the best thing about familyseach is its…
the best thing about familyseach is its shared tree and the worse thing its shared. tree! This means you get all the help of fellow tree builders. The later is more frequently helpful but you are at the mercy of their edits on the shared tree, the good, bad and dam right ugly! The bad reviews here are complaints of sharing and therefore losing ownership of your tree and its associated data.
My experience of above is predominately positive and considering its free that is is not bad at all.
Please note the shared tree is backed up by the biggest online set of online database. Usually most people part of the shared tree starts as family knowledge and then matures as firmer data by attaching online documents to back up the family knowledge to verified data. This works very well until the mid 1500s where these online documents such as birth, christening , marriage , death and burial documents finish and then the data becomes more speculative in terms of history books etc etc
The app could be considerably improved by aiding this process is instead of expecting the user to fit the app!
I have made a suggestion that each person background colour should be coded in the rainbow colours indicating how many of the vital key data points are back up with attached documents. Then other users would know not to edit {or only edit very carefully} those who have documents backing them up already.
November 7, 2023
Unprompted review