Reviews for FamilySearch Tree

I love this app so much! After a tough day, I love to unwind with looking up people on here.I love how I would look someone up, and it would give you a brief synopsis of the last name, where it's predominantly located, and meaning. HOWEVER, Since you've done the update, it's made my queries infinitely harder. PLEASE bring back the separate ways to look people up. I literally feel like Im looking for the needle in the haystack now.

The New Search is better in many ways but worse in the most important way... please fix. I appreciate the better categories for search and the integrated results. BUT search only returns one genealogical record before going into other items. For me, it's almost NEVER the right person unless they have an obscure name and live in a small place. Too restrictive worse than unhelpful.

Hi, I just want to express a concern. I don't know if this only happened to mine. But I was writing a story in Memories and It was already very long and full of my thoughts and feelings when I accidentally tapped on the back button of the phone. Immediately everything I wrote was gone. I did not had the chance to click 'Save' so everything I wrote dearly just vanished. Maybe you can add a feature, a pop up, to confirm if one really wants to exit and discard everything that one has written? thank

February 6 2025--it's not syncing memories with the main server. None of the memories I've uploaded in the last 4 weeks have been added to the profiles of the people on FamilySearch so when I share files with loved ones--though they are marked as public it doesn't work This app is so helpful. It's getting easier to attach family history records to family members! Thanks! I love that I can see how I am related to other friends near me who also have the app open. What a fun update!

App is great, support team struggles. It's church service missionaries that aren't very technical. I had the "no capable browser" issue. They tried to help but just couldn't figure it out. I fixed it by changing the default browser in Android back to Chrome. I had it defaulted to DuckDuckGo. App dev team should fix this by invoking a capable browser.

Unstable and frustrating. Won't load most of the time. No longer syncs w/website. Terrible for editing and research. For merge or detach, half the time, buttons are below the phone screen, w/o the ability to scroll. Slow, full of bugs or glitches. I use it for quick reference, but must use the website for research and editing. Okay for checking your family tree at a glance and for sharing. Nice display if you include pics.

I just installed this & started with a basic search. It found records but they don't open - I get a brief "loading" spinning thing & when it stops, just an empty page. A message flashed at the bottom of the screen but it was gone so quickly that I couldn't read it even if it weren't partially cut off (which it is). I thought the problem might be my location, which is a different country from the records', so I tried a search for someone in my country. Same problem. This isn't very useful.

When I first downloaded this app a little over a year ago, I admit, I wasn't too sure how to work everything, and I was just sorta feeling my way around. Yet, as time has passed and more updates have come along, I find myself very much enamored with FamilySearch overall. This is a very good way for someone who's just getting into geneology to get their bearings. Yet, just because your tree may show you're a descendant royal lines, you're probably not. But I think they're working on that.

I spent over 3 years working on my family history on this app, and now I can't even access my tree with well over 300 people on it. There is no technical support to reach out to. I have to start all over and add people again and merge them. My memories are even removed from the app. However, the app still has all I have done on the app photos included. You can see it on other apps, but this is truly upsetting, to say the least 😒. I get it is free, but this is so disappointing.

Love the app! Helped me go all the way back it 1400's on half of my maternal side, as others have mentioned in their reviews, there are a few glitches, and some inaccurate things that will take some time to sort through, but to me that is a small fee to pay, for NO ADS, & a free research tool plus a free family tree builder. When people attach a back story or notes to a perrson its like a window to the the past , like you're there with them witnessing their life story play out before your eyes.

I love this app, but when I'm reviewing record hints where a name isn't aligned with the person in family tree, it pops up with a message when you try to move it saying to 'click and drag to realign with a family tree person', but you can't do that on a mobile device. Only option to fix these records right now is to not use mobile from what I can see.

LOVE THE SITE, NOT THE APP! I've been trying to use this app for several months. I get notifications of birthdays and things, but when I open the app to see them, it only shows the old notifications from months ago. I get the spinning wheel and it never changes. I even left the app open for 20 minutes to see if that would change. It did not. I decided to just delete it and add bookmark to my Home Screen of the website with text notifications. Just wished that the app would have worked.

I really like it for the most part. It is sometimes hard to get back to someone you are researching without starting from the beginning. An x would be nice rather than an arrow so you could return to the one you are researching. And there needs to be a way to add or delete information or double parents without nullification of the whole line. Making changes should be different than either all, or nothing at all.

Changes have made my research harder. The feature I've used the most was find a person. If there is someone I know is in my tree and I don't want to spend ages trying to get to their profile, I use that. Even if I have the name entered exactly like it is in records, it usually isn't the first one to show up. I was able to scroll through and find them though. Now it only shows the "Top 4" and I haven't been able to get to the rest. When it's fixed, I'll give more stars.

It is a great option for working on your family tree from anywhere right on your phone. But the download doesn't work, it doesn't give enough options if name at beginning isn't same as who you want to connect to the source and even when the names of family members are already listed it only connects to a few and wants you to click and place the other names from source only that doesn't work properly as it is almost impossible to do. But all in all it is a good app to have.

Overall, I have found this app much easier to navigate over going straight to family search. The setup makes it easier to correct information and to compare information. The way the record search changed on the last update made searching more difficult due to the way it is on screen. It is crowded together in a way that I have trouble. Sorry for vague explanation.(added). It keeps kicking me off of sources in adding.

Love this app and use it all the time. The photo and document memories for mobile are bugged to hell. I have been trying to upload several photos and documents and find that while they appear loaded for me, they don't show anywhere else (the settings are not private, already checked). I also can't upload a photo and choose it as a profile picture for a family member. I'll have to check on my laptop, but it's a frustrating bug for the mobile version, which I use 80% of the time.

It's a pretty good app. There are inaccuracies, but you can get a place to begin. If you locate info that's isn't there, and for example, add it to the wrong place or person, it's almost impossible to correct sometimes. The app itself is buggy lately and I have to sign in again every few minutes, often. That's so aggravating when attempting to research, refine, compare, etc. After all, what's the point in an app when I could likely do better just signing in to the site through a browser?

Ever since the latest update, I can hardly complete one small task before it asks me to sign in again. There's a check box marked "keep me signed in for two weeks" but it's a total lie. It won't even keep me signed in for two minutes. I'm editing my review after the response from the developer. The app is useful. It's nice to have a stand-alone app instead of just working in a mobile browser. I'd like to have more options to edit information when linking a source as another review mentioned.

Definitely a learning curve when developing the family tree, though once you stick with it and are very detail, the reward will be great. The layout and the features are actually very clean, friendlier than other sites. I happen to go big, so my wife's tree is way over the top compared to many other trees. It took me a lot of trial and error to really get the hang of the app, but it really is well thought out.