In Family Tree, new landscape and portrait views are now the default. The landscape pedigree view displays the lineage horizontally. The portrait pedigree view displays it vertically. Your feedback is welcome.

How to create an instant family tree on the FamilySearch.org site.

In Family Tree, we recommend that you move some information from the life history to notes. Specifically, move all information that is not a life history to the notes. If you think that other users should read the information before making changes, move the content to an alert note.

How to change the order of sections on the details tab of a person page

How to change the layout settings and number of columns displayed on the details tab of a person page.

In Family Tree, you can edit a person's brief life history that has been written by a Family Tree user. You can also choose to replace the computer-generated life history shown on the About tab with the user-written history on the Details tab.

In Family Tree, a person's About tab may contain computer-generated life history. The information in this history comes from the person's Details tab. To correct a computer-generated life history, you simply correct the name, dates, places, and relationships on the person's Details tab.

In Family Tree, you can write a life history to summarize a person's life. The life history appears on the Details tab of the person page. When you write a life history, you can choose to have it appear on the About tab instead of the computer-generated history.

You can print person pages from Family Tree. You can choose what types of information to include on the printout.

You can follow profiles of living persons in Family Tree if you were the one who created the profile or if the person is in a family group tree that you can access.