Community Trees are lineage-linked genealogies from specific time periods and geographic localities around the world. Theinformation also includes the supporting sources. Most of thegenealogies are joint projects between FamilySearch and others who livelocally or have expertise in the area or records used to create thegenealogies. Each Community Tree is a searchable database with views ofindividuals, families, ancestors and descendants, as well as printingoptions.
The scope of partner projects may be a small, grass roots village ortownship working together to form a family tree of all the knownresidents of its community for a given time period. Some aregenealogical and historical societies working with FamilySearch to indexseveral sources of data to link them to common, lineage-linkedgenealogies of a targeted geographic area of interest.
The scope could also be focused on a particular record set and locality.The goal may be to identify and reconstitute all families of aparticular place from a village, county, or even a country. Many of thecurrent projects were produced by FamilySearch's Family Reconstitutionteam and date back to the medieval times. One even has the audio of theoral genealogies attached.
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I posted over a thousand records at Shared Tree, a different website, but I am not happy with the site's down time (excessive in my opinion), I don't see much evidence that the site is being maintained, and, I worry about my freely given donations ending up in a pay per view site.
I hope that Community Trees puts Ireland on its radar soon.