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Nathaniel Simon Notheisen
Nathaniel Simon Notheisen ✭
February 3 edited June 3 in Family Tree

Something that is needed along with the global tree are personal tree's like ancestry or most other genealogical programs. You can't do proper research without it. Also, there should be a way to confirm or authorize any information that is added. Though it may be annoying for some, it will eliminate most errors that we find now.

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  • Amy Archibald
    Amy Archibald ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 3

    You may want to look at this that is being testing in FamilySearch Labs:
    https://www.familysearch.org/en/labs/docs/CETsLearnMore

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  • Nathaniel Simon Notheisen
    Nathaniel Simon Notheisen ✭
    February 3

    Thank you

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  • Wayland K Adams
    Wayland K Adams mod
    February 3

    There are a couple of things. Certainly, the information provided by @Amy Archibald is one way Family Search is providing personal trees. Family Search just added a Quality Score to each person page. This provides not only a score, but an explanation behind the score of any conflicts or other issues. While it is available to a limited set of person pages, I suspect at some point it will be introduced to all person page. Regardless of personal trees, ancestry trees or others, the information is only as good as the sources backing up the information.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 3

    If you want to borrow a book, you don't go to the bookstore, you go to the library. Similarly, if you want an individual family tree, you use one of the individual-tree websites or an offline program, not one of the collaborative-tree platforms.

    And it is very much possible to use the collaborative tree on FamilySearch as one's primary or first-level genealogy platform, perfecting each profile, finding and attaching all the sources, and then copying the result to an offline program or other platform.

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