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Norfolk Nan
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I know many here use FamilySearch so can I ask if it is beneficial to create a tree on the site? I don't know the site very well and tend not to create trees elsewhere but wonder if I'm missing a useful tool?

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You don't create a tree on FamilySearch - you add your stuff to "the World Tree". It's just one single tree, with the ultimate aim of one profile per person who ever lived (that's not suggesting anyone thinks that's possible, but it's the easiest way to say it).

If your relatives are already on, you link the rest of your stuff to them, correct the bits that are wrong and wonder how on earth other people got that into their heads. And then someone goes and alters your stuff because they trust Aunty Nelly's bits of paper.

So no, you're not missing anything by steering clear of the "family tree" element of FamilySearch.
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Oooh, put like that I don’t think so either :shock: Thanks Adrian!
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Whilst I don’t disagree with Adrian’s comments about the tree on Familysearch in general, I do find that the information in it can come in handy. Like any tree on-line, I always tread very carefully when using any information found there.

Only recently I found a branch of my tree in Tasmania, after one of mine was transported. This particular branch on Familysearch was well sourced, with lots of official images of births, marriages and deaths.

I doubt I would have found this information without Familysearch Tree to guide me!
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A point worth considering, thanks Mick.
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Mick Loney wrote: 05 Sep 2022, 06:58 Whilst I don’t disagree with Adrian’s comments about the tree on Familysearch in general, I do find that the information in it can come in handy. ...
I'd agree with you. I'll look anywhere for hints - Ancestry, FamilySearch, Google, etc. In fairness to myself, I was just trying to answer the specific question without expanding layer upon layer.

One argument that I've seen advanced for the use of FamilySearch FamilyTree is that it provides a means of preserving your data. Right now, if any of us shuffle off the proverbial mortal coil tonight, how much of our research will survive? I have just two lines documented in a Wordpress free-site. The idea would be that I load my data into FS FT. The issue there is that those waving Aunt Nelly's papers can alter my stuff.

However, the facility exists to somehow load a GEDCOM into the FamilySearch Genealogies site where it will remain untouched, in read-only mode - even you can't update it - but it can be seen via the Search / Genealogies option (that also gives a link to load it). But let me emphasise that's not a tree-building facility, it's an archival facility.
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Familysearch was one of the original sites where an individual could upload/create and online family tree. It is still possible to do this today rather than add to the Family Search Family Tree, look under Genealogies - https://www.familysearch.org/search/genealogies
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Thanks, Guy :D
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I'm thinking about visiting the nearest FH Centre to access more FamilySearch records - I've never been, has anyone here? Anything I should be aware of or ought to bear in mind?

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I would recommend you do so without worrying, each family history center is slightly different as each is funded by the LDS church members in that particular stake.
No matter which centers you visit they will help you with any questions you have, in the same way as a librarian will help you in any UK library.
It is against the LDS rules for then to try to proselytise see:-
https://tinyurl.com/3vycr2ry
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