Help Center article on searching historical records

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Paul said: After a recent post I made on another thread and reading another at https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea..., I thought I would try to find an article on the subject in the title.

Easily found - it's at https://www.familysearch.org/help/hel... Some good tips here - a shame it can't be given even more prominence in order to help less experienced users in their searches.

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Tom Huber said: There are a number of good articles on how to subjects, but they have not been well-organized. Hopefully, that is something that will be done some time in the future.

What is somewhat irritating is if you click on Getting Started it takes you to a site page that is dedicated to introducing FamilySearch FamilyTree.

However... (and this is where a style guide, if used, would really, really help), the material on that page constantly refers to "Your" tree. There is no "My" or "Your" tree with the massive tree on FamilySearch. That page -- https://www.familysearch.org/home/etb... -- needs to be edited and the misinformation, corrected.

Why does FamilySearch describe FamilyTree as a Social Network? The tree is a Genealogical Construct containing the names and relationships and information of deceased people who have been identified by other users.

It should not identify the tree (in this instance) as "My" tree or as "Your" tree. This is very misleading and we get a lot of people that we have to explain that there is no "My" or "Your" tree.

As to Search Historical Records, there is absolutely no reference to the Article, and yet, here is where it would be most useful.



This is the second part of the same page. Here, "Your" tree actually refers to the private place where users can find and record the information about themselves and their living relatives.

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Adrian Bruce said: Mind you, "Check boxes by ... place fields" is a lot more complex than even this lets on - as you know, Paul, and as Juli regularly fulminates!