Quickly Do Genealogy Research on FamilySearch Mobile App

Learn how to use the FamilySearch App to quickly do genealogy research on your Apple or Android mobile devices. The family tree mobile app from FamilySearch helps you genealogy when you're short on time or away from your computer. Use this free genealogy app to research your family tree quickly.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction
00:34 Ancestors With Tasks
04:25 Review Hints on FamilySearch Mobile
08:13 Compare Records on the Go
09:28 Moving Information Between Records
09:56 Attach Records to Other Relatives
10:58 Other Tips for Researching on the Go

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[sion-dafyddlocke]

I came across this looking for a little more info on Familysearch's AI/RL capabilities, but there's a lot that you're talking about that from a technology and group sourced perspective I would not recommend. What you're describing is essentially traditional I.A.1. genealogy done on a cell instead of a typewriter, which works perfectly fine for Gedcom programs, but Familysearch is about the furthest thing from a Gedcom you can get. At it's core, it's basically a smart sorting program that takes data points or clusters and arranges them into profiles. That profile a) acts completely different than a Gedcom and b) is capable of mapping complex, conditional relationships in a dynamic, true to reality way in 4 dimensional spacetime by use of date tagging and geotagging and by only allowing data to exist in one place/profile. Tagging, aka standardizing, is really what supercharges the search engine, which is an AI, hence why this is soo much more powerful than a Gedcom, but also where I suspect reinforcement learning kicks in, meaning that tagging anything, even if it's a glaringly obvious mistake, helps the AI understand the relationship between data points and in turn, is more likely to pop up as a hint or duplicate for the profile it actually belongs to. If you're the type to say, "I don't want to use the AI, " 100% fine, but it's integrated into every search on Familysearch; use a standalone Gedcom or a library. It's like driving a self-driving car on the interstate, manually going 10 mph. You will eventually get there, but people will be passing you constantly, i.e. updating data, and the car itself will be constantly trying to get you to speed up, i.e. constant flood of hints. I'm not trying to discourage anyone, but simple fact is is that the way Familysearch is built might seem counterintuitive to someone doing traditional genealogy, but it makes perfect sense from a data science lens.

Now you also touched on reason statements, which good idea, but writing longer arguments in that box is a horrible idea. That box is designed to be erased and updated constantly with every comment appearing in the change log and I don't believe there's a way to restore that comment. If you just keep adding onto existing comments, the log lists the entire comment, rendering the change log overly redundant. Also, if someone detaches the source you reference in say, the birthdate that you updated separately from attaching the source, that kind of statement could potentially become nonsensical. Ultimately, there is no 100% safe place to make arguments that someone else can't get into, but if you want to keep a individual log of your contributions and arguments, the collaborate tab will let you write a running commentary, and it is far less likely to be erased or edited.

[rosannelytle]

Thank you for showing a reason statement, I found it helpful. FYI: don't forget the 1890 Veterans Schedule. It won't help with Delbert but it could help with Joshua and Samuel.

[sclindah]

Great tips. I've been playing with this as well and this helps.

[mammathorne]

When I look at the hints and I go to add it to my tree the slaves in the census family search wants to know a relationship to the head of house hold but there's no slave option? What do I do.

[donaldlindgren]

FamilySearch just changed how incorporating record hints and merges are handled on the website. It appears that reason statements are required to complete a merge.