Fixing Relationships in FamilySearch (FS) Family Tree

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Guide to Fixing Relationships in FamilySearch(FS) Family Tree. This Help guide contains written STEPS interspersed with PICTURES that show How to Correct Family Relationships in Family Tree. The handout presents different kinds of mixed-up family situations in a prepared fictitious database called the Simple Sandbox (Instructor Materials) and guides you through how to correct them. The Instructor Materials - Simple Sandbox offers a safe place to practice fixing relationships in a family without making changes to your ancestors in Family Tree.

STEPS Handout with Pictures
This Help Guide/Handout (4 p.) can be used by a single individual, in a one-on-one mentoring setting or in a class session. It is designed to provide hands-on practice in performing the titled task by following written STEPS with associated PICTURES.



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Use of Instructor Materials - Simple Sandbox

 * The Instructor Materials - Simple Sandbox is a fake database featuring Robert and Ann, members of their family, and other individuals. This database contains incorrect relationships. All of this is intended to provide a safe place to practice more complicated tasks in Family Tree, such as finding and merging duplicates and fixing incorrect relationships.
 * The first time you go into the Simple Sandbox (Instructor Materials), click on Simple Sandbox First Account. You will be asked to sign-in with your Family Tree username and password. It will take a few minutes to generate your account.
 * To avoid difficulty with the sandbox, no more than five persons should click to make an account at one time.Wait a few minutes for the next group to create their accounts.
 * Every time after the first. click on Simple Sandbox Reset Your Account. You will be given a new fake database. The given names that appear in each family are the same as before (Robert, Ann, Rachel, etc.) But the surnames, dates and places are different.
 * Activities done in the Simple Sandbox can be done repeatedly and do not affect your ancestors' information in FT.
 * Before any changes are made in the Sandbox, it is assumed that the correct relationships in Robert and Ann's family have been established through careful research.

Note: When fixing relationships in the real Family Tree database, thorough research should always precede and determine what changes are made to your families.

Fixing Relationships in FT Exercise
This simplified Fixing Relationships Exercise sheet is for use in practicing the removal and replacement of relationships(5) found in the fake database called the Simple Sandbox (Instructor Materials). It goes through the same five procedures performed in the handout above, only some details and pictures are omitted. To repeat these exercises in Robert and Ann's family, click on Simple Sandbox RESET YOUR ACCOUNT.



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Other FT Entry/Intermediate Task Handouts (STEPS with Pictures)
1. Putting Photos and Documents as Memories in FamilySearch Family Tree 2. Attaching FamilySearch (FS) Records to Family Tree Using the Source Linker 3. Putting Documents as Sources in FamilySearch Family Tree