I always can not invite my family, because they not to much use email, but i can invite them and give much information about my family member, if i can inform them via facebook. so....i hope you can integrate facebook on my heritage.....because for Asian people, we feel exotic if we connected with family tree like My Heritage. amazing for us....
I have requested to join two sites in the past few weeks. However, neither of the site managers for these sites has replied. Even if they replied to say "no, you can't join", that would be something!
I cannot repeat the request to them (in case they didn't get my first request), because the system says I can't request again while there is still a request being evaluated by the site manager.
So what do I do? Just forget about the whole thing and look at other SmartMatches? One of the sites I requested to join had over 200 matches with me.
When I'm older and more self-sufficient or get enough funds.... I'd want to upgrade to the Premium or PremiumPlus account, but the thing is, I live in Canada and the money you ask for is US dollars. How would I go around paying for this upgraded Account when I can. Also, if I do go over the limit of 250 people in my Free Basic account, how would I go about keeping a backup of my Family tree so that if in the case that the laptop I'm using crashes or anything, I'll still be able to have all my Data online.
Please, reply back as I am curious and have all these questions.
I am only 17 and am limited in how I can go about getting all the funds and all.
My sister in law's maiden name is the same as my married name. It would appear as though the program has assumed I'm my sister-in-law. How do I change this?
How does the chat feature work? I keep seeing a [1] in brackets next to it and it displays the name of a relative on the family site. Does this mean this person is inviting me to chat, or is just logged on? I don't see any evidence the person whose name was displayed posted any kind of message. I would greatly appreciate any help.
When you see a name of a relative on the chat it means they are visiting your family site and are available to chat.
If someone invited you to chat, you'd see the chat window pop up asking to you accept the chat. And if you invite someone to chat, they will see the pop up and be asked to accept your invitation.
Try other simple method: on website (logged in) in right bottom corner switch language to any other, save, then switch it back to your preferred and save. Same steps make in your profile, in preferred language of emails. And wait, what happens...
I am new to MyHeritage.com, and have created a full family tree from my grandparents on one side down. We want this to be used as a centerpiece for a reunion we are going to be having this summer. What we were thinking is that, since many people will not want to have yet another login, we could ask only those that have information to add, or pics to upload, etc. to create a login to help manage the tree. Those that don't have any desire to do so, including the kids who just want to get on and have fun looking at the tree, would then not have to create a login.
In order to do this, I set the tree as public access, but when I log out, I see a tree with no first names for any of the living members. I looked back at where I had set that setting, and saw that it says, "Tip! Information about living people will not be disclosed." Is there any way to open this up? And I assume that if this is the case, then something about the Photos and Videos, Events, and Activities tabs would not be accessible either. I set up an activity and found that I can see the entry and the text when not logged in, but not sure if some restriction would appear later.
Can you tell me how I can open this site up for complete use, except for maintenance, by people not logged in? It would help for the elderly especially not to have to do that.
I am sorry, but we are bound to privacy laws and cannot allow you to do that.
Keeping the privacy of living individuals protects you, since you can add many individuals to your tree, without worrying about compromising anyone's privacy.
It also protects MyHeritage, since we can promise all users that their information is kept private.
Noam, thanks very much for the information. I appreciate your situation. I was hoping that you did have a list of markups for setting up the front page. I see in the default text for the Welcome block that you have a few entered there, but I haven't yet found a place where you, a) describe the use of these, and b) give a comprehensive list of all markups that you support. Is there such a list that has been publicly documented?
I'm not sure that these would correspond to tags, but they probably could. The things I am finding it difficult to do are:
Create a link inside that Welcome block to one particular node in the tree. In other words, if I want this week to highlight a particular person in the family, but next week to highlight another, it would be great to be able to put the person's name in text in that block, and then link off to the corresponding node the tree so that the user can go there to see the information and check out the pics/videos attached to that person. Currently, I have no way to know how to do this, but if a tag were created, something like <link to person "X"> where "X" would be an id identifying that node, like <link to person "123">, then that would be good. Obviously there would have to be an easy way for me to find that person's id, which could be done by putting the id number somewhere in the person's information page. Linking to the name text would break if someone later went and make a change to even one character, so this id thing is probably best.
Linking to a pic that has been uploaded. Again, right now I know of no way to do that, other than clicking on View Image in the browser and grabbing that url and then using that to create a link in the block. That's not difficult, and works, but to create an id system with that and a tag such as <link to pic "X"> would work nicely. And of course, <link to video "X"> would be good too.
One more thng about how these might work. Since you have a nifty text editor for editing the block of text to be shown in the Welcome area, you could change the "Insert/edit link" button at the top of that control so that it allows for the choice to insert a known URL, insert a link to a node in the tree, and insert a link to a picture or video file. Then, if someone chose to insert a link to a node in the tree, a dropdown would appear with all the names in the tree ordered alphabetically. Choosing from that dropdown would choose the necessary information for creating the link URL, and that would make it very simple for the user. Then of course the same type of thing could be done for linking to a pic or a video. These would be a little more complicated, but could be done, specially if the dropdown gives a list of thumbnails with their respective caption texts or something.
Anyway, just ideas. I really do like the site, and this type of functionality would be great.
Oh, and while I'm at it, I hope you don't mind if I mention another possible tag, which would surround a pic or video instructing that any text should run to the left or right of it for layout purposes, rather than just underneath, or just starting at the bottom right corner of the pic/video. And any other such layout stuff.
