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FS manipuliert Eingaben um Ihre Sektenmitglieder
die zum teil total dement sind und so auch die eingaben aussehn zu schützen.
dies ist bei den personen des franken reiches sehr deutlich ( Karl der Grosse) -
FS ist NICHT an einem correcten Stammbaum interresiert sondern nur an den Daten der benutzer

I used to like the site until they turned into liars and frauds. They sent an email to me on March 13, 2023 stating i was related to George Washington. The instruction was to click again to see how. It then said I was an eighth cousin once removed and provided my family tree as supporting evidence. I told my grandkids, who were naturally excited and wanted to tell their friends, but their mom suggesting holding off until further verification. I could not find any and a few days letter, followed up with Family Search and was told I was not related to George Washington at all. They had faked the name of an ancestor on the family tree it turns out. What was gained by them for such blatant lying, I have no idea. I will never trust them again for anything.

I've been trying to unsubscribe from the regular spam mailings from this company for weeks after making the mistake of expressing interest. Even logging into my account and explicitly cancelling there doesn't work and the spam keeps rolling in.

Awful, clunky, too many inaccuracies. No way to merge duplicate entries and maintain the different info garnered in both - you should be able to keep the different information like different name spellings as alternates within the same person’s records! And if one entry is only aware of one marriage and the other is aware of another, or one record knows about some children and the other record knows about others- or one record has more details about one area of the person’s life and the other profile covers details from another period of their life, it should be easy to combine the records - like with Ancestry. Familysearch is the worst genealogy site I’ve used. Just because it’s free doesn’t mean it’s good, or accurate.
There are going to be people I’m related to that I will never find becaof this issue - separate entries for the same oerson.

Also, familysearch doesn’t let you differentiate between known adoptions or step families. So it messes up any true chance at genealogical research.

I’ve used it for 2 days and it’s completely awful.

Plus, if you make a mistake, it doesn’t let you correct it easily, or if you see a mistake or missing information from a record, doesn’t let you add it - it keeps defaulting to the incorrect one.

And people disappear from the tree so you make a new entry but if they’re living you don’t have the option to merge duplicates (because there wilo be 2 entries fir thise people now even if you had to enter their details again because of the glitch of the tree entrees not automatically populating the profile entries family members lists and vice versa.

I wouldn’t trust anything I found on familysearch to be accurate from what I have already seen of the records on my known family!! Just 2 days to see all these flaws! That’s very bad.

I won’t be wasting any more time with it.

(& I only checked it out because I got an invitation from a friend saying ‘let’s see if we’re related’ so something to that effect.

Because the system doesn’t care enough about its users to differentiate between adopted & biological relatives, the ROOTS TECH matches are wrong as well.

It’s extremely frustrating and not user friendly where accuracy is concerned.

I wanted to merge 2 entries that I know for a fact are the same, but it would have deleted all the info from one in favour of the other (including files and records crucial to the person’s profile!) THAT IS NOT WHAT MERGE MEANS!!

It’s so shockingly bad.
And checking out their help forums I have already deduced that these have been an ongoing problems that remain unresolved.

What is the actual point of the site/app/project if they don’t care about accuracy or improvements?

I’m actually disgusted. Such a waste. I could be so good potentially.

Looking at this site I found a number of my family members marked as deceased when they are still well and living.

I have been using Family Search for a couple of years and love it. The site is well organized and easy to navigated. Visually this site makes sense to me.
They are prompt in answering written questions. And either connect or let the user connect to information to build family trees. They also provide some of the best tutorials and supporting genealogy information!

I started using family search c.2006 and always found what I was searching for. But in the last few years some changes must have been made to it because finding what I have typed into the search boxes has become an infuriating task. I put in the terms, e.g William Cato - but get William Edward Cato or Frederick Cato....anyone but the person I'm looking for and always outside or inside of the date I've specified. It's a really frustrating experience now whereas before it was simple and I always found what and who I was looking for. Which ever techs ruined this site should be fired. And, to the 7th day adventists PLEASE put this site back to what it used to be - Wonderful, Helpful, simple to use.

E' un software organizzato molto bene. Davvero il migliore in circolazione.

I began my Tree years ago and all was well for a while. No longer so. As it's a public domain anyone can post on your Family Tree without support or evidence, and tell outright lies under assumed names. Case in point, an LDS member and vindictive divorcee of my brother, using bogus names posted inserted, changed, and lied about various deceased family members whom she had never known. She also sunk so low as to report as a Source, "I was at his funeral". The funeral of her 2 year old grandson. She was not, and all in attendance would state same. However, FamilySearch accepted this post.

My other complaint is "we found a new relative" emails I receive. Most if not all are totally false, being persons not at all related to my family. Yet accepted as gospel by FamilySearch. Trying to verify or delete via their so called Support is a total waste of time.

I've been to the Library in Salt Lake City. A wealth of information and worthwhile. But the FamilySearch function now stinks. I'm thru with it.

Eu amei o site e acho que é a melhor alternativa ao Ancestry que vi. Reconheço a existência de bugs e da lentidão do site, mas também reconheço que muitos erros como os descritos em diversas avaliações deste site foram criadas por outros usuários "na zoeira". Recomendo a criação de um sistema de denúncia de usuários do tipo descrito acima.

Grazie a FamilySearch ho potuto trovare tantissime informazioni nei registri ai quali ho gratuitamente.
Ho potuto rintracciare praticamente tutta la famiglia di mio padre e i legami con le altre famiglie del paese di provenienza e quelli limitrofi.
Con il sistema di suggerimenti automatici invece ho potuto espandere il ramo di mia madre, fino a scoprire un ramo che non conoscevo emigrato in America nel dopo guerra.
Decisamente consigliato, il migliore strumento gratuito online che potrete trovare.
Piccolo consiglio: se avete un grande albero tenete sempre una copia salvata anche online con software come Rootsmagic per essere sicuri di non perdere mai niente, ma continuare a sfruttare al massimo le funzionalità di FamilySearch

FamilySearch allows me to search a number of historical records and every week they add many new records.

One other good tool is their hints email which automatically send me names of people who I may be related to and are not connected to my tree.

Absoluter Müll, viele Aufzeichnungen sind zwar vorhanden, lassen sich aber nur über ein sogenanntes Family History Center aufrufen (also nicht vom heimischen PC aus). Wieviele Stunden soll man bitte vor Ort aufwenden um alle in Frage kommenden Bücher durchzusehen?! Familysearch sollte sich einmal ein Beispiel an Ancestry nehmen und ein kostenpflichtiges Angebot anbieten, um Benutzern auch den Zugriff auf die Kirchenbücher von Zuhause aus zu ermöglichen!

The new website is totally unusable. I couldn't edit a person record to change the date from 1936 to 1836. That fix would have eliminated the web-generated complaint that the mother's birth was after the child (someone put the date in wrong -- should we be eternally punished for it?) I can't even register for the community board because it doesn't accept my username and says "Verified, is not an integer."

I won't use this tool for my family tree. I'll stick with Ancestry. Their website doesn't suck.

THIS SITE DOES NOT EVEN WARRANT ONE STAR. ACCORDING TO THIS SITE I AM A RELATED TO JESUS, NOAH, QUEEN NEFERTITI AND VARIOUS OTHER HISTORICAL FIGURES, KINGS AND QUEENS. IT ACTUALLY STATES THAT MY OLDEST RELATIVE IS GOD HIMSELF AND THE BIG BANG. IT LITERALLY HAS “BIG BANG” WRITTEN IN THE SPACE FOR FATHER. OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE COLLECTING YOUR INFORMATION AND SELLING IT. THEY HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN ACCURACY, BECAUSE THEIR BUSINESS IS INFORMATION COLLECTING AND SELLING NOT GENEALOGY. COMPLETE FRAUD.

A very poor site, very easy to add information to the site but almost impossible to correct even when the incorrect information concerns close family. I have discovered multiple errors in my family tree entered by a number of individuals. I reported the errors where even the sources used to justify the inclusion did not match, but FS did not do anything except advising me to put my comments on the forum.
I don’t see any point in using FS if anyone can alter the data and trees anytime they want to, I am very concerned about the accuracy and reliability of Family Search and now regret adding any data to it, will not be using Family Search from this point on.

This site is awful. The "customer service" people do absolutely nothing to help. The information is not accurate.

I wish I had never put my family genealogy on Family Search. Family Search has absolutely no respect for my decades of research with original records from handwritten Norwegian Parish records dating back to the 1600s and 1700s. These records are difficult to decipher and were contributed by a cousin and her husband who could read old Norwegian language and scripts. Family Search adds very inaccurate information, attaches erroneous records that are just attached and not researched. These records then become so "official" and cannot be challenged or corrected. The idea that US census records, state records, birth records, etc. may have serious inaccuracies don't appear to be considered. Contributors have deleted sourced records I add; have been very, very rude, closed minded and refused corrections. Some editors and/or contributors also do not discern common names that appear to be the correct person but are not the same person who may even come from the same area, county, state (US). Or they don't understand the numerous name derivatives of foreign family names, farms, towns, churches that are in a historical different culture. Some of these names changed throughout time. There appears to be no thought or research in their method of adding sourced records. There is no acknowledgement that I or any family member may have spent decades researching and have so much to offer Family Search and other users. I wish I could delete any and all numerous contributions of my family to Family Search; but it is out there online and will remain with incorrect research that will continue to next generations. Avoid this site or use it as a source only. I wish I had never made a family tree in Family Search. They are right and I am wrong. Black and white and unconscionable thinking and research. I wish I avoided all world wide community genealogy trees. What a nightmare. I wish I had kept all my genealogy offline and only used any genealogical site as a resource to download.

No official opt out so I sent an email to remove some private info, never got a response. Unacceptable.

I thought this was a great website that led me to ancestors I never knew about until.......
I followed several lines of my supposed ancestors including Kings and Queens of England, France and Spain and countless other royalty all the way back to Julius Caesar. It became suspect at the very least. The complete deal breaker was the line that showed I was descended from the marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
This is a disgustingly dishonest ripoff. I feel ashamed to even give it one star.