FamilySearch.org

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

Where to start! Their search engine works 1% of the time. It appears they are using 2-3 DIFFERENT search engines, when you try and add a family member that you found via one engine on their site, that person will not be on the others and FORGET adding them to your tree because that feature either does not exist or out right does not work. Nothing on this site seems to function on either IE nor Chrome. Move on, I repeat move on and never look back

I have the greatest respect for all the time and effort that went into copying all those records. They have been of great help to me in documenting my genealogy. However, it infuriates me to find people adding people to a tree that the most basic research would show do not belong there. This has happened to me more than once, and as a result I really don't trust this site very much. I am giving a 3 only because of the documented material. The trees themselves would get a big 0.

I admire the long work being done with this site but the major problem I found with my own personal search is a lot of the information is incorrect. For example I looked up my grandmother. According to family search she married her father her sisters name was spelled wrong, one sibling was missing and another was said to be deceased when I knew very well he is alive and well. When people can add things as they want there is a problem of inaccuracies. It was also a pain in the butt trying to correct the information.

This is so bad!!!!! I cannot delete a certain person who by the way I did not add from my tree, nor can I make another tree or delete my current tree!!!!! Please fix until then I'm giving a zero out of 2 million 120 thousand 14

It’s not free every time i want to do something they won’t show me unless i join for a lot of money