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Family FoundThis is an amazing way to learn about your ancestors and yourself. The first time I used the tree maker I was able to see my family history and find people that I never knew about. Pioneers,leaders, and other family members who were able to make a difference to the people around them. It has given me inspiration and pride for all the family that has gone before me. My husband and I are working together on our family history and he has shown me how to look for information. The tools provided by Family tree are easy to use and research is becoming easier. My dad did family history and back then it was a lot more difficult. He left me a treasure trove of information and family pictures that I have been blessed to have! They make it so much easier to connect with my family stories! It’s great to see the faces and see the pictures of their lives. The LDS is an excellent source for information. I have been so impressed how they have tried to keep records for future generations. Hopefully someday my grandchildren will be interested in the family history and work we have done with Family Search will be of benefit for them. I have gotten a lot of joy from learning about my family history and still have a long way to go. What an adventure it will be!.QueenBlynneVersion: 3.10.0

RelationshipIs there any way that you can make it possible to Copy the relationship on anyone you find that is related . In relationship can you make the font larger so you can read the relation to me up top it would make it easier on the iPhone! Why is it that my famous relatives are only posted for a short period of time?? Will AI be used soon on helping Researching one’s family and relatives with the latest in technology? Why is it you can only add so many researchers contacts to chat to?? When you find relatives records abroad why can’t they be read as you can with records from the States?? Why can you only see up to the 13th Great Grandparents?? What’s involved in taking your family history and genealogy and relatives and pictures and records and published in a hard back book and if you need so many what is the cost per book and do you put the book together as a completed products? Just curious some time in the future I would be interested in having so many published as heirlooms for my family?? Will you be able to colorize and repair old black and white pictures in the near future by familysearch?? Thank you for taking my questions in consideration in order to enhance familysearch asap!! Yours truly, Hugh Fawcett..LkyspgotVersion: 4.7.8

Improve! Improve! Improve!The app is great but it could be even better. There are few records of my family so I have to add everything myself. This is not a problem but there are a few problems that can improve the app. 1. I would really like to keep my family tree so no one can see it and I really want to have complete access to everything including changing the status of a deceased person to living. Well if it’s my family tree then I have the right to do whatever I want with it. 2. There are many information you can add to a person. This part includes many useless things but not the most useful thing, Cause of Death. I really wanted to add the cause of death of my ancestors but I was forced to add a note and then write the cause of death there. I would really appreciate it if you add this option to “Add Information”. You can also add an option to add diseases so we can tract genetic diseases through our ancestors. 3. Enable an option where you can add a sibling with an unknown parent. So for example, I know my 2nd great grandmother’s sister but not the name of my 3rd great grandfather or 3rd great grandmother so I’m unable to add any siblings to my 2nd great grandmother..DFS2004Version: 3.9.12

Attempting to establish accurate Davidic lineageI am personally attempting to establish an accurate lineage dating back to Jesus, or to establish my lineage back to the Royal line of David. The information my family has kept and the knowledge that we do definitely descend from European royalty for many generations up until circa 1450 on my grandmothers side, and the definitive knowledge of my descent from the St John family, as well as descending from Frank royalty leads me to believe that the possibility of establishing the lineage accurately and with confirmation using written accounts of royal and noble lineage of Europe; I am hoping to be able to establish a legitimate lineage using this app. Any genealogist who might be interested in helping would be greatly appreciated. My family has been well respected for many many generations dating back to the times when we shared the privilege of once being of royal descent. Also English royal family members were all known to have had webbed toes; which I also have. My mother said it’s a trait from when we were one English royalty. The signs point to legitimate descent! Shall we establish a legitimate lineage back to Jesus??!.SonofMan91Version: 4.3.0

Mrs. ShatarrecaI completed several ordinances at the Atlanta Temple Thursday March 2023. I started with the names I only needed one thing completed on. I then went to the names that needed several Ordinances done. I started with the Baptism and Confirmations, moved on to Initiatories and for all that’s not completed I still need to complete Endowments. I did pass it and completed Sealing to parents and or Spouses. In all I did several Ordinances for my maiden name ancestors. I started with a couple of names I had asked my mom for because she love genealogy and I have completed three that’s now listed. I have several more to come that I found on my own. It had my maiden name listed as well as my old address but they’re just not listed as completed as of yet. I asked my coordinator during my Initiatory should I have my names reprinted because I’d updated my name and address. She told me no, I was happy about that because I didn’t want the Temple to use more paper if they didn’t have to. I’m excited and humbled by doing what I did. I’m extremely grateful and thankful I had the opportunity to do what I did yesterday..Cola127Version: 4.6.5

The reason ‘apps’ exist is for this collaborative effort to connect everyoneAll of my other apps are attempts at getting things done or finding distractions from getting things done - and this is the one thing that matters to ‘get done’: the linking of the whole human family in a way that helps us change from fear and worry to love and compassion when we understand our wholeness (and cast off the illusion of our separateness). The app is THE place to save preserve memories that matter. It is THE place to be social and share meaningful memories. It is THE place to ponder/meditate/pray/think/rest and prepare for all of the interactions we are meant to have IRL. So yeah, this app, without ads/subscriptions has levels without end (generations in all directions to explore) and consistent ‘newness’ and unique experiences. It is easy to participate (all other wikis are practice for this ultimate wiki), allows for changes/updates, and there are many levels of people willing to help you learn. Find what you are looking for, even if you don’t known what you are looking for, with the Family Tree App by FamilySearch..Jensenej1Version: 4.5.7

Personal Ancestral File - FAMILY TREEI’ve been using Family Tree for many years, it’s the only system I’ve ever used, wouldn’t use any other. Especially loves the NOTES section where there’s enough room to write a book on someone, that’s appreciated. Now Family Tree is online where I can enter, correct or adjust data on my family. I descended from Stonington and Belfast, Maine. My father passed away at 33 years old, I was only 14 which is where I acquired my interest in my family. At 35, my daughter Jayme Lynn Nickerson was 7 years old when she was struck and died by a man driving his girlfriend’s uninsured pickup truck 39 years ago June 20, 1985 so Family Tree has put them and the rest of my family on the map for “Whom It May Concern” which is what I’ve titled my work after Daphne Aurora Tower, my grandmothers youngest sister who called her work the same, for the generations to come. My father is Lester Arnold Nickerson, my mother is Pauline Lillian FiField which is not her last named as she never really found out who her father was. Thank you Family Tree for BEING THERE..Mom and DonVersion: 4.9.1

Holly R. Olmstead review of family SearchI started doing my family Geneology due to Covid. I got diagnosed with Castlemans disease and had to stay away from people, due to no immune disorder. My parents never talked about their family either. So these are my reasons I started this journey. I have never felt so proud of my family lineage like I do now!.. it makes me feel complete. I had relatives on the mayflower, several Presidents like George Washington links us to the royals , our blood line to President John Adams links us to the mayflower and many other historical events . I found my paternal grandmother was a American Native Indian and her real name from her tribe. I’m struggling with my mums side Idiaquez side , due to translations Spanish to English. I found my Aunt Anita’s son who was adopted into the Adams family and we are now talking on FB . I was told of him when my Aunt was diagnosed with cancer , so in away he was always with family. My journey will not be complete till I finish my mums side though which I know I will get their eventually..Olmstead familyVersion: 4.5.7

Impressive archiveI have been collecting family tree information since 1974 but for past 20 years had taken a break and the past month refocused on completing and publishing family tree. During my hiatus the Internet happened and Family Tree leverages the new technology. After 15 minutes on the site was astonished by how comprehensive, accurate and complete the archive was. In fact on one side of family went back one generation further than I had completed. I am excited and looking forward to posting pictures of family members generation back that have been entrusted to me by my grandparents and parents. This is the archive I want to invest time to update for future generations. I have a wealth of information to share, that includes pictures, stories and historical information for my ancestors. I have invested Hundreds of hours and many trips around the USA compiling, picture taking and documenting my family’s history. Hoping the archive allows for including some additional family details..Don from Las VegasVersion: 3.9.2

My AncestersI appreciate all the work that is done in connection with Family Tree. I love my ancestors and all they did in their lives that brought me to the place I am today. I love that much work was done on my lines that gave me the knowledge and joy it brought me when I joined the Church at 17. I didn’t know that my Great Great Grandparentseri Stephen and Hannah Markham were early members joining in 1834 and 1836. Hannah and my Great Grandfather David Markham, 18 years old at the time in the early 1850’s, left Utah for Northern California to join Hannah and Stephen’s older son’s Warren (Catherine Ann Jones) and William Whiting, never married. David married Emeline Conrad and raised a family , including my Grandfather, David Andrew (Alice Parks). He became Chief of Police of Willows, CA. In 1940 he was shot and killed in the line of duty. My Father Edgar Hanford Markham Sr. Met and married my mother Elberta Charlotte Abel in Willows when my mother came there to work. My father was elected Mayor of Davis in his middle 60’s. After Hannah and David came to California the Church faded from their lives..E Jo LongVersion: 3.9.10

WowSo I always thought that did not really have any family . My father was not around , so Recently I was curious if he had passed so I googled his name . His name was not anywhere but another name popped up . My dads brother . He had died one week earlier and I found an obituary with photo. From there an explosion of relatives..Incredible just incredible… According to this site/app I can trace my family to 5 members on the mayflower , and It shows that i have some extremely famous relatives (I won’t brag) lol…. And the very best thing is the photos . There is a pic of my great great great great grandmother and I thought it was a picture of my mother . Incredible ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️My husband and brother think that this is a scam due to the famous relatives pages . I want to print up photos and stories , people ect and have it all together for future generations of my family . One day I’ll be the past and a I’ll be a 17th great grandmother or something. I love this app and site . Thank u so much.Love it $$$$Version: 4.6.7

Love it but there are some flawsThe app works well and I love the updates. However, there is a big flaw in the system. I’ve started seeing names in my close family tree, families I’ve been researching closely and know well, reserved by distant relatives and then shared with the temple. By distant I mean go back 11-15 generations and then come down a different line, then go over to a spouse and go up the spouses family tree. There are people that distantly related somehow reserving names on my direct lines making it more difficult for me to do the work. There should be a simple way for me to go to the temple and ask to do those family names. The temple should be able to pull my family names from their “temple system”. I still think it odd that someone so distantly related is working on a branch they aren’t really related to but at least it wouldn’t hinder closer family members from doing their work. This even happened with a family member’s great grandfather and they haven’t been able to do his work yet..Ilovemy4Version: 3.8.4

Very convenientI love the app. So much easier than in the old days of looking endlessly at microfiche or books at the country Courthouse, or even the first online stuff which was still searching the books only in the convenience of your home. Now it almost comes to you.(IF it is correct) you are relying on other people doing there work correctly, and many do not. I have found errors. So check out the information. Sometimes there are two families living a few blocks from each other (with the same name or similar names of mother and father- some families had the habit of giving all boys the same first name and different middle names or all got the same middle name. If they married girls with similar names.) that are getting put into one family. I have also had aunts and uncles of mine being listed as deceased on these records. When in the newspaper obituary they are listed as siblings of someone else that has passed away..Drbunot takenVersion: 4.6.5

My quick lookThe pedigree page locks up on 5th or 6th generation and won’t go further. Started after last Roots Tech. I’m still reeling from the changes made on so many lines. I’m not writing to say all are wrong, but I’m wasting so much time fixing wrong branches added into my line. Changes should be made only with permission. Thank you. I know this must be so difficult. So sorry. Susan Lazenby Please thank past & present service workers! It’s so great to suddenly see so many names. I will be sending all I’ve done to the temple and family members because I can’t walk. I check everyday and it seems miracles are happening on the other side of the veil. I also found new places my ancestors resided. How odd that my grand daughter who’s half Tongan and today I can tell her I have my dark skin and almond eyes are from her remote island in the So. Pacific. With great admiration-please pass this thank you note to all Susan Kay Lazenby (Los Angeles Temple District).Tezra2Version: 4.9.1

ConfusionI have enjoyed FamilySearch for many years. However; after a second husband was added to my great grandmother’s biography, my own great grandfather’s information was cast into oblivion. Even though I choose my ancestor as the preferred spouse, the results I get when searching my family tree are for the second husband and have no relationship to my own history. Also, recently I have noticed numerous instances where a subject or his father is listed as his own spouse or child. Information that I entered, with documentation, has some times been altered by a non-related contributor. For instance, I know when my father died. I was there. Perhaps our freedom to edit biographies has gone too far and needs to be left to responsible professionals. FamilySearch has provided me and many others with countless pages of family history but, I can no longer trust that it is valid. What a shame..Truly 1 AmericanVersion: 4.4.4

This app will improve your present and future.This is one of the only apps I’ve ever used that I can say has improved the quality of my life. Not only that, but it will improve the quality of every generation going forward. Instead of wasting my time on social media etc… I spend some of my free time writing stories from my kids lives to put into their individual profile on this app… and recording memories and saving pictures as well from my life and my kids lives. I also am able to record memories of my parents and grandparents as well as read stories and memories and view pictures that others have posted… in order to help me to learn more about where I came from. Makes life a lot less lonely, and a lot more like a team effort where I know there are others pulling for me and rooting for my families success behind the scenes on the other side..OthernicknamesalreadytakenVersion: 4.1.3

I recommend this to everyoneIn short, if you’re looking for an app to make a family tree, this is it. It’s easy to operate (for old and young), completely free, and tends to fill in gaps for you with minimal effort on your part. I recommend it to everyone. I’m definitely on the younger side of this app’s user base; I first downloaded it when I was fourteen and am about to turn nineteen. Most everyone on this app is people my grandparents’ age, but that’s kind of the appeal of it. I’ve run into distant relatives that I wouldn’t have expected to even know how to operate a computer on this app. It’s nice to have a tiny digital connection with someone you might never meet otherwise. The way this app operates is incredibly easy if you need it to be and very complicated if you want it to be. In some ways, it’s grown with me. I built my original family tree at fourteen by asking my remaining grandparents for their parents’ names and birthdays. Now, I’m working on solving my great great grandmother’s parentage, one of the few blank spots left after my tree connected with others. Less importantly, I love the feature that allows you to find out if you’re related to a specific person. It’s weird, but if you ask a friend for a deceased blood relative, you can find out if you’re at all related. My friend and I found out that we were 32nd cousins!.Ihatewattpad😡😡😡😡Version: 4.7.7

Great App. Could use a little refinement.The app is a fantastic database for having to keep track of so many family records. There’s some minor things that would be great if they could be improved. - Ancestor pictures: Seems like you should be able to click/tap on their picture to see an enlarged picture, but instead when you tap on their picture it takes you to the option to edit or replace their picture. I don’t want to edit, I just want to see a bigger picture of what they looked like - Homeland discovery: I thought the homeland discovery feature was a little glitchy. It was a little difficult to pan and zoom around the map. I was using an iPhone 7 Plus. Maybe it’s smoother on other devices. This feature has a lot of potential innovation for future versions. It would be could to integrate it with google/apple maps virtual mode to see what the streets look/looked like. It would be cool to see virtually what their headstones look like. Just some thoughts..TegT13Version: 3.7.1

I love this app!I have used this app to research my entire family and a number of friends. I have found birth and death records, copies of personal letters and wills, land deeds, land grants for military service, and, oh, the history I have learned. It’s fascinating to read about your ancestry and realize they actually fought in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Indian Wars, the Civil War (fighting on both sides of the war); even draft records for WWI AND WWII. Or, that your ancestors lived in Europe during the Black Death, when hundreds of thousand of people died. Or that some ancestors were members of the Order of the Knights of the Fellow-Poor Soldiers of Solomon, known as the Knights Templar! I have ancestors from Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark , Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Doesn’t that make you think! I have actually made contact with a number of people that actually shares my DNA; cousins 1, 2, 3, even 5 times removed. What a trip! I LOVE THIS APP!.MswolffanVersion: 3.1.12

Needs improvementI’ve been using this app for a while. I like it but it needs to improve certain features. It can be a little confused, you can add the info from the doc you found and add it to the tree, but you can not modify the basic info once you add the info from the doc. Sometimes you found multiple sources but most of them have different info (name) and cannot be modify. In order to see and modify the name you have to create manually the person and after that add the source. The tree doesn’t show the whole family, in order to see (my nephews) or my uncles I have to keep open the tree in that level, but I won’t be able to see the whole relationship. It cannot be download or print. I find kind of difficult to share with my family members to allow them to add info in the family tree. Also some doc cannot be modify but there is not an option to report or request the modification..Moneyman144Version: 3.10.0

Love Family Search butHave enjoyed using the web version for years and have had very few problems. I now find the app for my IPhone very convenient; however, navigating from tree to records search and attaching source records has been challenging! I like saving the source indexes in my my own folders and then attaching them once I'm confident they are truly a match; however, very often I'm not able to find my way back to them. Also, after a historical record search it's easy to mistakenly use the upper left back arrow and often hard to find the "back to results" arrow that sometimes appears in the lower left of the screen of the opened record screen. So I end up having to do the search completely over. I will be calling for help this week and expect I receive the same patient and thoughtful assistance as I have many times in the past..LazyoldhagVersion: 3.9.3

Our RelativesI love the fan charts. My husband is a great great grandson of a LDS prophet Lorenzo Snow. It was fun to go back way, way back on that noble line! So far back- well— It is great to read the interesting things that were written about him and the occurrences happening around him. My ancestors - some of them, knew him and some of his, and they interacted with each other. I like to have the pictures of all of our ancestors as much as I can see. We will all be dead and gone one day and it will be interesting to know that we will be ( I need to put my information in) somewhat remembered too! I enjoyed the famous ones that I am related to, distantly. It’s interesting what the computer can do! However, God is no respecter of persons- we are all His children! Past, present and future! We are all important and have our time and place under the sun!.Snowswirl 88Version: 4.1.1

Great appI highly recommend this app. I have been using FamilySearch for a little over two years, and it's helped me trace my ancestry back over 2400 years. It is easy enough for a middle schooler to work- and I would know, being one! The best feature is the "find match", which allows you to enter the names and birth/death dates and places of deceased relatives and looks for names others have entered that look similar. This helps hugely if a distant relative has also been 'genealogizing' and puts their work on your screen. 80% of the time I've spent on FamilySearch Tree has been reading family history that distant relatives entered that I never knew I had! I experienced some issues when I tried to enter names of relatives in manually while in landscape mode, but after shifting it to Pedigree and entering them there everything worked fine. I love this app!.ScholarKidVersion: 3.1.2

All the Way BackI've so enjoyed learning about my ancestors through Family Search, and I sincerely thank all those who have done the research to make that possible. Here is the most remarkable aspect of my family tree mapping: I traced my lineage all the way back to Adam and Eve. Mostly I followed my maternal lines. Sometimes I'd hit a dead end and have to backtrack and proceed with a different line. Finding William the Conqueror, kings and queens, and Biblical people like Methuselah in my ancestral line was an extraordinary discovery, but nothing topped the astonishment I felt when "Eve" and "Adam" appeared. I thank the other contributors who have added photographs especially. I now know what my second cousin twice removed looked like, as well as my circuit-riding Baptist preacher great grandfather. Personal history and world history have melded..BlzonwryVersion: 4.9.6

We know so much about our family now!Family Search has made such a wonderful difference to our family. Before discovering it and learning about where we came from, we had no idea who we were! Now we know about the Cherokee in our family who fled to Wisconsin and created a village, we know about the Revolutionary War soldiers and the French-Indian War soldier and even a soldier in King Philip’s War. I even found ship records, letting me know when our Russians came to America and on which exact ship! The app works great; it is often being improved. My only Request: I like to leave tasks to other relatives as it’s fun to do, and also it takes much time to go through the tasks, so would like if I could also view the task list for my exact line (grandparents, not one mixed with siblings of grandparents)..DreamwordsVersion: 3.6.9

GenealogyI just love searching genealogy, I am 83 so know I make mistakes, mostly when I work on it so long I get rummy. My husbands family are not the same faith and hadn’t had an interest in genealogy, but for some reason when his grandmother was I’ll she handed me a ledger with her brothers and sisters in, I had 9 children and hadn’t started working on genealogy, after kids were grown I began, I now have many of his lines 14 generations. I also work on my line, I have one of my daughters that has the bug for researching and one sister that is really into genealogy. Your program is awesome. What more can I say my p blessing said I would do genealogy and it’s my favorite pastime and I love putting families together, one of my sons has even taken an interest, your program just keeps getting easier to use. Love love it.Skinny mini fishtaleVersion: 4.7.7

So intuitive!I love this app. I've found so many ancestors and have discovered so much personal information about their lives. I've come to know my ancestors through this app. I love how it sends me hints and newly discovered ancestors in my tree without asking. This app keeps me on my toes always reminding me and pulling me back into my family tree through emails and reminders! Temple ordinances are so simple to prepare now because you can simply bring your phone with the barcode from the app and the temple will print your cards when you arrive. I've developed a new love of family history because of this app and a feel the spirit of Elijah in my life daily because of what this app does! So grateful for The Church of Jesus Christ and the advancements it's making in the field of geneology! It's amazing. No app is perfect so hence four stars! But it's getting there!.ForeverfamgirlVersion: 3.5.3

Great Way to learn about your FamilyI’ve been researching family history a long time and have used the a Familysearch site for many years. The app continues to improve I can do nearly everything from the app that I can do from the site on a laptop or desktop computer and in today’s mobile device driven market that’s amazing. Family history often requires mobility to visit locations for information not found in the amazing vaults of Familysearch, bringing your research with you on a small portable device, and having the ability to add to my research, by uploading photos or documents I find and add them to my ancestors is fantastic and this app instantly allows me to share any and all finds with other interested people. Plus great features to entertain even the reluctant family history learner..TeachmySPVersion: 3.8.3

Like this app a lot, but it could be improvedGreat for quickly viewing messages from other researchers without having to wait until I get home and boot up the full website. Also comes in handy for checking details when I’m at the library or courthouse with the hard copies and ancient micro-media (yup, we still need to use those from time to time, don’t we). One problem I have found is an inability to see a person’s children when the parent has had more than one spouse. Although clicking on one of the spouses will normally provide a list of the children by that spouse, in the case of a divorce where BOTH spouses have married again, the tree comes to a complete dead end because you can’t see any of the children of either spouse. It would also be nice to have the option to switch to a descendancy view from time to time, but I can live without that..Grla_99Version: 3.1.11

Improved location specificityThank you for the improved specificity regarding search by location, which I noticed after the latest update. My 3G grandparents, born in the 1820’s, always listed their birthplace as Württemberg, (Kingdom of Württemberg), which became a Bundesland of Germany when that country unified in the late 19th century, and _eventually_ was merged with Baden, to create the Bundesland of Baden-Württemburg. Previously, I had only been able to search for them in Europe under this most recent “state” name, which made my search area only half as specific as it could have been - frustrating, as I knew for sure that the area of Baden could be eliminated, but there was no way to do so. Their name was not uncommon, so the prospect of being able to narrow the search area down by half is very welcome!.Hiiiiii hiiiiiiii hiiiiiVersion: 3.9.1

The BEST most ACCURATE genealogical app!This is the BEST most ACCURATE app I have found for my genealogical research. My husband & I are 8th cousins via European ( primarily Saxe-Cohberg- descendants of Leopold King of Belgians, father of Prince Albert younger brother of Queen Victoria ) Tudors, ;Henry 7th) Plantagenets, (Stewart ( 3rd Earl of Lennox) etc Our DNA tests & The information obtained via thus user friendly app match up perfectly, migration patterns Etc & The data base is the most comprehensive app available! If your serious about wanting to know you’re family history this is an essential tool & so much fun as a hobby! They have features like “view this “ & “relatives around you” and you can see also how connections are made around you with others & also famous people in history. For example I’m 4rth cousins with President George Washington☺️.KittywaymoVersion: 4.4.3

Mr Larry FisherAncestry keeps me going at 83. My only faults are the media gallery is useless as it need to be able to alphabetize photos by family name first and not take out of area you are in to god knows where. I correct a photo in sort A to z and when I am done it takes it somewhere else instead of allowing me to put entire family together in alphabetical order. I find many that are almost in alphabetical order (most that I did) but they are scattered in other groupings. I want and everyone I speak to want the whole media to be it in one group with all alphabetized except for unidentified at the end and when they are fixed they are put up above in order. It is simple programming to fix it. If you fix above item I will die happy.Paison430Version: 4.8.9

Better with TimeI remember when Family Tree began many years ago. Decades ago I had to write to countless government departments all over the world in order to obtain records of may ancestors. It was expensive and seemingly took forever. Not many people did family history then. They didn’t have the patience. When Family Search began it was a Godsend. It wasn’t perfect, but it continually got better as kinks were worked out. Still today new advances and features are being introduced. My accomplishments through Family Search have kept my family even closer as with each visit there’s always lots of questions and discussions. Thanks to all that have been involved in creating Family Search and all the improvements..Buzz PatriotVersion: 4.5.7

Crazy how fast you can learn your ancestryMy parents and family spent decades doing genealogy, it used to take a lot more time and dedication. This app has helped bring genealogy into the 21st century and made learning personal ancestry an easily accessible, fun thing to do. We were never sure what became of one of my great-uncles (I thought he died young) and now I know everything, thanks to military service records and census records. I feel like it’s really honoring him that we’ve got his story straight. We’ve also been able to actually confirm stories our grandmother told us about life in their small town and we’ve been able to piece it all together, especially through historical phone books available online. I was always told that my greatgrandfather was a blacksmith so seeing his name and occupation in the phone book in the 1930s is incredible. I never even knew that existed. You can really just jump on in, whichever branch of the family needs work done, find out your history, get ready for temple work, attach suggested documents, it’s truly amazing. I’ve updated my review to five stars, my last review I gave three stars because the app kept crashing. That’s been fixed and I really appreciate it..Nick name taken by meVersion: 3.1.8

Absolutely Amazing!I really enjoy this app. It makes it easy and fun to find your ancestors or other family history. I enjoy ancestry in general but I go to ask my family members about things so I knew it was correct. You can collaborate with others on your family tree and even see your relationships to people up to 15 generations back! I do have some little things like I would love too see if I have an ancestor for both my parents. There have been multiple instances where I have seen the same person within the ancestry on either both sides of my great grandparents, grandparents, or parents. While it is distant it would still be cool to see how the common ancestry came about. Other than that I highly recommend this app!.Firebreather25Version: 4.6.2

Family Search Allows Me to Leave Photos and Stories for my Childrens ChildrenI love learning the names of my ancestors and I love that anyone can post their pictures and stories to family search because that means all the cousins are sharing. I especially love the fact that it allows a safe place for me to put my most prized pictures and priceless stories of my family that I have gathered from parents grandparents and great grandparents. Luckily I had most of my information in family search when my external hard drive crashed and I lost my other source. But I feel like family search is a place that my children can go to locate this information anywhere anytime. Thank you so much for this heaven sent miracle..The big grandmaVersion: 4.4.4

Helped track my historyI assumed that the task of finding my grandpa’s mother was going to be one of endless record finding and cross examination, due to only knowing that she was Portuguese and what her favorite thing to yell at other drivers during moments of frustration. I signed up with this website and downloaded the app and in a matter of a few hours, would have been faster but I believe there was a slight hiccup with the way they pulled up birth records, I not only found my great grandmother but also my great grandfather and their entire ancestral background! I can’t wait to go down the rabbit hole that is my family. Incredible site, incredible app, I’d recommend it to anyone wanting to see where they come from..Hams_HotDamnsVersion: 4.6.10

Love this appI’m so thankful for this app and especially that it’s free! I love that they’ve shortened the time that you can reserve a name for temple work. That’s been super helpful when trying to get temple work done. Two things that would make family tree better are 1) if there were more steps/pauses to encourage people to first look up the deceased person they’re trying to add to the system, before they create them. I am constantly merging duplicates because people keep creating accounts that already exist. It’s extremely frustrating especially when all their temple work is already completed. And 2) if there were a way to connect the living to each other. I think it’d be super cool and useful if we were able to connect living family members to our tree and vice versa..Apina7Version: 4.5.7

Wonderfully Useful!I love that it is searching for documents concerning my ancestors all the time and suggesting them. Then in those moments of free time when I may have previously spent minutes scanning Facebook or Instagram, I can now be attaching documents to my ancestors and search for other documents to better compile my family’s genealogy; our family history! Being able to see the memories and photographs that others have shared is great too! It’s allowed me to see photos of my grandmother as a youth, something I hadn’t seen before. There’s a new function under the settings menu called “Map My Ancestors” which creates a map of your ancestors’ life events. Who needs 23andMe or other DNA testing, right? Well, it’s not quite the same, but this is free!.TimberprintsVersion: 3.1.3

Their are Angel's in our FamilyThis app is incredible in that I can now do virtually everything from my I-phone. From digitizing documentation in my possession to share with others to searching for ancestors and records, merging duplications, attaching sources and documentation, photos, stories and other information. This app has allowed me to connect with family i didn't know existed. Most important, this app has allowed me the privilege of getting to know my family and ancestors and develop a deep connection and love for them as I learn of and share in their joys and and struggles in this life. Whenever I feel alone, sad or depressed I can just open my family search app and I can feel my family cheering for me and encouraging me to keep going and never give up..MishieBadgerVersion: 3.1.10

Innovative App with Enduring Impact!Family Search is revolutionary in terms of its extraordinary reach! The technology available to help users connect with family in meaningful ways is exemplary! I just completed temple work for my 3rd cousin [6] times removed. It represents the first time I was able to do work for my ancestors! Coming from a multigenerational LDS family, most of the temple work had been completed. I thought I would never know the feeling of taking my deceased ancestors to The House of the Lord! I now know that feeling and I have the innovators of Family Search to thank for it! Thank you for your persistent effort to connect families in deeply meaningful ways! You have my enduring gratitude!.Following From VIrginiaVersion: 4.6.13

Very useful!!At first I was skeptical that this app would have any accurate information, but after using for a few months I have been able to track my tree all the way back to the 1500’s. Sometimes it takes typing a name a handful of different ways, or searching multiple dead relatives to find a lead. I had to really search for a well documented relative first, but once I found them it was amazing how much information there is on my family in this app. It is neat that family members who have more knowledge about your family history may be adding to your tree as you speak. It is also cool that you can add your own knowledge and make connections that you know about, most times to people who are already documented but may not have been physically connected to your tree yet. There are attached documents to many of the family members in the tree that show how they tie into the family. You can also add people that you know exist in your tree even if they are not documented in the app, and others who look up your tree will be able to see those added as well. It is honestly a brilliant networking app for tracing your family tree..PeorvtvtpVersion: 4.5.7

I love this app but!I love this app including the website,I had wrote a review not long ago,sometimes my reviews don’t pop up not sure why,or it just takes long to pop up on any app in Apple Store? Anyways it’s great for finding relations,I’ve been using other websites to connect the pieces,it might not be 100% I have even used Realtive Finder & it tells me the opposite,there was this Famous Person who said to be my 13th Cousin 1xtimes removed,while on here it saids they’re my 10th Cousin 1xRemoved,I’m wondering if that’s because the first one was made & deleted somehow or it’s a duplicate? I think they’re more likely to be my 10th Cousin 1xtimes removed on here then,your sister site,RealtiveFinder,I’m not sure & not sure how they got from that to this on the app & website. Other than that,I’m extremely unhappy that I cannot block someone from my family who is extremely bugging me to much,I want to say maybe because there’s bugs here & maybe on the website to but either way,it’s quite annoying & frustrating,I can’t handle being bugged often & assumed for just not contributing,I have my own problems & they’re not listening to a Word I’ve said so far!.Roses$ForDaysVersion: 4.6.2

Best app for family searchI love this App. I can connect (with mutual permission) with family I have never met. As we all do our research our tree grows together. Thank you for this..Brianmenzies1Version: 3.8.2

WorkabilityI had booked an appointment at the temple and had a certain name, my mothers great aunt, that I wanted to take to the temple. My plan was to go home from work, change, grab my temple bag with that name and go to my appointment. I got tied up at work and had just enough time to drive across town straight to the temple and skip going home. The temple workers were gracious about me wearing dress pants, but I was disappointed that I wouldn’t be able to do my mother‘s great aunt’s work, until I remembered this app. I pulled it up, clicked on Temple, chose my ordinance and was able to pull up a QR code for my mother‘s great aunt. The temple office printed it off and I did the ordinance. I was quite struck with how the Lord and the church have made doing God’s work workable in an unworkable world. truly miraculous!.Bit strip Momma BVersion: 4.5.7

One Gigantic FamilyI’m so pleased with the wonderful resources available for research and the ordinance ready program. Although there can be mistakes made by various contributors I think the positives outweigh any negatives. More and more is being added daily. There are little miracles happening all the time!.SylclarkeVersion: 4.4.5

Connecting with God and loved onesThis app has helped me to better connect with my family. I now see my ancestors as real people and not just names and dates. I feel like I have an army of family protecting me and that is here for me. It makes taking names to the temple so easy and accessible with ordinances ready. I love the memories feature because I’m a big visual person and picture documents are huge when it comes to learning about who someone was and the life they lived. Service is so easy to do on this app; in so many different ways. 11/10, would recommend!.Esie ScottVersion: 5.0.1

The Beat Genealogy Site EverI came here a number of years ago because I got sick and tired of paying Ancestry and others to access family history information that I personally had entered, that they commercialized and then so graciously offered to sell back to me..Ally bubbaVersion: 3.9.22

How do you add a divorceMy mum and dad never got married + my grandma and grandpa divorced is there a possible divorce/breakup option gng 😭🙏.FranzgrindsetVersion: 5.0.7

Family connectionFamily Search is the best program in the whole world to find our ancestors and connect them to our family tree.DpxrhrVersion: 5.0.0

Interesting!Great app! I am learning so much about who my ancestors were!.GlenysB NLVersion: 4.9.5

BonjourJ’aime beaucoup cette application,.CarolleDVersion: 4.9.4

I’m amazedI discovered I’m a descendant of rolo the Viking king. I discovered so much about my history. One thing I would like is more war records as I originally got the app to look up my grandfathers ww2 records. He never talked about his service and I would like to find out more about him..DevinnnkVersion: 4.9.1

Pros and ConsApp is good, but many users don’t know how to use it, so expect to have to untangle your family tree. Down side, app lags, is often very slow to switch from one screen to another, and crashes frequently. Also a few other things could be updated to make it more user friendly, such as collapsible data sections that block the page and prevent you from seeing a list of potential matches, blocking progress. I’m guessing paid sites are better, but this is a good start..Miriam MalkaVersion: 4.9.4

Thank You Thank You Thank YouWhat a Wonderful Work & a Wonder! Thank You Family Search! Thank You FS Workers, Volunteers, Administrators, et al! Thank You Contributors! Thanks Lord! EZedE..EZedE 45Version: 4.9.0

FS upgrades-A non-stop erosion of our petty excuses From finding our deadLately Almost Every time I get on to the Familysearch site I discover more user-friendly aids that keep stripping away any last vestiges of excuse to not have such addictive fun at seeking out our dead!! ! Wow, all this! Wow, all this worldwide indexing! Wow, all this worldwide indexing and the Family Search amazing way of! Wow, all this worldwide indexing and the Family Search amazing way of conveying it to us active! Wow, all this worldwide indexing and the Family Search amazing way of conveying it to us active researchers! Wow, all this worldwide indexing and the Family Search amazing way of conveying it to us. Active researchers is ensuring that I live in the temple.! Wow, all this worldwide indexing and the Family Search amazing way of conveying it to us. Active researchers is ensuring that I live in the temple multiple times in the week.! Wow, all this worldwide indexing and the Family Search amazing way of conveying it to us. Active researchers is ensuring that I live in the temple multiple times in the week to get all this work done before the millennium.! Wow, all this worldwide indexing and the Family Search amazing way of conveying it to us. Active researchers is ensuring that I live in the temple multiple times in the week to get all this work done before the millennium.! Wow, all this worldwide indexing and the Family Search amazing way of conveying it to us active researchers is ensuring that I live in the temple multiple times in the week to get all this work done before the millennium. Maybe with all our efforts by the time the millennium comes we can have a bit of a holiday while everybody else is working their tails off is working their tails off! is working their tails off! Bring your socks is working their tails off! Pull up your socks!.Gett realVersion: 4.9.0

Great family information!Interesting to find new family members.CuggaConVersion: 4.9.0

ShelleyI love reading all the information you have on file about my ancestors! I try to imagine what life must have been for them. Having been born in Canada I didn’t realize how many American relatives I had. Thank you for all the work you do!.W1nn8rVersion: 4.9.0

Free is goodEnjoying it. Ancestry.com looked great until they wanted money… This is well done and there is lots to do and match ..TheHulk78Version: 4.8.7

Love this app!!!!So user friendly and so much information! So cool to have found an app that helps me with sources! And ! I have not EVER been lucky enough to find information on burials in Italy! Germany! Spain! Argentina! Wow!!!! Love this app!.MercbundVersion: 4.8.7

An excellent app!!!I quite enjoy the additional activities and the growing community supported by this app. It is an excellent way to show interest in where you came from. For family history researchers, big and small, young and old, new or experienced, I strongly suggest this useful app. On the other side, I would suggest making the additional activities more noticeable, as younger researchers or casual users will normally take interest in these activities first. Again, DOWNLOAD THIS APP if you would like to keep track of your family tree, or learn more about your family..PromoteGoodVersion: 4.8.5

DelightedAbsolutely delighted with making all these connections with cousins on Family Search through Roots Tech 2024…great job everyone ! Back to twelve generations on some lines AND full names and dates and stories! Love it!.MicsandmacsVersion: 4.8.5

Living relativesI have Roots Magic for living relatives. Do you still recommend that we do not enter their names on FSEARCH? Can we have my children access my memories?.RickMardonneVersion: 4.7.8

It used to be awesomeBut it’s stopped working. It either stays frozen or forever spinning its wheels..LadyWritesVersion: 4.8.4

Arbre généalogiqueVotre travail est fascinant!!! Merci!!!.Cheveux rouxVersion: 4.7.7

Amazing AppIf you’re an expert or a novice at Family History, or simply desire to find out more about where you came from this is the app for you..BrandedCoffeeLoverVersion: 4.7.5

Very good, just needs more records from the CaribbeanThis has helped me trace several of my ancestors back to the 1830s. A feat I never thought possible. My only wish is that they work with local record keepers in the Caribbean to get more census, birth, marriage and death certificates digitized to help us find our relations..Anonymous IncorporatedVersion: 4.7.7

ServiceI love the fact we can chat with cousins that we never knew of I so appreciate this !!! Carolyn Mytrunec.Windflower61Version: 4.7.5

Family treeIt never ceases to amaze me with its capabilities and online training videos from many different sources and individuals.BricaultVersion: 4.7.5

Awesome app!If you’re looking forward to work on your genealogy this is the right app and path!.JaredtheexplorerVersion: 4.7.5

Like the information, dislike being deleted from the listI love using this resource, but just logged in for the first time in a while and discovered I had been removed from all my family. This was distressing, though I have family members who were able to reconnect me with the necessary information. I also learned that others have been similarly disconnected from their families. Is it a glitch? It’s unpleasant, but my only complaint about this app..Jesse.A.FVersion: 4.7.4

My Family TreeI’m very excited to add considerable family information but unsure how to begin. Any pointers? Thanks, David Ing.Chilly1944DDayVersion: 4.7.3

Family SearchVery helpful!.SusanDT123Version: 4.7.3

Best family searching app ever!!This is the best app ever, like all the others COMBINED (Ancestry, MyHeritige, Findmypast, ETC. But FREE for EVERYTHING Thank you so much to whoever made this app! You helped my find ancestors I didn’t know I had!!!.H3nxy76Version: 4.7.1

Love this appI use this app a lot especially to learn about my family..JackieChan79Version: 4.7.0

Árbol genealógicoUn sobrino me compartió este app y desde ese día no he parado de averiguar acerca de mis antepasados, lo fantástico es cómo está relacionado con millones de personas y con documentos antiguos. He podido ver partidas de bautismo de mis abuelos y de mis padres, un descubrimiento fantástico!!!.ItucasVersion: 4.7.0

Happy CamperBest free money I’ve ever spent. Love the site. Love the app with just the family tree. Learned so much about my family.MidgeeBootsVersion: 4.7.0

Awesome experience!I can’t believe how much is available through this app for FREE! What a treat. I’m completely hooked and am learning so much about my family in multiple directions. I highly recommend this app!.Cathy MacMillanVersion: 4.6.10

AwesomeThanks.Rip388Version: 4.6.7

Family History rules.I love how you can do your own family history and find links to other people’s family..NorthernboarderVersion: 4.6.6

Family TreeI really enjoy Family Tree! How they have been able to track my family history back hundreds of years! I wish they had a complete printable fan chart that would make it perfect!.Sir BeamoVersion: 4.6.7

Family search appExcellent app and easy to use!!!!! Love it.Pipp2194Version: 4.6.5

Roots tech cousinsAmazing how it can sort Per relatives to find family.Elliott LoverVersion: 4.6.5

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FamilySearch Tree Negative Reviews

Don’t trust the treesFamilySearch is great for finding sources on your ancestors. Its the best thing about it outside of being free. I encourage you to use it for that purpose when compiling your family tree. Just don’t trust the family trees, which are a mix of fact and fiction. Anyone can edit trees- this includes both people who have the actual correct information as well as those that that don’t- and don’t know the difference. There are also those that have their heart set on being related or descended from someone and will deliberately fudge the tree to make it happen. Go back far enough and you’ll find you’re descended from myths (like King Arthur), people we know were childless (like Jesus Christ), and famous ancient writers like Sophocles and Homer. I had an ancestor who was living in England. Next thing I know their father is from Poland and his brother just happens to be the most famous Jewish Rabbi of Poland. There are parts of my tree that I have done tremendous amounts of research on, using baptismal, marriage, and death records and censuses of the area, making a solid case. Overnight the whole thing is upended by some guy in South America who is operating on hearsay. I don’t use the trees. I don’t trust them, save as suggestions as to where to look. But I use the sources and I compile my tree somewhere else..KansasCatholicVersion: 4.8.8

Mary Ethel (Smith) SurteesTo darn many people writing and adding what they think are facts which are not. Like “Mary Ethel (Born Smith)” they said she died in Senior Bexar Texas.” My aunt Mary Ethel (Born Surtees) her daughter told my in 1983, that Her father came home from San Antonio (which is Agee miles north east of Senior) and told the family at home near Senior. Her brother Harold (the oldest at the time) ran from the house and went to his grand mother who lived the next farm south of the Surtees farm thru the fence to Smith road where she lived. Her cried hard, he wanted comforted from grand ma Smith. Where do these people get off making up these things. I graduated from Brigham Young University in 1992 at which time I had a professor in genealogy whose name was Stevenson that had the bookstore right down off of the campus told us one day that he spent his Easter vacation redoing President George Washington’s temple work I don’t know how that could be possible but he said he found an air in his birth place it was a different county that had been done before. He should’ve known better but he just wanted to redo somebody famous a redo somebody’s temple work that’s already been done as far as I’m concerned they sit in the temple redoing peoples temple work because a day is wrong my place is not exactly the way they think it should be and they absolutely waste their time doing that when they could be doing it for people who need it done..LrsurteesVersion: 3.21.0

Difficult to use, lack of information.After using ancestry over a three month period, with only three names, I was able to search and find relatives back to 300AD. I find family search very difficult to use and after three days of adding relatives and searching for already known others to continue filling my tree, I’m finding NO information- on people I already know. I rather feel as if I’m filling your base and that feels fairly sketchy to me as I know the LDS reasoning and disagree fully with it... I came to learn more, and mainly because I found a “book” of my relatives on your site that I had to join to view and now I can’t access it or locate it, and I’m not sure how to flip through a 300 page book, one page at a time or if I can add it or buy it? This has so far been a useless process and waste of time for me… However my adopted mother put in three of her known relatives and your base had information back to 500 AD on her screen in five minutes. That’s quite sketchy to me if you are aligned with other sources..Diufhysdvefjfk KBVersion: 5.0.2

Irresponsible and offensiveSomeone erased my mother and substituted my widower and deceased dad’s second wife as my mother. It was shocking to me, and painful to me. I called Customer Service, and was told that the app had some problems (they were very vague about these “problems,”). They then started to explain how to fix it. I told the “Sister” that the application needed to be fixed. She completely ignored me, but was angry because I “wasn’t listening” to HER. I asked to talk with supervisor. She refused to do so, saying, “they will just tell you the same thing.” I told her that I wanted to hear them say it to me then. I eventually asked for the name and number of General Counsel. She refused. Then she hung up. This entire program needs to be reexamined. Additionally, when someone has more than one marriage in their life, then there is an option to call one of the spouses as the “Preferred Spouse.” Really? They can’t love everyone they married? One spouse is PREFFERED over others? By whom? Do we put preferential words in my dead Dad’s mouth??? I feel a lawsuit coming on….Truly PeevedVersion: 5.0.0

Marriage Certificates are Major Issue of bad connectionsIn the rush to move tech advances, you have a failed algorithm that makes suggestions for in laws based solely on first names. This epic failure of no rules and exceptions presents everything from deceased children to siblings as in laws. Furthermore, there’s no way to dismiss the suggestion, so one click combines them to multiple people causing improper marriages and children connections. I’m sure this was to avoid the duplicate record issue which is so prevalent in your system. But a correct duplicate is a far better issue than incorrect connections that people are accidentally making on your bugged suggested system. Major programming failure here.... how many thousands of incorrect connections are in your system now? For a people so”into” record keeping, this makes no sense. Tune or turn off suggestions on in laws, or create a dismiss option to clear the bad suggestions. One accidental click creates two connections that are dead wrong. It must really eff with your temple work eh?.Mormon maxVersion: 3.21.0

ConcernsI like family search especially the things that I can put on. The thing I do not Like are the people who do not even know close family members to me can go in and change The data I have entered from personal sources that are reliable. These are often people I have never heard of and I have no way to get a hold of them to tell them that their information is incorrect . If I find them I just block them so that they can’t see what I do however they still change the records. And when I have asked the family history Library about this they have told me that I just needed to be kind and patient. It is hard to be patient when you are the one who has kept family history for years to have a stranger go in and base their records on the census and scrap the whole family. Yet nothing seems to be able to be done to stop these trolls. Sorry I think you could protect those of us who do a better job and make them check closer records.Okieanniebuffalo1948Version: 3.3.4

Desperately needs data quality controlI spent many hours researching and building this database, but I can’t continue in good conscience. Unfortunately there are some really bad automatic algorithms that run and create innumerable duplicate records. Even worse, there are thousands of people with no training or scruples who plow through the database on any given day. They get overzealous and start making tons of changes they shouldn’t. There is no recourse if one of these hapless characters bumbles through your records and scrambles hours of your work. I’ve worked for 12 years at a world class data company housing scientific information, and we would never allow total amateurs to wreak havoc on our data, especially the data that was curated by experts. New analysts receive extensive training because good data requires it. It’s so frustrating because I love doing family history. I just can’t justify spending the time in the current environment..MaxForemost138954Version: 4.8.9

HorribleIt is the 21st century, 2020 and it will not let you use same sex couples. Shameful.🥀❤️😭Version: 3.9.2

Can’t look without an accountThis app will make you sign up for an account before you find what ur looking for and It WONT let me make a stupid account.ScotchtownVersion: 4.1.1

Can’t see informationI’ve been trying to see results of my famous relatives for the last week and the pages will not open..Manang70Version: 4.9.5

Bad branchesToo difficult to remove incorrect brances.Incorrect branchesVersion: 4.9.0

UselessUseless.FxlootVersion: 4.8.4

HORRIBLE APPThis app is absolutely useless, it gives you NO information, doesn’t let you search for the information by filters.NOT-IMPRESSED _13Version: 4.8.3

Not very intuitiveDefinitely harder to use the app than the website Can’t find everything I created recently. Nothing my daughter created is connecting.Rockerdad.Version: 4.8.0

Needs workNot intuitive, buggy & hard to use.San diego sun 3476Version: 4.8.0

Sign inSign in failure and fix.Infuriated grannyVersion: 4.7.8

FeedbackI am finding it hard to navigate and edit..BobE1942Version: 4.7.4

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