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Family paths and tours

A path answers “how are we related?” with the people in between. A tour is a path a keeper chose on purpose, with a note and a memory at each stop.

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Follow a family path

Watch: choosing Ada Whitcombe as the destination and following the path from Nora · 13s

Silent demonstration. Follow the written steps on this page at your own pace.

  1. Step 1. From Home choose Follow a family path. Start with is you by default; pick Find a path to anyone in the family.

    Choose two people: Start with Nora, Find a path to Ada Whitcombe

    Choose two people: Start with Nora, Find a path to Ada Whitcombe

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  2. Step 2. Choose Follow this path. Each stop is a person, the recorded connection to the next, and any memory or record worth pausing for. Where the family records more than one route, the alternatives are offered.

    The path from Nora to Ada, stop by stop, with the recorded connection between each

    The path from Nora to Ada, stop by stop, with the recorded connection between each

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  3. Step 3. Save your place to come back later; Home offers Continue the path with the stop you reached. Your place is private to you.

Prepare a tour

Watch: naming a tour, adding stops with a note and following it · 37s

Silent demonstration. Follow the written steps on this page at your own pace.

  1. Step 1. Open More → Family tours. Give the tour a Name and an Introduction (optional), then choose Create and choose the stops.

    The Family tours page with the form for a new tour

    The Family tours page with the form for a new tour

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  2. Step 2. Add each stop: pick the Person, say Why this stop (optional) and choose Add this stop. Move up, Move down and Remove stop arrange them.

    Editing a tour with two stops and a note on the first

    Editing a tour with two stops and a note on the first

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  3. Step 3. At each stop, choose which memory or record is shown, or leave it to the newest. Private material is rechecked against each reader, so a memory a viewer cannot see is never shown to them.

  4. Step 4. Open the tour to read it as a relative will: the introduction, then stop after stop with your notes.

    Following the tour: Eleanor first, with the keeper's note and the recorded connection to the next stop

    Following the tour: Eleanor first, with the keeper's note and the recorded connection to the next stop

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Relatives find tours under Family tours and on Home. They can stop partway, save their place and continue; if a stop was removed since, the tour says so and offers the next one.

The list of family tours with the new tour and its stop count

The list of family tours with the new tour and its stop count

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