I love using Family Tree Builder and have for some time. Now I am researching my ancestors y & mtdna markers to further discover where my family came from. I have been entering the information but there seems to be no way to export or easily display the information.
One suggestion that I would like to make is the possibility of chosing a person and having the program list their ancestors with haplotype/ dna markers. I think this would be quite useful. It could even be done in a family tree format.
Thank you for your great suggestion, we are indeed currently working on ways to display and better incorporate this new feature with the site and Family Tree Builder.
Most families have many stories about their family ranging from things that hapenned when a person was younger to funny things that happened later in life. In any case these stories provide a richer family history that should be preserved.
Currently the only way to capture this information is to type it into a document and upload it or create a note. I think it would be a good idea to create a way to add these stories. It would be useful to be able to record who told the story, who recorded and link or tag it to the person who told it or it is about.
A memory book does sound simular to what I was thinking about. That should allow me to write down the stories that family members have told about themselves and others.
I was not aware of the Memories feature, that could be very useful. It that also available through the Family Tree Builder software?
I have our family history in eight chapters plus introduction, addenda and appendices with lots and lots of pictures uploaded to our myHeritage website as attachments to articles in PDF format. This can be done under the App function-Articles. Most are public and can be reached from our home page. You are welcome to take a look on our website (Munch Family History Site). If this is what you are looking for, I'll be glad to help if you need it. You should, however, upgrade to premium plus to do this if you have a lot of stories, because you will need the unlimited storage. This capability is the main and foremost reason I stay with myHeritage.
What seems to be the problem? I have been using FTB for about 4 years, and am currently using the latest version without any problems what-so-ever. What OS are you using?
Take a look at my other posts and you will see that there are 2 threads going about the problem. I actually have a number of issues but the one that bothers me most is the (Not Responding) message i get every time i add a new person or edit an existing person. Running windows XP as i was advised to do last year when i was having issues wtih the program.
i know there is no option to browse my tree in my website . can anyone explain me why myheritage.com don't let their users to embed tree. i hope that its not about hit rate .
If you would like to include your tree in your family site, I would like to recommend you to create a Chart of your tree (Tree > Charts & Books) and paste it into your site.
You can also generate a GEDCOM of your tree and include it in your site.
Hope this is useful. Please feel free to contact us directly to: support@myheritage.com for further questions or comments.
It would be nice to have an option in the publishing settings to "not include living people"...epecially if you forget to set the privitization setting for an individual.
I would like the option of not even uploading that information. Just upload place holders for living people. This option is available in the GEDCOM export.
In Family Tree Builder, in Tools> Advanced Privacy Settings, you can choose which people you would like to privatize so that they will be published as Unknown. To privatize all living people, choose Add person, and then on the small magnifying glass on the top right to Search. Then select in Facts - Death fact, and Does not Exist.
That works...but for the average user...just clicking a check box to block uploading living people information is easier than building a query. Just a suggestion to make it easier for new users. Just adding a few quick privacy options to the publishing screen would help people protect their data that they do not want to upload.
Since we see www.findagrave.com links provided as free results on myheritage.com, I suggest that the "Find A Grave Memorial# " be made a distinct fact record field on myheritage.com
I work as a Database Admin. I like using myheritage.com and direct others that I meet through www.findagrave.com and at Ancestry.com to try myheritage.com
I understand why you changed the way e-mail notifications were sent last year. You want to be like all of the other companies and drive traffic to your site, get us to share on facebook, twitter, whatever.
Well as a customer I don't care about that crap. I normally delete or unsubscribe from e-mail lists companies sign me up for -- I *hate* facebook update e-mails, notifications from my credit card company about their latest "deals", etc... but your e-mails were awesome -- short, to the point, with some pictures and reminders about upcoming family events. Very cool.
Now all I get is "hey -- someone is having an event, but I'm not going to tell you what it is or what else is going on, you have to go log in to our website to find out!". Give me a break, this is terrible and I have now unsubscribed.
It's quite a shame, because it's one of the things I loved about this site and service. You may not have seen the direct hits all the time, but you could be damned sure with the old way "MyHeritage" at least stayed relevent to me and made me want to come update the site -- now I will no longer receive any messages and more than likely I won't be back.
I have already had testing done at FamilyTree DNA, mtDNA and FamilyFinder as have my son, Y-DNA & FamilyFinder, and cousins, Y-DNA. Will we be able to link those previous results to our MyHeritage family trees?
Our family is just getting ready to start the DNA testing process. Were you happy with the company's that you and your son used? Did the data upload easily into Family Tree Builder? Is it worth the $? Thanks!
