I have not personally had these issues but they are becoming more common maybe you should find a way to address things like sex changes, sperm donors, foster parrents, and other complications of modern family life.
I would like an indicator that is put on a persons profile that states Never married, like the died at war icons etc. It's time consuming when you have a HUGE tree, to check someone indiviually. And, for example, I have never married, and never will I hope, but in the tree I have a Spouse box next to me, how do I get rid of that. A LOT of people never married it needs to be addressed I think. Not that I don't love FTB I do, and recommend it to everyone, but it could use development - who couldn't!
I use the "imaginary" spouse Did Not (first name) MARRY (surname). Not only do I see right away that the person never married, I don't spend time trying to look for a marriage record
The way my FTB is set up The married ladies name changed from their maden name to their married name - so for example, my name would if I used the imaginary spouse Jo Marry. Instead of Jo Kotylak. So I don't think I can use the idea, though it is a good one. Thanks for mentioning it.
We are many who use Family Tree Builder and My Heritage and many of us also pay to use it. There are very good functionality, but especially on family tree, Reports section and Time Book is desire need for more flexible functionality. We meet regularly on the challenges that make it difficult to make a good and presentable documentation of genealogy research. We can look in the forums where there are ongoing questions and concerns. I have a few pieces hanging. For the most part, the answer is the same, the proposal is passed to development team and it isn’t possible to promises that it will be implemented. Clearly, not all requests and certainly not at the same time can be implemented. But it would be helpful if we as customers have a place where we can see what the plans are with the product, which customer wants/needs will be implemented and whicht errors will be corrected and hopefully when for all in the plan.I think it would give benefit both the company behind these products as we are customers. This silence and lack of information can contribute to that as the customers are working with genealogy will be automatically required above. Rather than look for another software that can meet the need, we can instead see what the plans are with the product. My suggestion is that there will be something more structured information on the plans with the products. It would be nice if we can read about these planes.
I was at a genealogy meeting with someone from the Company. I brought up this very same question. He suggests emailing customer support with suggestions (rather than using the forums) as email suggestions are counted.
If a million people all email with the same suggestion, it gets pushed to the top of the development list. If only one person emails a suggestion, it's not going to happen.
At the company where I work, we use JIRA and I think both the tool and the producer of that tool (Atlassian) is a good example of how it is possible to get a good and fairly transparent communication and product roadmap via issues, lifecycles, votes etc.
1. Fødsel (Birth)
NOTICE that here is an error in the system because it's possible create more than one birth.
Born twice! A scary thought. Remove it from the list and then autocreate it when a profile is created were it can't be delete.
2. Begravelse (Funeral in a coffin)
NOTICE that here is an error in the system because it places it before the death.
Buried alive. Another scary thought. This isn't possible because you have to be dead before there can be a funeral.
2. Bisat (Funeral in a coffin and then burned) This is missing in this system. Why? All other system has it.
Wishes:
I have over 15.000 profiles in my family tree where I record these main events in a person's life:
1. Fødsel (Birth)
2. Barnedåb (Christening / Baptism)
Dåb (2nd Christening / Baptism) This is only if there was a christening / baptism at home and then a representation in a church
3. Konfirmation (Confirmation) Happens only if the person wishes it
4. Ægteskab (Married in a church)
Borgerlig vielse (Civil marriage)
5. Død (Death)
Begravelse (Funeral in a coffin) if the error will be corrected
Bisat (Funeral in a coffin and then burned) if they implement it in the system
6. Gravlagt (Burial)
Therefore it would be nice to have a system that shows the main events we have yet to find in the individual profiles.
As we can see in the picture all main events is found for the profile Susan Hansen but we are missing the Death and Burial on the Michael Robert Herlak profile. I'm not dead this only a sample.
Also the possibility to mark a profile finished would be nice. As you can see in the picture on the Susan Hansen profile where the red check mark indicates that the profile is finished. Then we now that the profile is finished and all main event is found for this profile.
Then we have to move the black line "profile marked dead" to the right because it's the last event in a persons life.
The best way to implement this in your system is to create it under Personalize in Site Settings where we can activate or deactivete it. Select which events that uses icons and an url address to the icon we want to use. On that way it can be used in all countries and all kinds of beliefs / religion. The picture below shows a sample how to do it.
Hope to see something like this in the near futher.
Have you ever considered redesigning your boards / forum to make them look and feel like the more regular message boards that one finds on the web. To be honest the current one is far to cumbersome to be of any greaqt use.
I also spotted a suggestion made some time ago for allowig managers to customise their site a bit more - for example having ones guest book or message boards accessable direclty on the home page - that for me would be a great idea
oK so there's my tuppance worth
ps - i'm not simply complaining I would just like to see things a bit better
We currently do not have this, although thank you for the suggestion. I will be sure to forward it to our development department for further consideration.
You know how you can list a lady under her married name and her maiden name shows on the main pages in brackets? An example might be my sister-in-law; when she was married to my brother her name showed in profiles and her 'personal card' thus; Elizabeth Stewart (Dodd), that is, Mrs. Stewart, born Dodd.
Okay, now they are divorced and she re-married. She is now Mrs. Durinck. I know I can list a former name in a hidden section of her card but I want it to show on the main card where everyone looking at the 'card' or profile will see it.
Thus; Elizabeth Durinck (formerly Stewart) ( born Dodd). With the possibility of entering more than one 'former name'.
The present system is useless because nobody sees the information!
Dear Athol Geoffrey,
Thanks for your post.
We currently do not have this for the same reasond Richard kindly wrote below: last names can get too long, although thank you for the suggestion.
If you would like to add this information to people on your tree I would recommend you to write it manually.
Please do not hesitate to contact us directly to: support@myheritage.com for furhter comments or questions.
Best Regards,
Ilana
But your answer only asks another question; Why does it matter if last names (perhaps including former names) are long?
The information is important, and it is important that it be visible. And I have confidence that your programmers would not find it at all difficult. Have you asked your genealogists about this??? I would wager you have not.
And although one or perhaps two former names might frequently occur, VERY long names (including former names) would be quite unusual so should not be a problem for a properly set up system
The problem of having too long names on the tree is that the space for the personal details on the tree is limited.
Another problem might be that some people don't want this information on their profile. Therefore we would have to include the option to disable this view of the former last names.
However, I forwarded your request to the developers departement for their consideration. The feature request number is: WEB-17104
We will keep you posted about any advances regarding this request.
I think this is a very good idea. However in the case as I have in my tree, some people have married up to 3 to 4 times, so the names can get a bit long. Maybe it could just show the last spouse.
