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can I have 2 different trees at the same time? If so how?

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User15872297129661230958
April 18, 2020 edited February 10, 2021 in Family Tree
can I have 2 different trees at the same time? If so how?
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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    April 18, 2020 Answer ✓

    [click "expand post" to see entire response ]

     

    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

    in FamilyTree -

    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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  • Brett .
    Brett . ✭✭✭✭✭
    April 19, 2020 Answer ✓

    @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

    https://ps-services-us-east-1-914248642252.s3.amazonaws.com/s3%2Fhelp-learningcenter-fh1-prod-s3%2F2019%2F03%2F08%2F9b82903f-89e0-426f-8815-5e652b960d17%2FIntroducing-TFHG.pdf

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    The Family History Guide

    https://www.thefhguide.com/.

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    I hope this helps.

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    Brett

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    April 19, 2020 Answer ✓

    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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