It seems to me that this request should not be that difficult to implement and would be of great benefit to your membership. Just another reason to wait out my year's subscription and not renew.
thank you for your feedback. Maybe it sounds easy, but it is not as you think. Please note that we are not able to launch each feature suggested by our users. We wish we could do it, however not always we can. We are working on Smart Matches improvments and I forwarded your inquiry to the right department.
Canned response (different wording, same meaning). I gave up trying to do anything productive with this site a long time ago. I'm just using it as an online tree to plug information into until I find another site that has A LOT more of the features I want.
You hit the nail on the head there!! There is a lot that doesn't work right at this site, I clicked on your profile to see if I could get your email address to send a message and I kept being taken to my home page on the site. The other day I couldn't get out of someone else's site and back to my own even after restarting my browser. Another member told me the method to do that.
Anyway, my reason for writing is this: have you ever tried Tribal Pages? I have had my tree on there for a long time and what I like about it is the privacy settings which can be as lenient or as strict as you would like. It is also way cheaper and way easier to use. www.tribalpages.com. The privacy settings on here are really terrible especially if you invite others to your tree. When stuck in the other person's tree the other day I could have changed the privacy settings had I been so inclined, that is terrible. Also, Tribal Pages has a "note" capability which I use to tell stories or explain my conclusions on certain ancestors and why I think they belong on my tree. Nothing like that here.
The privacy settings are fine as long as you don't invite anyone to see your tree which to me defeats the purpose of having a website such as this. There are 2 things specifically that bother me.
1. If I invite someone into my tree they can see everyone, even living family members. This is not acceptable as I have promised all living people that I will not expose any of their information on the internet. I expect there is a method of going to each living individual on my tree and making them private but I have too many and it would take a tremendous effort on my part to hide each one.
2. When I was "stuck" in someone else's tree the other day (they had invited me to be a member) I was shocked to discover I could do virtually anything I wanted even to change their privacy settings if I was so inclined. This is just not acceptable. Maybe this person had not set their privacy settings properly for this to happen I don't know.
The information regarding privacy settngs needs to be very much clearer on your website so each person is well informed about how their website is operating. Until that time I will keep my tree shut up as tight as possible and direct them to my online tree elsewhere where I can control what they see. I am quite happy to share my research but not when it exposes the information of the living people in my tree when I do not have their permission to share it with the world.
thank you very much for your clear suggestion. I forwarded your improvments - suggestions to our privacy department on MyHeritage. I will let you know about the feedback I will get for you.
It will be nice, if I can see difference between sibblings in modern tree. For example, my ancestor had 9 chldren, and 5 of them died as child. Year was 1733, I doubt I will get any photo of 65 percent of persons in my tree. It is nice to have in Modern tree pink silhouette of woman and blue of man. But it will be better and nicer when the tree do the math with date of death minus date of birth and you get number 0-90. So children are 0-15.
When tree do the math and number will be between 0-15, it will change the pink or blue silhouette to slightly lighter pink silhouette of girl with 2 hairtail or blue silhouette of boy.
Or children dead between 0-15 years of age will have LIGHTER pink silhouette of girl or blue silhouette of boy.
In the same way that you find smart matches within other family trees on your site, it would be a spectacular feature to automatically run searches on all available data bases for every person in a tree and alert any matches. There are so many data bases, census and other sources where you offer search options in your research area which would take very long to search for every person in the tree. It would be nearly impossible logistically for a manager to run a search for each person, inventory searches done, and keep them updated with all the databases. If this was a proactive feature in which you ran those searches regularly, it would be a researcher's dream. tx!
My family tree created by Heritage is so long that printing and being able to read names is almost impossible. Does anyone know if there is a way to move family segments around within the tree in order be able to print it on either letter or legal paper and still be able to read the names, etc.
My family tree created by Heritage is so long that printing and being able to read names is almost impossible. Does anyone know if there is a way to move family segments around within the tree in order be able to print it on either letter or legal paper and still be able to read the names, etc.
Hi,
I had the idea of (without actually changing the tree) doing an ancestor chart (fan shape, probably) to say seven generations (using myself as the starting point). (And here there would be an overlap of two generations, as you will see, which would make it easier to consult the chart(s) and to see their place in relation to each other; you could see the same information at the top of the first chart and at the bottom of the others...) (and seven generations fits into, I think from memory, a single A3 sheet or two A4/letter sheets joined...) (Your local printery will do at least those double-sized sheets quite cheaply and the paper is heavier too).
Then do another similar ancestor chart FOR EACH OF THE SIXTEEN PEOPLE AT THE FIVE GENERATION LEVEL and you have say twelve generations. Or you could do sixtyfour people at the seven generation level and you would have at least fourteen generations; but sixteen at the starting point for the new charts seems manageable. Roughly paste the charts onto heavy paper/light card and you can store them easily, and just take out the one or two (the first, or one of the second, or the first AND one of the second ones) that would be probably all you want to see at the one time.
Or just store them flat and don't bother with the heavier backing.
I had thought of also printing this out as a working document so that I could easily refer to the complete tree, and at the same time see the GAPS; and then I could pencil in new names, and only reprint it when there were a lot of the gaps filled.
Simpler than it sounds; very simple. Most of what I wrote is 'why', and 'by-the-way', stuff, to make it easier to do and understand...
I couldn't find anything about this, but is there a world map where we can view members of our family tree (their current residence)? This is for the web version.
It would be cool to see the distribution of the family throughout the world.
I would like to be able to have more criteria when searching in my family tree to create a list. For instance I would like to be able to figure out if any of my family served in the Civil War. So I tried to figure out how to export to excel a list of all males that were alive during the years of 1861-1865.
So I suggest that we can search in a date range that we choose.
Excel 2010 has a wonderful filtering system, however I don't have 2010. I have 2007 which isn't a wonderful filtering system when it comes to dates and date ranges. You can't do date ranges in 2007. And to just to filter certain dates is VERY time consuming in 2007.
In many branches of Christianity Christianing and Baptism are two different things so I would like it if there were official places to put both of them. Baptists christian babies as infants but can't baptize until age 7. I would also like to see some kind of alternate spelling place so it will match up on smart matches but we don't have to look at 7 spellings of Susana for the same woman. Some kind of dissabillities place would be nice also I have issues with putting a missing limb or low IQ under illness.
I can see that you use Family Tree Builder. You can add these 2 facts!
To do so:
Open Family Tree Builder and your project in it. Find the person who you want to add the facts to.
Click on edit and go to the facts tab. Then click on new fact, and you'll be able to choose the Christianity catagory. Then pick either Baptism of Christianing.
I keep receiving offers oi and on! For more than a year, I BEGGED you so many times (see my messages in this forum) to make some minor but very important updates, and NOTHING !!! You even requested me to translate for you, because I'm one of the most important Romanian-language users. But in exchange, you treated my requests with a total IGNORANCE !!!
I speaked everybody of Myheritage, how good is this site, I made publicity everywhere for you, and all you are sending me is.....upgrade offers !!!
This is really outrageous ! You should be ashamed !
I hate to say it, because I love working with this site, too, but I agree! Speedier support would also be greatly appreciated. I have not been able to open FTB for almost a week and I am still waiting for the advice and help I asked for 5 days ago.
