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Recently, I noticed an increasing amount of false / misleading information on AI about members in my family tree. I remembered seeing that this company was mentioned as being a source of some of the information.
I contacted the company and asked about the way I had been treated in the past and about the false information online.
They implied that I was a liar.
Apparently, anyone can access any of their family trees and put whatever they want to about people that they do not know.
How can you build a family tree when anyone can add misinformation to it or change it?
This morning I received an email from them that I believe I was never meant to see.
It seems to me that it was an email that was supposed to be sent internally.
One quote from this internal email: "It may not help to speak with her, but it may be worth a try."
They stated that I am argumentative, but all that I want is the truth to be told about my family members on line.
A few months ago, I stopped using their service because of errors on their part that they still deny,
I also did not appreciate all of the spam that I got after I stopped using their service.
I would not recommend this company to anyone that wants to make a family tree that is truthful as Family search admits that their information is not necessarily true.

Todo seria perfecto si no desaparecieran continuamente fotos y recuerdos. Tienes que estar continúamente dicieéndoles en mensajes que te desaparecen fotos de tus recuerdos y no hacen nada

I raised a legitimate privacy concern as a European user with a marginalized background and their support team was extremely unhelpful and dismissive, treating me like I was stupid when they fail to inform users that your tree is not private and that deleting a tree does not actually erase your contributions to the site. This is ridiculous as many large genealogy sites allow you to create a private tree so it isn't an unreasonable expectation. While it is great that they make so many records available for free, their support team do not care if you have legitimate privacy concerns so be careful when choosing your username if you don't want to be personally identified by family members you don't want contacting you or knowing what you're doing online. Deleting a tree does not actually delete anything and this is not made clear during the deletion process. Their support team could have simply advised I delete my account and respected my rights as a European resident, but instead chose to give me a rude and condescending response. Highly do not recommend.

Es hat sich gelohnt, sich hier zu registrieren- Unterstützung bei dem bei Familysearch hochgeladenen Stammbaum so wie schnelle und ausführliche Hilfe bei Fragen.

Constantly have to go back and correct your tree because people who don't know how to research or don't even bother to do any sort of research not even bothering to match dates, name, family, ect. Continuously merging or deleting people and everything else makes a mess out of your tree. You can't lock it and can't do anything about it except for correct it every time don't waste your time and energy.

it used to be good. Now, when l ask about my family, they give me different names from other countries and no the country that l requested. It is a mess.

I found many useful records on FamilySearch, but some of them later disappeared from the platform and are no longer available.

FamilySearch has a shared Family Tree with over a billion people in it. Many of the reviews are from people expecting to have their own, private tree, and are annoyed when someone messes up their data. The shared tree's goal is to identify as many people as possible who have lived, and how they are related. On almost every other site, you spend most of your time either re-discovering what others have already found, or copying from their trees. This feels cleaner, because you have one, consistent view of your data (whether or not it is actually right). But if you look at all the conclusions in all the trees at other sites, there is at least as much total error, plus massive duplication.

For me, the great thing about FamilySearch is that I can "pick up where others left off," and I can get new work done "once and for all", so that everyone benefits from my work.

I do believe there is room for improvement on how easy it is to correct the mistakes of others. And there should be more guidance to prevent users from making mistakes in the tree in the first place. But I love that I don't have to start from scratch in this combined tree.

Zum Test habe ich mich selber genommen, 1967 geboren, bin aber vor über 100 Jahren gestorben....
Bei einem Namen der so oft vorkommt wie Peter Meier mal gerade 3 Ergebnisse bei den Namen, alle anderen Namen waren nichtmal ähnlich....

Awful site, the search engine is useless, ask specific questions but give you everything except what you ask for. Waste of time

Please do NOT use this site. I went on here to search my grandmother who passed away in 2024 and they have my name misspelled, me listed as a man (I am a woman and have always been one by the way), and also have it listed that my husband is my grandmother's grandson. How in the world are people allowed to edit data about someone's family that isn't accurately verified? My advice, stay away from this site and try to find information from close family members who can set you on the right path.

Very poor idea. the fact that you put your family tree on there, thinking it is YOUR OWN family tree,
then find out that anyone even remotely connected adds facts and people to it, with incorrect information quite often!
I got quite frustrated at having to alter facts and even delete wrongly-added people. having to check and re-check that no-one has tampered with my carefully researched tree.
I have stopped adding to it and have my own tree on the Reunion app. At least I know it's correct.

I have researched my family tree carefully, using only information I could verify the source for. I joined familysearch just out of interest, and to see if I had missed any connections. I have found it to be riddled with errors and incorrect information added with no source. Children I know died in infancy have spouses, random children are added born to women in their late 50s, people are linked to 2 sets of parents... at least in my family line it is a hopeless mess.

They write lies about surnames and names and spread misinformation on them. They refuse to amend the misinformation.

FamilySearch is free! It is very hard to find a quality service that you don't have to pay a lot of money for. I have been very pleased and impressed with the genealogical research tools that FamilySearch provides. I have been able to find deceased family members because of records. I've been able to add memories to my family members. I highly recommend using FamilySearch as a great tool to document your family history.

I downloaded this app to find out my DNA roots, as suggested in a video. After completing the registration and analysis process, the app asks me to pay to access the results. This is just a way to make money and does not provide anything free as promised. I definitely do not recommend it!

Many lineage paths went to Royalty all over Europe and beyond. One path took me to Adam and Eve and God. Adam ben Elohim 4004BC-3074BC ID: KG97-59V , Eve bat Elohim 4004BC-3311BC ID: LR35-F8Z. Longevity runs in my family as Adam lived to 930 years old. Eve only made to 693. On this site, God is listed as Deceased, ID: P3VG-GDH. I arrived there from my name, but then the computer could not remember how I got there. Seems a family member also buried Jesus. Joseph of Arrimathea 0041BC-0045 ID: LVSL-8YF. omg?!

I have had an account with Family Search for over 15 years, through this time I have had to contact them to find out how to change what has been changed. Then go and re-enter all information. This time I decided to try to connect with the people who kept changing it. I was written up for it. I was trying to communicate! So in the email I got I asked them how to erase or delete my part of the tree. What happened? They were so good before all of this! All I want is my information off. We will see what happens. I would hate to get a lawyer involved. But who knows.

Awful, I am a professional genealogist and have used FamilySearch as a side tool for around 7 years, It is a hotbed of fantasists and you will always be outnumbered by the ignorant, if you try and reach out and explain why any such person is incorrect you will be banned, presumedly because many of them are Mormons albeit clearly dumb and fantastical ones desperately trying to grasp at any hint of the old world.

The trouble is that I added my family back to the 11th century, 7 years of research, and they have locked and are now baptising my family back to the Domesday Book. There are nonsense branches made by delusional Americans that never existed but they still baptise them, non existent people.

This is not a place for anybody investigating the truth, if you enjoy copying and pasting off Geni or WikiTree 10 hours a day this is the perfect place, make yourself at home. If LDS is your cult I would find another, they baptise anybody even people that never existed.

In 20 years when P David Gardner and Kirk Goddard Larsson are gone it may be a better place, but until people like this are gone this place will always be a mess, both almost certainly LDS people.

They copy and paste errors for several hours a day without any independent research, they literally just spend hours a day copying and pasting the errors of others. It is impossible to work here in such circumstances. They probably sleep well at night thinking they have done the world a favour but everyday they make it more of a mess for any layman looking to find their true heritage. There is no beating ignorance, insanity will come long before any success.

Not user friendly, contains false information they refuse to fix, harasses you if you don't subscribe to their beliefs, and deletes true information if it's not what they want there. Total scam probably just so they can try to get your family into their cult.