How to search for only people that are on the tree I am working on?

Tom Huber said: I do not think you understand that there are no individual trees in FamilySearch Family Tree. The following may help:

Introducing FamilySearch Family Tree

FamilySearch FamilyTree is a single tree that is a collaborative effort, built around an open-edit model, allowing any person, including yourself to add to and make changes on any person who lived throughout history, including all of our deceased relatives.

There is no "my tree" in FamilySearch FamilyTree — it is a tree for all mankind. If you have found errors, you need to know why those errors are there. It could be that someone incorrectly combined another person's record with your relative. It could be that someone found a source that they thought applied to your relative, but it did not. It could be that someone just knew that their information was correct and entered that.

There are sites that support independent trees and building them. FamilySearch is not one of those sites.

If you are unfamiliar with how to work with the massive tree (now containing over 1.2 Billion persons), The Family History Guide (http://thefhguide.com/) is an approved training resource. It not only contains procedures for working with the site and the massive tree, but also exercises for you to use.

Of course, that does address your question, so the following may also help:

First, when you log into FamilySearch, there is a section on the home page that displays up to fifty of the last persons you visited when you previously logged into the system. This is the same list as the "Recents" list that can be accessed from some of the pages while working with the massive tree..

I maintain a separate program on my local computer that I can use with FamilySearch and it tracks where I was last at in my local database. From there, I can list all the names in my database, without pulling in names that I'm not related to.

There are three very good family tree management programs listed in the Solutions Gallery (link at the bottom of this and most FamilySearch.org pages). They are Ancestral Quest, Legacy, and RootsMagic. All of them have free versions so you can try them out to see which one you like the best.

JT said: Good question. Unless you keep your own program or Ancestry database up to date, this feature of FamilySearch could help:

Add people onto your watch list, for your main direct-line "pedigree" ancestors, as well as any people on "your" tree you may be interested in coming back to later. Click the "Watch" button on their top right "Details" page, or on the small details pop-up little window.

Then to get to your watch list, click the "Lists" menu item on the "Family Tree" menu. You can sort the list by last name if you can't remember the first name.