Lessons that provide opportunities for quick and simple learning of FamilySearch.

The Notes tool in Family Tree allows you to record information that does not fit the standard fields on a person page. Add notes to share questions, insights, warnings, and research notes about your ancestors. Use alert notes to notify other users to read the notes before changing information in Family Tree.

To change the starting person, go to your account Settings, click Account, and look under Family Tree Preferences.

You can follow people in FamilySearch and track the changes to a person's information.

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

Both Family Tree and personal genealogy software have benefits. You may even want to use both.

In Family Tree, the new person page contains a person's profile information. Use these tips to make your adjustment as smooth as possible.

You can correct a person's listed sex in Family Tree. The options are male, female, and unspecified.

How you record enslaved persons in Family Tree depends on how what you know about them from your family's history and from historical records, such as estate registers.

A person's profile page in Family Tree features several sections of information about the person.