And in the realm of online family tree services, there are two approaches. One is you build your own tree, but with the help of other people's trees and other r

And in the realm of online family tree services, there are two approaches. One is you build your own tree, but with the help of other people's trees and other records. That's what ancestry is. The other type is the single universal tree that is built collaboratively. That's what wikitree is, and familysearch also has that as a component. For what I've done, wikitree is a great match, but where things are messed up by people being sloppy, it can be pretty hard to straighten it all out.