FamilySearch Tree Overview
What is FamilySearch Tree? FamilySearch Family Tree is an app that allows users to discover and document their family history while preserving family memories. Users can browse their family branches, discover facts, documents, stories, photos, and recordings about their ancestors, and easily add new life details, photos, stories, and audio recordings for their relatives. The app works even without internet access and automatically syncs with FamilySearch.org, so users can pick up where they left off on any device. The app is always free and is the best way to find and share meaningful family stories.
Features
- Browse family branches and see portraits of relatives
- Discover facts, documents, stories, photos, and recordings about ancestors
- Easily add new life details, photos, stories, and audio recordings for relatives
- Take the family tree with you wherever you go, even without internet access
- Automatically syncs with FamilySearch.org
- Share family stories with children or on social media
- Use important moments of family history as teaching aids
- Always free to use
- Privacy policy available for more details on public availability of content for deceased individuals.
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Product Details and Description of
FamilySearch Family Tree makes it easy and convenient to discover and document your own branches of the world’s family tree while preserving family memories such as photos, written stories, and audio recordings. Connect with your ancestors as you discover the important events and stories of their lives. As your heart turns to them, begin to collect and add your own favorite family memories to the tree for others to enjoy for generations to come. Share your family legacy with others in person or through popular social networks. • Browse your family branches, and see portraits of relatives you’ve never seen before. • Discover facts, documents, stories, photos, and recordings about your ancestors. • Easily add new life details, photos, stories, and audio recordings for your relatives. • Take your family tree with you wherever you go—the app works even without Internet access. • The app automatically syncs with FamilySearch.org, so you can pick up where you left off on any device. Share family stories with your children at bedtime or in the car while traveling. Learn something new about your family origins while waiting in a line. Take the app to family gatherings, and capture stories you’ve never heard before. Ask your parents and grandparents to tell you about their lives and what they remember about their deceased relatives; then record their stories using the app. Use important moments of your history as teaching aids. Watch how stories of your ancestors’ hardships, endurance, and faith help you become a better person. FamilySearch Family Tree is always free. It’s the best way to find and share meaningful, heart-turning family stories that will make an impact on your life and the lives of your loved ones. NOTE: Content you provide for deceased individuals will be publicly available. See our privacy policy for more details.
Top Reviews
By mswolffan
I love this app!
I have used this app to research my entire family and a number of friends. I have found birth and death records, copies of personal letters and wills, land deeds, land grants for military service, and, oh, the history I have learned. It’s fascinating to read about your ancestry and realize they actually fought in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Indian Wars, the Civil War (fighting on both sides of the war); even draft records for WWI AND WWII. Or, that your ancestors lived in Europe during the Black Death, when hundreds of thousand of people died. Or that some ancestors were members of the Order of the Knights of the Fellow-Poor Soldiers of Solomon, known as the Knights Templar! I have ancestors from Ireland, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark , Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Doesn’t that make you think! I have actually made contact with a number of people that actually shares my DNA; cousins 1, 2, 3, even 5 times removed. What a trip! I LOVE THIS APP!
By ScholarKid
Great app
I highly recommend this app. I have been using FamilySearch for a little over two years, and it's helped me trace my ancestry back over 2400 years. It is easy enough for a middle schooler to work- and I would know, being one! The best feature is the "find match", which allows you to enter the names and birth/death dates and places of deceased relatives and looks for names others have entered that look similar. This helps hugely if a distant relative has also been 'genealogizing' and puts their work on your screen. 80% of the time I've spent on FamilySearch Tree has been reading family history that distant relatives entered that I never knew I had! I experienced some issues when I tried to enter names of relatives in manually while in landscape mode, but after shifting it to Pedigree and entering them there everything worked fine. I love this app!
By dreamwords
We know so much about our family now!
Family Search has made such a wonderful difference to our family. Before discovering it and learning about where we came from, we had no idea who we were! Now we know about the Cherokee in our family who fled to Wisconsin and created a village, we know about the Revolutionary War soldiers and the French-Indian War soldier and even a soldier in King Philip’s War. I even found ship records, letting me know when our Russians came to America and on which exact ship! The app works great; it is often being improved. My only Request: I like to leave tasks to other relatives as it’s fun to do, and also it takes much time to go through the tasks, so would like if I could also view the task list for my exact line (grandparents, not one mixed with siblings of grandparents).
