1: Navigate
2: View Details
3: Children, Spouses
4: Find, Recents
5: Alternate Views
Show Me, Goal 1
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For FamilySearch users, navigating in FamilySearch Family Tree is essential to finding ancestors, interpreting their information, and adding records, data, and memories to their entries.
Note : You can view FamilySearch screens and The Family History Guide in side-by-side browser windows, instead of constantly switching between browser tabs. For instructions, click here. For help with an instruction, click a bold word in the step.
Goal 1 Quiz After studying the Choices in this Goal, take an interactive quiz.Note : If you do not have a free FamilySearch Account, go to www.familysearch.org, click Create Account (upper right in the FamilySearch screen) and follow the instructions. For more help with your FamilySearch account, refer to Goal 13: Account.
Note : If your family tree is empty or nearly empty, skip ahead to Choice F to begin filling it out.
Note : Only one expanded line is shown at a time for the same generation. When you click an additional Expand button in the same generation, the other expanded line is automatically contracted.
Note : Generally, you cannot view or search for data for living people outside your immediate family.
Close relatives to you who living can be viewed using the Private People tab. (You can also access Private People from the My Contributions page.)
Note : For more information on Memories, see Goal 2; for more information on tasks for research, see Goal 4.
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