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there is nothing wrong with starting a tree with yourself or your parents. Noone but you will see any living people you enter into the tree. However if you prefer to start with members of your family who are deceased there is a way to do this. Go to the Person dropdown list and at the bottom is "Add unconnected Person". You could do this for each of your grandparents. Then bookmark the page where they come up. Once you have visited each page, they will come up in the person drop down list without your having to use your bookmarks. | there is nothing wrong with starting a tree with yourself or your parents. Noone but you will see any living people you enter into the tree. However if you prefer to start with members of your family who are deceased there is a way to do this. Go to the Person dropdown list and at the bottom is "Add unconnected Person". You could do this for each of your grandparents. Then bookmark the page where they come up. Once you have visited each page, they will come up in the person drop down list without your having to use your bookmarks. | ||
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==== Searching for Duplicates<br> ==== | |||
Possible duplicates only shows 3 star matches and above. And when we submit names for ordinances only 4 star and above are considered. Sometimes records with exact matches do not show up in the duplicates. One factor that can cause this is that one record does not have standardized dates and or locations. | |||
This is a very complicated issue. In new FamilySearch many more possible duplicates were displayed and the result was that a significant amout of incorrect combining created numerous "hidden records" and much confusion. FamilyTree is trying to avoid merges poor quality merges between well sourced individuals and ones that don't have enough information to determine if they are truly the same individual. | |||
Depending on where you start ( the specific record), you may see different results in the duplicates page. This is because different information is used as the basis for the search. Sometimes duplicate records are missed. If you strongly believe there may be a duplicate record, Here is an alternate way to search.<br>1. Use the find function to search for individuals in the tree - using this function you can add or change information such as birth location etc. This allows a much wider view of possible duplicates. <br>2. Examine each record you find and determine which ones you believe are really duplicate records. Write down the ID's of each duplicate. <br>3. Use the possible duplicate screen but then the merge by ID function to combine the duplicate records. | |||
The above procedure will allow you more choice in your search but <u>you must be very careful</u> in your search. For example, 6 people with the same name were born in the same small town in England within a 6 year period. One of them is the spouse of your ancestor but you cannot be sure which one. Two of them actually have the same parents names. It would be incorrect to merge these records. Just because they are close in time and location does not mean they are the same individuals and sometimes records have been linked incorrectly in the past so they might show the same spouses. One way to tease records apart is to look at the individuals in new.familysearch.org<br> | |||
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=== Using Stories and Photos/Documents === | === Using Stories and Photos/Documents === | ||
Cutepfd.com has a free online editor that allows you to rotate pages in a pdf file individually. So if some pages were scanned correctly, but a few turned to the side, you can fix the problem here. It opens online in Chrome. You can edit the pdf online and save it back to your computer there. At this moment it does not open in firefox. | Editing Pdf Files ==== | ||
Cutepfd.com has a free online editor that allows you to rotate pages in a pdf file individually. So if some pages were scanned correctly, but a few turned to the side, you can fix the problem here. It opens online in Chrome. You can edit the pdf online and save it back to your computer there. At this moment it does not open in firefox. | |||
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