How to Use Tree Connect
To Add Documents to Your
Family Search Family Tree
To Add Documents to Your
Family Search Family Tree
1. Before you begin using Tree Connect make sure you are using the Chrome browser which works the best or the browser where you have installed the bookmarklet for Tree Connect.
2. Go to familysearch.org. Click on Family Tree. Look at the pedigree view of your family. Look for the ID # of the person for whom you would like to add a sourced record that you did not find in the Family Search record collection. Write the number down. Now close family search.
3. Go to ancestry.com or finadagrave.com or anyplace you are looking for a record. Go to a document you want to connect to your person in Family Search/Family Tree. (Note: Arkiv Digital does not work for Swedish Records with Tree Connect. Wade explains this is because the site is basically an app. Ancestry does have Swedish records in their international record collection, however, and Tree Connect works beautifully there.)
2. Go to familysearch.org. Click on Family Tree. Look at the pedigree view of your family. Look for the ID # of the person for whom you would like to add a sourced record that you did not find in the Family Search record collection. Write the number down. Now close family search.
3. Go to ancestry.com or finadagrave.com or anyplace you are looking for a record. Go to a document you want to connect to your person in Family Search/Family Tree. (Note: Arkiv Digital does not work for Swedish Records with Tree Connect. Wade explains this is because the site is basically an app. Ancestry does have Swedish records in their international record collection, however, and Tree Connect works beautifully there.)
4. For this exercise let's use ancestry.com. Open a record for your person and then Highlight and Copy the digitized record. Do not paste it anywhere yet.
5. Now click on the Tree Connect bookmarklet that you have installed on the Bookmark Toolbar. This reminds me of lowering the drawbridge between Ancestry and Family Search/Family Tree.
6. A screen will come up that looks like this:
6. A screen will come up that looks like this:
7. You should see notes in the notes box #3. This is what you copied at the beginning of the process: the digitized version of the record. If it shows here it will also show up in Family Tree after you attached your source to your person in the Tree. If it is not there you can paste it later in the box provided for notes in Family Tree. (I like to add my person's name after the Title for easier recognition in your main source box in Family Search) You can also do it later in the process #17 if you forget.
8. Remember when you are done reviewing the record...Click on Save!
9. A window will then open that will have you search for your person in Family Search Family Tree. Rather than use the name search, search by ID number. Add the ID# your wrote down in the last box on this form.
10. Leave the rest of the boxes blank. Click on the Search button.
11. Next you will see....Is this your person? If yes, click the person name (Hot Link) to open.
12. Then click on attach.
13. Add the reason you are attaching it in the box provided. Example. Record establishes birth and death places and dates. Not because this is my grandmother.
12. Then click on attach.
13. Add the reason you are attaching it in the box provided. Example. Record establishes birth and death places and dates. Not because this is my grandmother.
14. You are now in Family Tree and have left Tree Connect.
15. Select "view in person (summary) card."
15. Select "view in person (summary) card."
16. Click on sources. Open and view the details of your newly added source.
17. Click edit in that box under the title of the source. Add the person's name after the source in the title box if you didn't do it earlier. Example: 1930 US Census-Josephine Reese.
18. From the edit link also scroll down and paste in your digitized copy of the record that you copied at the beginning if it is not already there. You may also enter any other research notes you wish to keep or share. In the notes box, up to 15,000 words can be added if you have extensive research notes you wish to share for clarification.
19. When you have completed this go up under the title of the document again. Click on Tag. A drop down menu will appear. Click on the information contained in the source in the appropriate boxes.
18. From the edit link also scroll down and paste in your digitized copy of the record that you copied at the beginning if it is not already there. You may also enter any other research notes you wish to keep or share. In the notes box, up to 15,000 words can be added if you have extensive research notes you wish to share for clarification.
19. When you have completed this go up under the title of the document again. Click on Tag. A drop down menu will appear. Click on the information contained in the source in the appropriate boxes.
20. Save and Close Notes.
21. Last thing...go up to the left hand corner of the page and click on Previous page. Check your source and make sure it is the way you want. it. Done!
Additional information: If you have a public or private tree on Ancestry with a lot of records attached, you just hit the jackpot. I'll walk you through that scenario.
Find your person on your Ancestry tree for whom you want to attach a record to Family Search/Family Tree.
Find your person on your Ancestry tree for whom you want to attach a record to Family Search/Family Tree.
Click on your person's profile and then on sources and see a list of all the documents you have attached to that person on your Ancestry family tree.
Select and open one. From here just follow the steps above starting with step #3...highlight and copy the digitized version. Do each step in the process through #21.
This seems like a long process but once you have done it a few times it is very fast. It will only take you about two minutes.
The nice thing about Tree Connect is it's the bridge for making the perfect source and citation for the record. Then you can quickly add it to your person on the Family Tree by following the simple steps above. Enjoy! They've bridge the gap between tedious and fun!
This seems like a long process but once you have done it a few times it is very fast. It will only take you about two minutes.
The nice thing about Tree Connect is it's the bridge for making the perfect source and citation for the record. Then you can quickly add it to your person on the Family Tree by following the simple steps above. Enjoy! They've bridge the gap between tedious and fun!
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