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Tools for using family tree/Search (view source)
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'''Stories''' Using Stories for some of the features of research logs or even for recording personal interviews (either formal or memories) are also a great way to document an ancestor. Future enhancements of FamilySearch will allow these stories to become sources as well. | '''Stories''' Using Stories for some of the features of research logs or even for recording personal interviews (either formal or memories) are also a great way to document an ancestor. Future enhancements of FamilySearch will allow these stories to become sources as well. | ||
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'''Photos/Documents'''<br> | ==== '''Photos/Documents'''<br> ==== | ||
You can upload photos(or other images including documents) as further evidence of your ancestors. Future enhancements to these tools will allow you to separate photos from documents and create sources from them. You can even organize these images into albums and attach them to stories. | You can upload photos(or other images including documents) as further evidence of your ancestors. Future enhancements to these tools will allow you to separate photos from documents and create sources from them. You can even organize these images into albums and attach them to stories. If you have a document in a foreign language, you can upload a scanned copy as a photo. Then link the translation as a story. | ||
[[Category:FamilySearch]] | [[Category:FamilySearch]] | ||
'''Create Traceable Family Lines''' | |||
Put together 5 generation pedigree indexes as documents Then tag your direct line ancestors in each document. Every 5 generations an ancestor will appear in both pedigrees allowing you to bridge the link between them. Put these pedigrees in into a single album called my tree. | |||
Name your tags differently as well: | |||
Name (b.Year) [pi.#] | |||
pi# is the first pedigree index that they appear in | |||
So whenever I need to trace back a line I just go to the document find the person tagged with an earlier pi# and use the tree link off that tag. that person will give me a link to the next pedigree chart and so on and so on. That allows you to jump multiple generations and view a pedigree chart at the same time. When you go to the tree view of that person its a direct line ancestor and you can see descendants on the left. | |||