I have been using various tools to build my family tree. I stared using this recently and found it to be fantastic. The amount of records and information found so far is great. Most amazingly its free of charge. I have been paying annually to have access to information and here I was able yo find it seeming less and free. The other app do have more functionalities such as smart searches and discoveries to link with records and other trees for insights into the past. Also the DNA options are available which allows for better in-depth searches. I would love the option to see some of these options come up here. I don’t mind paying for additional features as long as the access to the extensive database continues to be available. One feature yet to see in any of the platforms, is the possibility to request for images to be taken of certain specific records from within the platforms. At present I have to plan to visit certain locations to take such images my self for the records without images or not in the database. Great job guys. Thanks for this and keep it up. Try to minimise its brand commercialisation. The fact that access to a large record database is free is attractive enough with word of mouth being passed around and that could make it the one of the best platforms.

Whilst by no means perfect, and when inputting an ancestor who lives in one country it sometimes gives you a suggested match with a birth of someone on another continent, let alone country, which leaves you wanting to scream in frustration at the computer, “Of course that’s NOT a match”; it is otherwise an excellent free app. Very easy to learn to use. If you get stuck there is free online support and telephone support to explain how to do something too. The suggested records links are great and often match you to census records where the ancestors’ names have been misspelt when transcribed, so you might never have otherwise found them when looking on your own, and in many cases found records for me that I had been searching for for years! It is super easy to add photos, stories and sources, (although there are guidelines to keep it positive and decent, so no scantily clad pics or stories that someone was a wife beater, which I did not know about until I found some photos and stories had been removed) and also very easy to input new family members. You can view your spouses’s tree simply by clicking on them followed by ‘view this tree’, This does need to be further developed to include your spouses genealogy, as you can only see a relationship to you by logging into your spouses’s account, as it doesn’t automatically recognise your husband and mother in law for example and will say ‘you have no direct relation’ to this individual! Love the tool that says ‘view my relationship’, which instantly works out that an individual is your seventh cousin three times removed at the click of a button! Well worth having and using! Not to mention all family search records are backed up in the granite vault in the Mountains of Salt Lake City, so whatever records or information you take the time to upload can be guaranteed to survive for future posterity, which is surely the most important consideration!

The latest update has made this unusable on IOS, almost impossible to organise records now. 8 updates in one month is ridiculous; especially when the result is barely usable, how much do you pay your developers? This is awful. The app constantly provides pop ups telling me to update the app but it is already updated to the most recent version possible, I can’t make any research as this pop-up consistently pops up. The information addition screen has changed back to the awful clunky format not seen for years. It’s a massive shame because apart from a few bugs the design was basically perfect, and now it is ruined. After nearly 70,000 contributions, nearly 5,000 photos, and 12,000 new people added I will now sadly look for an alternative. Perhaps a good thing, as any proper early English research here is quickly destroyed by American fantasists, John Smith the English farm labourer quickly becomes Lord John Smith King of Londonshire, a majority of users do not care for the truth and are just looking to plug holes in their diluted mongrel heritage. Once loved but now hated, a tragedy for genealogists.

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