I have just lost almost 20 people and some photos from my web due to synchronization. I am very dissapointed right now. I saw these baners while downloading like "wow synchronization" so the first thing I tryied was this feature. Sadly it works only one way without any question. It simply deleted my data...
Is there any chance to get it back?
I think you should apply some confirmation dialog on web site before replacing data!!!
I think your suggestion warrants a free yyear subscription. You have made the most sense out of any of this V7 nonsense. Congratulaations on a brilliant idea. Why not email support and direct your proposal to the CEO- he is smart man and mightsee the value in keeping you on the team.
I have suggested this in the past and will suggest it again. There is a very simple, compact, and efficient way to print out a tree that is lacking in your wide selection of charts. It should look like this and not be such a difficult task for your IT programmers: Note that the line numbers show the generation level.
1. Person b.1800 d. 1870
his wife/ or her husband b. 1801 d 1870
2. their first child b. 1830 d. 1885
child's partner
2. their second child
child's partner
3. this couple's first child
3. this couple's next child
this child's partner
1. Brother or sister of first person in chart
his wife/ or her husband
2. their first child
child's partner
2. their second child
child's partner
3. this couple's first child
3. this couple's next child
this child's partner
I commend your perception and agree that this idea might be of great value to users.
I support your call for MH to develop this idea nad make it happen. I appeal to others who see the value in this idea, getting on board and show your support by adding to this forum.
I send out invitations but the family members don't sign in immediately, and subsequently lose the invitation letter. So, I want to send them a reminder, but the site doesn't permit that. I have been told it is because the original letter has associated a password with that specific email address. Well, I think the letter should be valid for 30 days, and if the person hasn't signed on, it should be cancelled. That would enable the site manager to resend an invitation.
When I'm editing my family tree from the website, and I'm adding a photograph to a person, and I cick the "add photo" next to the person's name, it prompts me to upload a photo of that person. If I'm not mistaken, you can't just use the tagged face of that person in a photograph you already uploaded. When I was using the family tree builder offline, I could do that.
Because of this, I'll have to upload a cropped version of people in many photos, which will waste lots of space and be confusing. Could you fix this? I used to be able to simply tag people in a photo and select an option for it to be their personal photo.
I have family here who used DNA testing, but I used 23andMe. I would like to import my 23andMe data (I already exported it from that site) and import it here. Can this be done (if so how)? Thanks!
I see both record matches and smart matches - my suggestion is taht it would be beneficial to tell from tree view which ones I have not already taken care of.
I am using Family Tree Builder and won't be moving to the new improved version until it has been thoroughly tested and tweaked. That said...
The background is that I have started a new tree for my wife's family. The patriarch, in Australia anyway, was of Italian race, from Switzerland, very possibly not very literate and with an accent not easily understood by people recording his details. With the result that there are many variants of the family name among the descendants. His name was Truffini and known variants are;
Well said and many of us suffer the variants in spelling- and there is often very strong sub groups that determine the spelling of THEIR surname as THE correct way, but this does not account for the others in the same line that have a differnet opinion.
Surname variants are the bane of my genelaogical life- but are not recognided easily by FTB- sure you can add a surname in the ""name" but you cant easily acess or display the variants.
I will try putting a 'dummy' name into the tree for each of the variant names. Enter a new person, using the variant surname only, and showing no connection to other family members. It will be interesting to see if SmartMatches then finds matches to other people with that same variant surname, who might have been missed otherwise.
Also, in the Notes, for every person with any of the variants as their birth name, I copy and paste a full list of the known variants. So that anyone who actually reads the Notes will know. Geoff
I could'nt agree more,it's a total mess.There are plenty of free tree builders out there that are much better and they don't have that rediculous limit on names.
