FamilySearchReviews of familysearch.org

I liked the limited amount of info they put in, for free. Inaccurate in things though, they said my father died in 2011, I should know he died in 2017.

The latest android and iPhone version is hopeless takes far too much screen it's OK on pc but on tabs and phones hopeless What a daft idea was that I'll just add I was a bishop of church for 7 years so I do understand the software

I like the amount of information. I don't like that anyone can comment on any post with derogatory, fabricated information and when an immediate family member requests the comment be removed it is not. Your only resort is to comment back and are forced to participate in a "he said, she said," childish back and forth instead of the site responsibly deleting the first comment.

I was drawn to FamilySearch as it's free, and my husband was already paying a subscription for MyHeritage. I trusted it until it took me way back BC and to Adam and Eve, via plenty of royalty. Now I don't have any faith in it (well maybe for a few hundred years back) and I wonder if their whole point is to convert the world to Creationism.

HAHHAHAHA. Apparently I can tracy my genealogy back to 300 before christ - How can I believe that information is even real? I can't stop laughing. And reading the other comments from users saying they found to be related to Jesus and Mary hahahaha.

I appreciate the "wiki" structure of this site and would like to think that all editors of information are trustworthy and careful. Unfortunately, not all are. I wish that there was a way for them to designated trusted editors for certain ancestors. Another annoying feature is that the site permits the "attachment" of sources paid-subscription sites that are not visible to people without the subscription. Many birth, death and marriage "sources" are behind a paywall of some kind (Ancestry.com is the most common) and so are not verifyible without the subscription. If FamilySearch was serious about having this be a truly public service, it would permit anyone to verify a source.

Positive - it is free and because it is run by the Mormon Church has a lot of information that might not otherwise be available. NEGATIVE - It allows ANYONE to make changes to your family tree. In other words, they can add information whether or not it is accurate (kind of like taking every hint in Ancestry and deciding all of them are relevant) and they can also delete information. When I asked Family Search about this, they said that of course people can, because it helps their genealogical research???? In my opinion, it is exhausting deleting incorrect information and putting back information someone else deleted. You can contact the "contributor" through the site and ask for them to show you their relationship to your tree. However, I found that people who were changing my tree did not, or would not, reply to that. I have, as a result, deleted about all of my paternal lineage (where they were willy-nilly adding and deleting) and will absolutely no longer use their tree app. Too many other sites will help you develop your tree. You can still use Family Search for info, but download it and do not add it to a tree if you have a tree elsewhere