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Название: Genealogy For Dummies

Автор: Helm April Leigh

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

Жанр: Зарубежная образовательная литература

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isbn: 9781119411987

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      10. Click the Done button.

      The photo shows up as a thumbnail image in the Gallery.

      

You can add the photo to a Fact entry by clicking the Facts link in the menu bar, selecting the fact, and clicking on the Edit link in the upper-right corner of the fact box. Then select the Media link in the left column of the pop-over box. Click the plus button next to the photo to add it to the fact.

       Reaching Out to Others

      At some point, you might decide to make your research results available to the public. To clarify some information that you put into the database, you might want to create a comment about a particular ancestor.

      It’s important to know that comments placed on records of living individuals will not be viewable to the public unless you specifically give permission for others to see living individuals in your tree.

      To post a comment:

      1. Display your family tree in Pedigree page, and then open the personal profile to which you want to add a comment.

      2. Select the Tools drop-down box in the upper-right corner of the screen (between the Search and Edit boxes).

      3. Click View Comments.

      4. Type your comment in the box and click the Submit button.

       Hinting Around about Your Ancestors

      A special function in the online family tree is the Ancestry Hint. Ancestry Hints are designed to search through the names that you enter and match them to records available on the Ancestry.com website. Even if you don’t have an Ancestry.com subscription, you can use the Hints to point you to record sets that you may be able to find in other repositories.

      To see what Hints might offer for an ancestor, follow these steps:

      1. Display your family tree and then open the personal profile for which you want to review Hints.

      2. Click the Hints tab.

The Hints page shown in Figure 1-9 appears, listing record sources that contain a potential match with your ancestor:

      • The first column is the name of the record source.

      • The second column contains information about the particular record containing your ancestor’s name. Note that this column doesn’t provide all the information that might be contained within the record; however, it gives you an idea of the type of information that matched the record with your ancestor.

      3. Click the Review Hint button to take a closer look at the record.

      If you have a subscription to Ancestry.com, you see more information about the record. If you don’t have a subscription, you see a splash page that advertises membership and explains how to start a free, two-week trial.

      4. If the Hint isn’t valid for your ancestor, click the Ignore Hint link.

       FIGURE 1-9: The Hints page.

      

Ignoring the Hint doesn’t delete it from the profile. The Hint is moved to the Ignored Hints page, where you can review it again by clicking the Ignored Hints link.

      Giving Your Ancestors Some Mobility

      If you’re one of those people who are always on the go, and always need to access your family history, perhaps a good solution for you is a genealogy app. App is short for application, and typically can run on your smartphone or tablet. Apps on the market generally come in three flavors – free companions to genealogical software packages such as RootsMagic, apps that view online family trees, and apps that you enter data into through the app itself.

      With the free Family Tree app from FamilySearch, you can build a new family tree directly in the app or you can link to an online family tree that you’ve already started on the FamilySearch website.

      

When entering information and attaching memories in the Family Tree app, keep in mind that you are contributing to a public database – a database that can be seen by millions of people and that will be preserved in the FamilySearch vaults “forever.”

      The Family Tree app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

      The following steps show how to use the Family Tree app to add information to your family tree in an iPad. Although these steps apply specifically to an iPad, using the app on another type of device is similar.

      1. Turn on your iPad and locate the Family Tree app icon.

      The icon has a white background with FamilySearch logo (a tree with leaves in the shape of boxes). If you haven’t downloaded and installed the app on your iPad before, use the instructions that came with the device to find and download the app from the iTunes App Store.

      2. Tap the Family Tree app icon once.

      A page appears explaining that information added in the app is contributing to a single public family tree, that hints are used for finding records, and you can save memories.

      3. After swiping through the three introduction pages, tap Done at the bottom of the page.

      A What Is New box appears.

      4. Tap OK.

      A login screen appears.

      5. Tap Create Account.

      Type in your first and last name, username, and password (twice).

      6. Tap Continue.

      Enter an email address or a mobile number to recover the account, should you forget your username or password.

      7. Tap Continue.

      Type a contact name (that everyone will see), gender, country, birth date, and whether you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Enter the letters in the picture (to ensure you are not a computer filling out the form) and check the box agreeing to the terms and privacy policy (after reading them).

      8. Tap Create an Account.

      A box appears requesting a verification code. If you put in an email address, check your email. If you typed a cell phone number, check your phone for the code.

      9. Enter the verification code and tap Verify.

      If the code was correct, you see a new button marked OK, I’m Done.

      10. Tap the OK, I’m Done button.

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