Using the FamilySearch Family Tree: A Reference Guide (18 October 2013) LDS Version © 2013 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. This document may be copied and downloaded for incidental, noncommercial Church or your own personal use. Using the FamilySearch Family Tree: A Reference Guide (18 October 2013) LDS Version Contents Copyright and Trademarks. ? Chapter 1: Getting to Family Tree. 9 Chapter 2: Seeing Ancestors on a Pedigree Chart or Fan Chart. 11 A Person’s Summary Card. 11 A Person’s Details Page. 12 Navigating the Pedigree View. 14 Displaying More Generations of Ancestors on the Pedigree View. 16 Displaying a Person’s Children and Descendants on the Pedigree View. 17 Closing Generations on the Pedigree View. 18 Moving the Pedigree View Horizontally and Vertically. 18 Moving a Person to the Main Position of the Fan Chart or Pedigree View. 19 Displaying Correct Spouses and Parents on the Pedigree View. 19 Resizing the Pedigree View. 20 Navigating the Fan Chart View. 21 Returning to a Previously Viewed Person. 23 Temple-Related Features. 23 Temple Link on FamilySearch.org. 23 Temple Icons on Family Tree. 24 Temple Information on the Summary Card. 25 Temple Information on the Details Page. 26 Chapter 3: Seeing Details about People. 29 Viewing an Ancestor’s Photos and Stories in Family Tree. 29 Viewing a Person’s Family Members on the Details Page. 30 FamilySearch Family Tree (18 October 2013) iii Viewing a Couple’s Relationship Information, Including Marriage and Divorce Information. 32 Viewing Child-Parent Relationships . 33 Viewing Sources. 36 Seeing Contributor Information. 37 Seeing Information about Living Relatives. 38 Information That You Can See from LDS Church Membership Records about Living Individuals. 38 How Family Tree Displays Living People. 39 Rules Used to Determine If a Person May Still Be Living. 39 Chapter 4: Adding and Correcting Information about People and Relationships. 41 Why Others Can Change Your Information and How to Prevent Improper Changes. 44 Reason Statements for Adding, Editing, and Deleting Information. 44 Restricted Records. 45 Building Your Tree. 45 Starting with a Blank Family Tree. 45 Adding a New Person to Your Existing Tree. 46 Finding a Person Who Is Already in the Tree and Linking Him or Her into Your Family Line. 49 Entering Standardized Dates and Places. 50 Entering Characters from the World’s Languages. 51 Searching for Records from a Person’s Details Page. 52 Correcting, Adding to, and Deleting Information about People Who Are Already in Family Tree. 53 Correcting Information about a Person. 53 Changing a Person’s Living or Deceased Status. 54 Correcting Church Membership Records of Living People . 56 Adding More Information about a Person Who Is Already in Family Tree. 57 Adding a Custom Event or Fact to a Person. 58 Types of Information That You Can Add about a Person. 60 Deleting Information about a Person. 62 Correcting, Adding to, and Deleting Relationship Information. 63 Relationships. 63 Adding, Editing, and Deleting a Couple’s Marriage Information, Including Divorce Information. 64 Adding, Changing, and Deleting Relationship Types between Parents and Children. 68 Removing a Person from a Family (Deleting Relationships). 70 iv FamilySearch Family Tree (18 October 2013) Replacing a Wrong Parent in a Family with the Correct One. 72 Adding Reason Statements to People and Relationships. 74 Deleting a Person from the System. 75 Restoring a Deleted Person. 76 Seeing the Change History and Undoing Changes. 77 Seeing and Undoing the Changes Made to a Person or Relationship. 77 Filtering a Person’s Change History. 79 Correcting Information Moved from new.FamilySearch.org to Family Tree. 80 Recommendations for Correcting Names Moved from new.FamilySearch.org. 80 Recommendations for Correcting Events and Other Information Moved from new.FamilySearch.org. 81 Recommendations for Correcting Relationships Moved from new.FamilySearch.org. 82 Uploading GEDCOM Files and Copying the Information to Family Tree . 83 Part 1. Upload Your GEDCOM File, and Compare It to Family Tree. 83 Part 2. View the Results. 85 Part 3. Review People Who Are Potential Matches. 86 Part 4. Review People Who Can Be Added to Family Tree. 88 Part 5. Review People Who Are Already in Family Tree. 90 Transferring Information between Family Tree and a Personal Genealogical Database. 92 Contacting FamilySearch Support with Questions about Temple Ordinances. 92 Sealing-Only Relationships. 93 Chapter 5: Adding Photos and Stories to Your Ancestors in Family Tree. 95 Guidelines for Using Photos and Stories. 96 Using Photos. 97 Adding a Photo Using Family Tree. 97 Changing a Preferred Portrait . 97 Attaching an Uploaded Photo to a Person in Family Tree. 98 Tagging a Photo. 99 Resizing and Repositioning Tags. ..