{"id":7770,"date":"2018-01-02T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T17:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2018-01-02T11:50:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T17:50:18","slug":"do-you-contact-familysearch-tree-submitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/02\/do-you-contact-familysearch-tree-submitters\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Contact FamilySearch Tree Submitters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While they don&#8217;t always respond and they may not know any more about the family than you do, it still may be worth contacting individuals who have submitted\/corrected entries on your family members on\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/tree\/find\/name\">FamilySearch<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>You may make contact with others who share an interest in the same family as you. This may be helpful when you are &#8220;the only one&#8221; working on a family or you have had difficulty making contact with relatives.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7771\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/familysearch-people.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/familysearch-people.jpg 870w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/familysearch-people-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/familysearch-people-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/familysearch-people-624x413.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You do not have to put your own tree on\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em> to use the trees or to contact the submitters&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/tree\/find\/name\">you can search all you want,<\/a> but will have to make an account to contact some submitters. You do not have to make corrections or tree additions yourself. Not everyone responds, but I have connected with others who had a collateral interest in the family and this can be a good way to potentially obtain pictures or information that you do not have.<\/p>\n<p>Yes ,the trees have errors and they are not perfect. I&#8217;m painfully aware of that. Yes, not everyone will contact you back. Responses reminding me of these two facts will be deleted and will not be posted as comments.<\/p>\n<p>Some people allow you to see their actual email and others must be contacted through\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While they don&#8217;t always respond and they may not know any more about the family than you do, it still may be worth contacting individuals who have submitted\/corrected entries on your family members on\u00a0FamilySearch.\u00a0You may make contact with others who share an interest in the same family as you. This may be helpful when you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}