How to Create a Floating Tree on Ancestry

What is a floating tree? Why should you create a floating tree? In this episode I’ll show you how to create a floating tree on Ancestry.com and how it can help you with your genealogy research.

A floating tree is simply an unlinked tree within your family tree on Ancestry.com. It's primary purpose is to trace other people or clans that somehow are associated with your ancestors.

A floating tree stands alone and is not linked to anyone in your primary tree but is contained within the same file name as the tree you are working on.

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0:00 Intro
0:48 What is a Floating Tree?
3:20 Handout Info
3:47 Create Floating Tree
4:30 Create Friend Profile
5:20 Add Son to Person
6:15 Disconnect Person
6:50 View Floating Person
7:04 Return to Home Tree
7:16 Search in Tree
7:50 How to Find Floating Person
8:09 Add person to Floating Person
8:20 Use Floating Tree for DNA Matches
8:45 Add Web Links Between People
11:43 Why use a Floating Tree?
12:50 How to delete a person
13:07 Delete a Weblink

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