Help with familysearch online tree

[old bones]

I am trying to help my brother with his tree which he has put on familysearch.  Basically he has an extra generation appearing, which if we could delete, he would have it right.  Another option would be to work backwards and delete the extra generation that way, but you dont seem to be able to do that.  An interesting complication is the extra generation has the sister of the bloke Thomas, down as marrying his wife Jane!  I am new to the site but I have got it correct on mine, but what appears on his is all wrong.  This is one huge headache, so if anyone has any expert advice, I would be very appreciative.

[martin hooper]

Hello


I'm not an expert on familysearch but are you aware that the tree on there is not your own tree but it is accessible to everybody and anybody? It's a single massive tree. As I understand it. Having said that I don't know why it should look different for you and your brother.

I expect someone who knows familysearch better than me will be along soon to help.

Martin

[LizzieW]

I don't have a tree on Familysearch but as I sometimes search for people I can't find on other sites, every now and again I get sent links to family trees that are on Familysearch.  I had 3 yesterday, 2 of men with the same name as my uncle but those men were from S.Africa and I'd never heard of the ancestors either, so obviously just someone the same name.  The third one had details of my uncle and his parents etc. but his date of birth was wrong.  He was born 1910, not 1911 as shown and was baptised in 1912 (along with my father and his twin sister who were born in 1912).  I don't know how people can get things so wrong, especially dates in fairly recent history when birth certificates and baptismal records are easily available. and others who copy will copy wrong information too.

[BumbleB]

I remember, some years ago now, when I was doing some research at a local LDS location, that someone was being helped to upload their family tree.  They were being supervised by a church member.  At one stage the tree owner made the comment "I'm not 100% sure I've got the right husband."  The response was "It doesn't matter."   

[Biggles50]

As you should gather from the responses, familysearch is not the best place for building a family tree.

I found my family tree there which was totally wrong.

Best advice is take out a subscription to Ancestry or Find My Past.

Then when the tree has been built as large and as detailed as required then buy software such as Roots Magic or Family Tree Maker then download all the tree and its media to a new project in the software.

[old bones]

Thanks everyone for your comments, and yes Biggles, he does have an ancestry tree, but I think he puts details on familysearch as they often link you to famous people which gives a bit of a buzz.  I will pass all this on to him.  Maybe eventually someone will come along who will change it all for him and he won't have to do a thing!

[garden genie]

But surely the whole point of the trees at Familysearch is that anyone can edit them? If you and your brother both have trees there then it is supposed to be easy for you to correct his. (without his permission) Then someone else can come along and combine them into one tree because they are obviously the same people. I don't know if it really is as easy as they make out, and for large trees I can see people not bothering, but you often hear of individuals being wrongly(or not) changed. So, for example LizzieW should be able to go to the tree with her uncle on it and correct the date of birth. But there will be nothing to stop someone else changing it back either if they don't agree with her reason for changing it.

[Biggles50]

Thanks everyone for your comments, and yes Biggles, he does have an ancestry tree, but I think he puts details on familysearch as they often link you to famous people which gives a bit of a buzz.  I will pass all this on to him.  Maybe eventually someone will come along who will change it all for him and he won't have to do a thing!

Yes, I got a link from me to The King.

No not Charles

The real King

Elvis

[Ronda231]

Thanks everyone for your comments, and yes Biggles, he does have an ancestry tree, but I think he puts details on familysearch as they often link you to famous people which gives a bit of a buzz.  I will pass all this on to him.  Maybe eventually someone will come along who will change it all for him and he won't have to do a thing!

Hi Old Bones, If you can give me the familysearch ID reference numbers for the offending people/generations I will have a look at it, tidy it up, and see if there are any obvious anomalies.

Basically Familysearch works with records/sources linked to people, and anyone with valid source material shouldn't be deleted, they can often be re-arranged - provided this doesn't contradict the source material.

Best Regards