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If you click Get Help and then choose Learning Center you come to all the training videos, but then you have to search for Family Tree, Family Tree training, or Family Tree curriculum to get the videos. Here is a wiki site that lists all of these. It is easier to choose what you want to learn about. | If you click Get Help and then choose Learning Center you come to all the training videos, but then you have to search for Family Tree, Family Tree training, or Family Tree curriculum to get the videos. Here is a wiki site that lists all of these. It is easier to choose what you want to learn about. | ||
[https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Training_for_FamilySearch_Family_Tree | [https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Training_for_FamilySearch_Family_Tree Training for FamilySearch Family Tree] The following includes a link to the training Family Search Family Tree missionaries use. It is maintained by one of those missionaries and is not an official church site. | ||
[http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/fhd/Community/en/FamilyTreeCurriculum/index.html | [http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/fhd/Community/en/FamilyTreeCurriculum/index.html FamilyTree Curriculum] | ||
==== This blog explains ways to correct common mistakes ==== | ==== This blog explains ways to correct common mistakes ==== | ||
https://familysearch.org/blog/en/common-mistakes-family-tree-data | [https://familysearch.org/blog/en/common-mistakes-family-tree-data Family Tree: Common Mistakes] | ||
==== Making Hints More Accurate ==== | ==== Making Hints More Accurate ==== | ||
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Always accept an FamilySearch hint that is right, even when it is a duplicate because this reduces the possibility that another user will create a duplicate person to match the duplicate record. If you attach the duplicate source to the correct person, others will see your ancestor. When someone searches for a record of their ancestor, they will come to a screen that says, review match in Tree. They will see that the person is already in Family Tree If you declare it not a match they will be able to link that source to a duplicate person | Always accept an FamilySearch hint that is right, even when it is a duplicate because this reduces the possibility that another user will create a duplicate person to match the duplicate record. If you attach the duplicate source to the correct person, others will see your ancestor. When someone searches for a record of their ancestor, they will come to a screen that says, review match in Tree. They will see that the person is already in Family Tree If you declare it not a match they will be able to link that source to a duplicate person | ||
If this feels like clutter follow the instructions How to Organize Sources: Using Title Sources to create a heading to | If this feels like clutter follow the instructions How to Organize Sources: Using Title Sources to create a heading to separate duplicate sources. <br> | ||
Marking correct hints as not a match damage the hinting system. You are giving the hinting system incorrect information. It says oh I [the program] made a mistake; this record really does not belong to this person so I need to revise my [the program's] methodology for finding potential source matches. | Marking correct hints as not a match damage the hinting system. You are giving the hinting system incorrect information. It says oh I [the program] made a mistake; this record really does not belong to this person so I need to revise my [the program's] methodology for finding potential source matches. | ||
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==== FamilySearch Person Centric System introduces a Modern Linking Model. ==== | ==== FamilySearch Person Centric System introduces a Modern Linking Model. ==== | ||
FamilySearch is a person centric system. Each person listed in the indexed historical records collections has their own unique persistent archival link (URL) or person source and hence | FamilySearch is a person centric system. Each person listed in the indexed historical records collections has their own unique persistent archival link (URL) or person source and hence their own unique web page. Linking a person source, or page, from the historical records to a conclusion person in the Family Tree is the manner by which a researcher tells the system that the two people are the same. This system allows FamilySearch to account for each individual recorded in the records more accurately than does the ambiguous linking of images, which may contain many unspecified individuals. | ||
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The above explanation is true only for FamilySearch, or 3rd party records, that are encoded in the new GedcomX data standard. At present (Oct 17 2013) only FamilySearch uses this model, but there is significant interest from other record keeping organizations. Source links created to external images, documents, etc that are NOT encoded in GedcomX will not have any of the rich internal knowledge. They consist of largely a URL | The above explanation is true only for FamilySearch, or 3rd party records, that are encoded in the new GedcomX data standard. At present (Oct 17 2013) only FamilySearch uses this model, but there is significant interest from other record keeping organizations. Source links created to external images, documents, etc that are NOT encoded in GedcomX will not have any of the rich internal knowledge. They consist of largely a URL--whatever titles and citation info the user provides and little more. These external sources may need to be linked to multiple persons in the old manner. | ||
===== The following explains how to properly link a family in the FamilySearch records. ===== | ===== The following explains how to properly link a family in the FamilySearch records. ===== | ||
1. From the main page search form conduct a search of Records, or from the person page in Family Tree, click on the ''Search Records'' button. Choose a record from the search results. If there is only one name indexed in that source proceed as normal. (Click on ''Attach to My Tree'' and attach the record to your ancestor.) There may also be a father, mother, spouse, or child or other relative indexed in blue on the page. Click on the blue name link for one of those other people. Now the page will change to show the title of the person source with their name in it. Now click on ''Attach to My Tree'' and attach this record to the individual. So attach the father to the father, mother to mother, child to child, etc. Note that records for spouses can be attached to the marriage record which is a layer deeper than the person page, however this is not necessary for FamilySearch records since each person record knows about the persons present on it and what events it provides evidence for. If you need to attach non-FamilySearch | 1. From the main page search form conduct a search of Records, or from the person page in Family Tree, click on the ''Search Records'' button. Choose a record from the search results. If there is only one name indexed in that source proceed as normal. (Click on ''Attach to My Tree'' and attach the record to your ancestor.) There may also be a father, mother, spouse, or child or other relative indexed in blue on the page. Click on the blue name link for one of those other people. Now the page will change to show the title of the person source with their name in it. Now click on ''Attach to My Tree'' and attach this record to the individual. So attach the father to the father, mother to mother, child to child, etc. Note that records for spouses can be attached to the marriage record which is a layer deeper than the person page, however this is not necessary for FamilySearch records since each person record knows about the persons present on it and what events it provides evidence for. If you need to attach non-FamilySearch records to an event, click on ''Edit Couple'' to find this layer. | ||
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See Using the Source Box Master Copies for a suggestion as to how to create one record for each person in a source record that is not indexed. | See Using the Source Box Master Copies for a suggestion as to how to create one record for each person in a source record that is not indexed. | ||
=== Assorted Good Ideas === | === Assorted Good Ideas === | ||