "family tree" - from the beginning of mankind until now - in one database.
But of course for now - we have a long ways to go before all the people get entered 😃
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