Sources are historical materials that provide evidence that your family history is accurate. When you add sources, they can help users work together, add richness to Family Tree, help users evaluate conflicting information, and acknowledge work done by others.

Our collaboration with commercial family history websites provides you with access to more records and tools.

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Our genealogy industry allies can help with family history and genealogy research. Members of the Church can sign up for free accounts on Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast, American Ancestors, Geneanet, Filae, and Storied.

In order to protect privacy, Family Tree limits who can see information about living people.

Children between the ages of 8 and 12 can create a free FamilySearch account with parental permission.

Learn about the different features available on the home page once you sign in to FamilySearch.

In 2016, our systems added a question mark to the name field of any person whose full name was left blank.

Under certain conditions, you can delete a person's profile from Family Tree.

To dismiss record hints, click "Not a Match" beneath the record information.