If I have names, dates, relationships, etc that I have been told personally from elder family member

LegacyUser

If I have names, dates, relationships, etc that I have been told personally from elder family members or found scratched on a page in grandmas Bible that do not have public records that can be referenced how do I get that information out there?

I have not posted my own tree yet, I have only been searching through others but there have been occasions when I know the name is incorrect or dates are switched and I would like to know how to correct or contact the contributor.

Dennis J Yancey

all of FamilySearch Family Tree is editable by all users.

just find the specific person and fact and click the edit button

You can cite your family documents as sources.

 

also check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwRSRZ9amlM

JeffWiseman

Hi Cheryl! I have two thoughts for you,

 

1. Nobody "posts [their] own tree" in the FamilySearch FamilyTree. It is totally different than most other sites like Ancestry.com. It is a single shared tree with over 1.3 billion persons in it at present. Everyone works together on that same tree. So basically, the record of your 3x great grandfather exists in only ONE place in the tree where anyone (including yourself) can view, modify, and improve it.
2. Something that you have been personally told by a senior family member, or even found in a family bible may not seem to be the most "solid" of sources, but they ARE legitimate sources. You can document that information in a new source or memory in FamilySearch, and then you can attach it to the person record and tag it to the vitals it supports. Until someone finds a more "solid" source (e.g., birth certificates or census records, etc.), those sources you provide are more than adequate to justify the data that you recorded in those vitals. That way, anyone looking at where the vitals came from can far more easily evaluate the reasoning behind them, especially if other documents are later found that appear to contradict them.