1. Getting Started (^)

To being creating your family tree, you need to register with FamilyTree.com. The fields marked with a red star are required fields. The privacy preferences can be used to indicate who you want your information to be available to. Once you have registered you can begin creating your family tree!

2. Login/Logout (^)

To gain full access or make any changes to your family tree have to login. Click on login or logout links are available from the top navigation bar.

3. Edit Profile (^)

To edit your profile information you need to first click on the profile link on the navigation bar. This will take you to your profile page. This consists of several different sections. If you click on the “Edit” button in any of these sections it takes you to a new page where you can edit your profile information. Then click on the submit button to update your profile.

4. Add Relative (^)

This option allows you to add a new person to the family tree. To add this person they must added as the relative of another person whose profile you clicked the “Add Relative” link from. The type of relative they are must be chosen from the drop down menu (Relation) which is given on the Add Relative page.

5. Add Relation (^)

This option allows you to create a relationship between two people who are already part of the family tree. E.g. when you add a man’s son and then you add his wife, she may be the son’s mother; however the system will not know this. Therefore you need to add this relationship between the mother and son. To do this you must go to the mothers profile and click on the “Add Relation” button. Then in the “Relation” menu you need to choose “son”. Then you need to choose the son’s name from the list of family members.There are two types of add relation options:

1) Safe Add - This option simply creates a relationship between two people without taking in account each person’s relationships with other people.

2) Expert Add - This option creates a relationship between two people, like the simple option. However, the two people also inherit each others other relationships.

6. Activate Member (^)

Activating an account will allow a full set of details about a person to be entered into the system.

There are three major options for activating an account.

1) "I would like to activate this account on behalf of this person."

This option can be used if the person whose account you're activating is with you. They can put in their own username, password and email address in order to activate and take control of their account. This will change their account status to "Active".

2) "This person is my dependent and therefore I would like to take full control of this profile."

This option allows you to take control of the person's profile, which means that you can now add all of the personal details for that person. Their account status will become "Dependent".

3) "Send an email invitation to this person to come and activate this profile."

This option allows you to send an email to a person whose account you want to activate. This email will give them the ability to sign up to FamilyTree.com and take control of their own account. Until the person actually signs up, their account status is set to "Waiting". When they have signed up, their status will become "Active".

7. View Family Tree (^)

To view your family tree, go to your profile by clicking on the profile link on the navigation bar. At the bottom of the profile page the core relatives are listed. Next to each relative there is a picture of a tree. Clicking on the tree will take you to the family tree for that person. The family tree shows only the core relatives of that person i.e. parents, brothers, sisters and children. If you click on another member in the tree it will take you to their family tree with their core relatives. By clicking on the different family members, you can navigate around the tree.

8. Simple Search (^)

A search can be done by clicking on the search link in the top navigation bar. This is a simple search which takes the key word given and searches for it in the database. It will return a list of members who have the key word appearing somewhere in their profile.

9. Advanced Search (^)

An advanced search option can be selected just below the search bar. Here you can search specific fields within a profile.