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Family Group Trees: Early Access
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You can form your family group and create a shared tree with your living family.
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Welcome to Early Access



What You Should Know
  • This is an early release.
  • As you will use this feature, you are creating real groups and trees that you can keep.
  • This early release is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Expectations
  • Family Group Trees is still in development but includes most planned features.
  • Expect a few enhancements and minor issues.
  • Please provide feedback as we continue to improve the experience for all gruop members.
  • We anticipate a full release in summer 2024.

How to participate

As an administrator


  1. Choose a scope for your family group.
  2. Create a new group or add a tree to an existing group
  3. Build the Family Group Tree.
  4. Invite your group members to the group.
  5. Be your group's first line of support to get into the group and build the Family Group Tree.

Administrator instructions

As a group member


  1. Join the family group.
  2. Contribute to the Family Group Tree.
  3. Provide feedback to FamilySearch.

Group member instructions

What are Family Group Trees?

Family Group Trees help everyone find and gather ALL their family, living and deceased, together as a family, not just as individuals.
For the last decade, Family Tree has made it easy for you to share information about your deceased ancestors. Family Group Trees now let you share important family memories and information with close living family.

Connect your living family. Foster unity.
Gather your family into a group, and see the same pedigree. Involve your family in navigating their family history as a team. Enrich your history with photos, stories, and sources.

Share and protect.
Share memories and milestones while they are still fresh, and protect everyone’s online privacy.

Leave a legacy.
Ensure that future generations of your family can access this information to learn about your life.

How to give feedback

Join the Community

Join the FamilySearch community's group for Family Group Trees. There, you can discuss issues and post screenshots for other groups and the engineering team.

Feedback Button

A Feedback button is located on the right side of the group management and the left side of the pedigree pages.

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