Changes in Family Tree Shed New Light on Your Ancestors’ Lives

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FamilySearch’s newly released update to the person pages in Family Tree will make learning about your ancestors easier than ever before. Streamlined menus mean using the person page is now faster and more intuitive. New ways to view your ancestors’ lives and information, including maps and time lines, will expand your understanding and enable you to identify and fill in missing information more quickly.

Here are some of the most exciting changes you’ll find on the Family Tree person pages:

Streamlining the Family Tree Person Pages

FamilySearch has updated this page to make it cleaner and easier to navigate. With the new updates, your relative’s information is also easier to edit!

There’s also an exciting new tool you can explore with this update! The Time Line tab introduces you to a completely new tool.

Time Lines and Maps: A New View of Your Ancestor’s Life

The time line displays all the major events in your ancestor’s life, allowing you to get an overview in just one glance. Click on the Show button to filter which events and relationships you would like to view. Icons, such as a baby for birth or rings for a wedding, identify what type of event it is.

You can also toggle the Map function inside the time line tab to view a map beside the information. Here, markers show you where these events in your ancestors’ lives took place.  Icons, such as a baby for birth or rings for a wedding, identify what type of event it is. If an event is a relationship that involves another relative in your family tree, that relative’s picture and information will show up as well!

Be sure to also take a moment and look over the options on the sidebar on the right side of the page. Some of these have been rearranged and reorganized so you can accomplish many of the most common Family Tree tasks much easier. For example, you can now merge ancestors by ID as well as edit labels from this right sidebar. There’s even a newly added Data Problems alert that will appear if there are possible problems with your ancestor’s information, such as possible duplicates.

With these new tools and improved organization, it won’t be long before you’re identifying a missing piece of information, following a record hint, or making new discoveries about your relatives and adding them to your tree.