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.
Note : For more information on Memories, see Goal 2; for more information on tasks for research, see Goal 4.
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