I have more than 100 site members on my family site (http://www.myheritage.com/site-family-tree-129424911/cellier?familyTreeID=1). The tree is maintained on-line, and all site members are (and should be) entitled to making changes to the tree.
I usually know when family members make changes to the tree, because a log will appear on the "home" page that indicated that member A changed the data associated with person X.
Unfortunately, there is an exception to that rule. If member A decides to delete person X from the tree altogether, then all I notice is that the total number of persons shown on the tree (close to 1000 in my case) has decreased by one. Yet, I have no way of knowing, which record has (in all likelihood accidentally) been removed.
It would be great if MyHeritage would send an email message to site owners when someone other than the site owner removes a person from the tree, providing information as to which record has been deleted.
We currently do not have this option, although thank you for the suggestion. I will be sure to forward it to the appropriate department for consideration.
Please let me know if you have any other ideas as we do value such input from our users.
Add my voice to this important request. It is about time MyHeritage provides site owners a reasonable audit log identifying all the profiles added/changed/deleted. I consider the absence of this facility to be the greatest weakness of MyHeritage and should be a high priority for your developers.
One of the most impressives characteristics that a computacional system related to this site can offer is exactly compare similarities in diverses trees and propose the union of such.
I see in this response to another post that this is not possible:
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Não existe a opção de "juntar" árvores, você pode fazer o link pedindo ao outro webmaster que o coloque como membro e você coloca o outro webmaster para que ele também seja um membro em sua árvore. Divulgue entre os membros de seu site que existe a posssibilidade de que outras pessoas de sua árvore podem solicitar adesão no novo site.
I think this is a grave marketing mistake, as such tool would add imense value to this site, allowing us (the clients) to create trees that reflect how big a family can be.
So I have a suggestion for the developers to think about in this matter with a little more attention, fulfilling requirements from many users:
* Make it possible to unity trees.
* How to unity them, I see to options:
(1) We create a single tree with two administers. In the case both had paid for premium account, the expiration date would be the sum of both dates. Both admins wold continue to have their rights as admin (like it is done, for exemplo, in "bloggers.com" where you can have several authors and several admins, with no prejudice to any)
(2) In the case it is not possible to create a single tree with 2 (or more) admins, then redundancy of information would help. We create 2 identical trees with all data unified, each one administered by its own original admin. Members would have a coiche to move from one to another, or to register in both. They can have a consensus a posteriori to abandon one of them and take care of the other.
Thanks for your attention, and I hope this suggestion does not fall in deafs ears (at least some serious consideration would be respectifull).
Ruben.
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Acho que uma das características mais impressionantes que um sistema computacional relacionado a esse site pode fazer é exatamente comparar semelhanaças em DIVERSAS árvores e propor a união delas.
Vejo por esta resposta em outro post no site que:
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Não existe a opção de "juntar" árvores, você pode fazer o link pedindo ao outro webmaster que o coloque como membro e você coloca o outro webmaster para que ele também seja um membro em sua árvore. Divulgue entre os membros de seu site que existe a posssibilidade de que outras pessoas de sua árvore podem solicitar adesão no novo site.
Acho que esse é um grave erro de marketing, pois tal ferramenta agregaria imenso valor ao site, permitindo-nos (os clientes) criarem árvores que reflitam o quanto uma família pode ser grande.
Tenho algumas sugestões para que os desenvovedores pensem no assunto com mais anteção, atendendo um anseio de muitos usuários:
* Torne possível unir árvores.
* Como modo de unir, vejo duas opções:
(1) cria-se uma única árvore com dois administradores. Caso estes tenham pago por contas premium, o prazo de expiração se soma. Ambos administradores continuaram a ter seus direitos adminstrativos (como é feito por exemplo no "blogger.com" em que vários podem ser apenas "autores" e outros tantos podem ser "administradores", sem prejuízo para ninguém.
(2) Caso não seja possível uma unica árvore com dois administradores, então a redundância de informações pode ajudar. Cria-se duas árvores unificadas, cada uma independente da outra, cada uma com seu administrador original. Os membros terão acesso a ambas. E se em consenso, eles podem até abandonar uma das duas, a posteriori.
Muito obrigado por ler até aqui e pela atenção dispendida.
I frequently want to refer to my inbox and sent messages to check on correspondence with a particular person. Often something to do with e-mails I have sent concerning the details of 'Smart Matches' reviewed in Family Tree Builder.
Could you make it possible to sort them alphabetically, it's a pain to search through what will soon be more than ten pages of date-sorted e-mails to find a recipient or sender.
But I don't want you to send them in alphabetical order; I would like the option of (MYSELF) sorting the current contents of my inbox into alphabetical order.
A while ago I found a match to my family tree, but......I forgot to make a note in WITCH!!!! Now I can NOT find that person agian! Is is it possible to search in the family trees uploaded to this web-site? If so, how?
Not sure if I understand your question fully - but here's my answer.
Each person in your family tree has a smart-match icon if it matches to any other published fmily trees.
If you are not sure which of yourfamily members had a match, there's only the hard way to search each of your family members with a smart-match button. The buttonis green and is posted between "picture" and "research" buttons on your main page in the program. Same icon is shown on each of your family members that has a match.
I hope this helps you.
Best wishes
Michael - Denmark (So far not in your heritage tree ;-)
Since I have sent an email on the weekend and have got no reply, I've sent another email and am posting on the forum in case someone else has run into this problem. I'm hoping to get an answer today as I am off for a couple of days and I am hoping to work on my family tree while I have some time. I have recently switched to the online version and have found 2 problems: 1) After adding a custom fact, once I click on "Save and Close", it disappears. It does not show anywhere. If this is a limitation of the online version, why does it allow us to add the fact in the first place? I track my maternal and paternal lines with a custom fact "No. de Ref"and I need it to show on the profile. Only the people that where created in Family Tree Builder are showing all the facts. 2) Ever since I used the online version, it is not finding any smart matches. I have another tree that should be finding tons of matches, as it was doing before switching to the online version. Can you please let me know if these are problems that can be fixed? If not, I'll have to go back to Family Tree Builder, which is a pity as I really like the online version. Waiting anxiously for your reply. Thanks, EP
Hello, EP, and thanks for the idea! I have been inserting 'not for publication' notes in the Family Tree Builder member cards but custom facts seems a much better way to keep track of family lines.
I wonder if it is possible to ask the program to search for and list (or better still bring up the cards for) all names having a particular custom fact?
Thanks
Geoff
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1) After adding a custom fact, once I click on "Save and Close", it disappears. It does not show anywhere. If this is a limitation of the online version, why does it allow us to add the fact in the first place? I track my maternal and paternal lines with a custom fact "No. de Ref"and I need it to show on the profile. Only the people that where created in Family Tree Builder are showing all the facts.
thank you for the email. The reason why your facts or notes can not be added or editing online is fact that you have published your tree from Family Tree Builder software to the website. Trees which were created in Family Tree Builder are not editable online, it means when you would like to add facts or notes - you need to do it in Family Tree Builder and then publish a project to the website so it will be also updated on the site. If you need more assistance kindly let me know.
Yes, custom fact is the way to go if you are using Family Tree Builder and you want to visibly track a particular fact. They show on the profile online and you if you export a list of people from your Family Tree Builder to Excel, they will appear and then you can manipulate it, by sorting, filtering, etc. I use it to track my direct and indirect maternal and paternal lines at a glance. Family Tree Builder has a great feature that if you hover over a certain name it tells you what relationship it is to the main person in the tree and in the online version, you have to go into the profile to see the relationship. But I started my numering system before i discovered My Heritage and once I went past 4 or 5 generations and because I'm tracking indirect as well as direct and a lot of my people have similar names, I needed a quick system to tell me who was who and this works for me. I'm glad my idea works for you too
Hi,
thank you for the message. We are very sorry for the late response. Please note that facts should work the same in online site. Did you check it under different browsers? Please give us more details regarding that issue. I just tried to add some facts to your tree - and I did not have any problems. Please provide us an example from your tree. I have also updated your Smart Matches record so you should get new matches soon. If you need any additional assistance, kindly let me know. Please answer only in one place forum or by the e-mail I answered you. Thank you.
Best regards,
Justyna
MyHeritage.com team
I really don't understand this, not how to but what you get. For example in our family it is believed my grandfather was the illegitimate son of a Fitzroy (Dukes of Grafton), and my research has shown he waa born in their village. But how would DNA testing help me, would it say your dna is the same as a fitzroy? I don't see how, unless a Fitzroy had also taken it.
In my wifes family her ancestor is James Forbes Gill who supposedly came to Barbados from Scotland around 1870....how would DNA testing help? Would it show that her ancestors were from Scotland? I really cannot grasp what the results would show.
DNA search is undirected search. It will rarely help you confirm a particular match, unless both partners in that match agree to take the test, but it may generate unexpected matches with people you didn´t suspect to be your relatives.
Once you get your certificate back, you need to compare it with certificates of all others in one or several databases. MyHeritage uses its own database, but there also exist websites that work across several databases, such as ySearch (http://www.ysearch.org/). That webpage will allow you to enter your own certificate and compare it against a very large set of other certificates.
Regional matches are easy to do, because the same patterns (haplo-types) are found more frequently in one region of the world than in another, i.e., verifying whether your ancestors are likely from Scotland is fairly straightforward, but finding a match with a particular person you suspect might be related to you is not.
