Tips for Using Ancestry and How It Connects to FamilySearch • FamilySearch
Tips for Using Ancestry and How It Connects to FamilySearch • FamilySearch
Using both FamilySearch and Ancestry can lead to more genealogy discoveries. Here’s how to use Ancestry along with FamilySearch (including A…
Comments
-
You can use the app called RecordSeek to add any ancestry record page, or any other webpage, as a family search source to any person in your family Search tree.
A great resource when searching for your family records and adding them to family Search.Download the RecordSeek app and bookmark it to your taskbar, in a way that it is always visible (for easier access).
When you are on a webpage or record, click the record seek app, select family search, edit the source name if you wish, and on the next screen, paste the family search ID For the person to whom you want to attach the source.
to add the source to multiple people, simply repeat the process using each person‘s family search ID individually. This also allows you to customize the source name, eg add their name, for each person.0 -
Once you have all the sources attached in both FamilySearch simply use the compare button from the FamilySearch tree in Ancestry and you can mark the sources you want to pass between the two site, then click save at the bottom.
1 -
i’m glad to see this article about the relative benefits of using both Ancestry and Familysearch, and the comments have additional useful contributions, but I believe the suggestion in the article about copying images needs a little moderation: I believe it’s unethical to copy images without the permission of the original posters. It’s OK to reference the same sources, but copying images from one place and pasting them into either Ancestry or Familysearch without the permission of the person who originated the image is unethical.
What I sometimes do in such situations is indicate in the notes with the source that there are excellent images in the referenced location and something of their nature, so that people could follow the link and see for themselves. I also think —I hope I’m right in this —that it’s OK to summarize or paraphrase the contents of an image without actually copying the image.
0 -
brs Thank you for your suggestion. We have forwarded this onto our team.
0 -
I'd suggest a more detailed approach to adding an Ancestry source to FamilySearch. Here's what I do:
- Go to Sources, and "Add New Source"
- Copy the Ancestry title to the FamilySearch Source Title. Add a date if appropriate
- From the Share button in Ancestry get a Share link ( [Copy Link] ), and paste it into the Web Page link on the Add Source page
- Copy the text from the Detail tab to Notes
- Copy the text from the Source tab to Citation (I leave off the Description).
This provides all of the info, and a link back to Ancestry for more info if necessary; Ancestry users can connect back to the original source if they like.
1 -
SheamusPatt Thank you for your detailed process. I'm sure that will be helpful to many! Happy Researching!
0
