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Tools for using family tree/Search (view source)
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Many genealogists are used to creating one source for a record and then simply editing the page number and attaching it to individuals. Since one page might contain from five to one hundred people, many might have the same source. The designers of family tree have a different vision. They want each person and each record to be specifically linked to each other. This takes advantage of some of the powerful aspects of a computer. Here is an explanation in one designer's words. | Many genealogists are used to creating one source for a record and then simply editing the page number and attaching it to individuals. Since one page might contain from five to one hundred people, many might have the same source. The designers of family tree have a different vision. They want each person and each record to be specifically linked to each other. This takes advantage of some of the powerful aspects of a computer. Here is an explanation in one designer's words. | ||
1) The FamilySearch system is person centric. We | 1) The FamilySearch system is person centric. We show links to images and to persons. There is no link shown to a birth certificate. Each person on the birth certificate will have their own link and each person on the certificate should be linked individually to the correct person in the Family Tree. This is true for all records. If you find the head of household on a census record, you will see listed all of the people in that household that he has a relationship with. Their names will be links to their records in the census. Please do not link the head of household's record to every person he is related to. Linking a person in the record to a person in the tree is the method you use to tell the system that these two people are the same. | ||
2) If you link the indexed source for a person record in a collection to the Family Tree you get the image (if there is one) and collection information for free. These are associated with the person records. | 2) If you link the indexed source for a person record in a collection to the Family Tree you get the image (if there is one) and collection information for free. These are associated with the person records. | ||
The following explains how to accomplish this. | For example, with proper linking we could provide tools that: | ||
• Suggest that you link other individuals in the same record to corresponding relatives of the ancestor. So you extract all the info from a record. | |||
• Include a link in familysearch.org next to each name in a record that takes you to the corresponding ancestor in FamilyTree. | |||
• Indicate who in a record or submitted tree still needs to be linked into FamilyTree. | |||
• Optionally filter out linked-in individuals from search results for records or submitted trees (i.e., in order for users to be able to focus on new information that hasn't already been assimilated into the tree yet). | |||
• Automatically know which conclusion types the source satisfies for a given ancestor (as well as what values it has for each conclusion type!) | |||
• Display in the source list a summary of what each individual-linked source says about the ancestor. | |||
• Show what all the "individual" sources say about a particular conclusion (e.g., birth event). | |||
Most of these helpful features aren't possible if the people in the records are incorrectly linked to the people in the tree that aren't them. <br> | |||
===== The following explains how to accomplish this. ===== | |||
1. From the person page, click on the ''Search Records'' button. Choose a record. 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 link for one of those other people. Now the page will change to show the title of the 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. Click on ''Edit Couple'' to find this layer. | 1. From the person page, click on the ''Search Records'' button. Choose a record. 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 link for one of those other people. Now the page will change to show the title of the 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. 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. | ||