{"id":4399,"date":"2019-02-17T22:55:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2019-02-17T22:55:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:55:30","slug":"cleaning-up-with-tree-sweeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/cleaning-up-with-tree-sweeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Up with Tree Sweeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=3432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous post<\/a>, we said farewell to Find-A-Record, a popular program for updating and maintaining your data in FamilySearch Family Tree. It was featured in Project 1: Family Tree in The Family History Guide. Now there is a worthy successor to Find-A-Record: it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.treesweeper.fhtl.byu.edu\/start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tree Sweeper<\/a>, from the BYU Family History Technology Lab.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, Tree Sweeper examines your Family Tree up to 7 generations at a time, looking for <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4406 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ts-options.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ts-options.png 429w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ts-options-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/>possible errors, looking for possible or definite errors, or research opportunities such as possible missing children, etc. You can also sweep Family Tree starting with another person besides yourself.<\/p>\n<p>When the sweep finishes, a Results screen is displayed to show the errors or other information that was requested in the Options.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve added a new Choice in The Family History Guide with instructions on using Tree Sweeper. You&#8217;ll find in Project 1: Family Tree, Goal 6, Choice H. There is also an in-depth tutorial on the Tree Sweeper site <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.treesweeper.fhtl.byu.edu\/help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Tree Sweeper in The Family History Guide and on the BYU Family History Technology Lab. It&#8217;s a great way to keep your Family Tree trimmed and in the best of health.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.websitevoice.com\/gdg8sme9Co8djc4uHOHRfA\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\n  window.wvData=window.wvData||{};function wvtag(a,b){wvData[a]=b;}\n  wvtag('id', 'gdg8sme9Co8djc4uHOHRfA');\n  wvtag('text-selector', '.entry-inner');\n  wvtag('widget-style', {\n    className: 'wv-circle-small',\n    contrast: 'wv-contrast-dark'\n  });\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post, we said farewell to Find-A-Record, a popular program for updating and maintaining your data in FamilySearch Family Tree. It was featured in Project 1: Family Tree in The Family History Guide. Now there is a worthy successor to Find-A-Record: it&#8217;s Tree Sweeper, from the BYU Family History Technology Lab. In a nutshell, Tree Sweeper examines your&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,45,11],"tags":[346,345],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-familysearch","category-technology","category-trackers","tag-byu-family-history-technology-labs","tag-tree-sweeper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}