Sandbox Activity Person Added and All Alone This activity is to be completed in the sandbox. https://training.familysearch.org/tree/ Name: ___________________________________ Birth Date: ________________________________ ID Number: _______________________________ When non-members enter the tree their name appears alone by itself and no individuals are connected to them. 4. Look at Josephine’s summary card and write down When an LDS member enters the tree their LDS the following information. membership record has individuals listed that help to propagate the tree. This next exercise will teach you Name: ___________________________________ how to connect a single individual to people already in Family Tree. Birth Date: ________________________________ In the following exercise you will pretend to add parents to your name. Remember that we are in the sandbox and none of this will affect your real account. ID Number: _______________________________ 5. On the top of the page go to the tree history and click on your own name. 1. Put Henry in the main position on the tree and have Lidia displayed as his wife. If she is not his wife then select her. 2. Follow the line back until you find Lawrence and Josephine. 3. Look at Lawrence’s summary card and write down the following information. 1 6. Click add husband to add your father. This father will have a different last name than you do, but this is only pretend. 11. Find your couple and click Add Couple. There may be several choices look at Josephine’s name and pick the one that matches. We are pretending these are your parents. The tree is connected and everyone is showing. In this next exercise you will start on Lawrence and Josephine again. 12. Click on Lawrence and go to his Person Details Page. Lawrence has 5 children listed. 13. Write down the following information. A. Mark’s father’s name (Lawrence)_____________________________ B. Lawrence’s birth date _______________________________ 7. For first name type in your Lawrence first and last name. C. Mark’s mother’s name ______________________________ 8. Click on Additional Find Options. 9. For the spouse type in the first and last name of Josephine. 10. Click Next. Mark is a Private Person that only you can see. All living people that you add will be marked the same way. 2 14. Delete the relationship of Mark to his Father and mother. 15. At the top of the page click on Mark. 16. Click View Tree. 18. For first name type in your Lawrence first and last name. We are going to pretend that we typed in Mark’s name, or that we registered for Family Tree, and when we look 19. Click on Additional Find Options. at our tree we are not connected to anyone. We are going to assume that Mark’s parents are deceased. If 20. For the spouse type in the first and last name of they were living then we would have to add living Josephine. individuals to connect to the dead. 21. Click Next. 17. Click Add Husband. 22. Find the right couple and click Add Couple. The Tree is now connected together and shows both parents. 3