Reacting to Changes in the FamilySearch Family Tree -James Tanner (11 Feb 2024)

Complete Title: Why Did Someone Change My Grandmother? Reacting to Changes in the FamilySearch Family Tree - James Tanner (11 Feb 2024)
Why Did Someone Change My Grandmother? The answer is complex if you are talking about changes made to the FamilySearch.org Family Tree. This class explains the basics of working with a collaborative, source based, user friendly family tree and explains some basic survival methods. Although the Family Tree seems to engender a lot of concern, it is basically a very useful and well-developed tool for storing and sharing genealogical information. Come and learn why this is the case.
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[@susandougherty9673]

Love this talk. Thanks.

[@Paul_Sheila]

Sheila here: this is a fantastic video! I’m new; less than 3 years into it. I’m comfortable to be an “educatee;” always a learner. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.

[@lumbaracres3587]

Thanks for your perspective on issues that have bugged me for too long. I appreciate having another way to think about random changes on family tree, a more charitable perspective. Even so, I still have no tolerance for one individual who created ex nihilo generations of first-name-only people and tacked them to a couple of places on my tree, claiming there were no sources because the information was "in a confidential notebook".

[@susanlinders6568]

But there is a great deal of bad or lazy research so it's frustrating that the Family Search trees have many instances of the results of that research.

[@chieffamilygenealogyoffice621]

I take my”stick” as I have loaded it up with my resources and blogs that it have-no backpack any more!

[@mardeanchandler5177]

I have an instance where a man based all the changes he made on a person in my tree back 5 generations on a sewing project labeled in a museum in Tennessee. Even though I have all the documentation attached to her that shows who she was and when she died and who her children were and his actual person lived 15 years longer. He still says she is his ancestor 😢