"Relationship to me" cannot find my 2nd cousin nor father-in-law.

Could this feature be updated to include a more comprehensive match. It should be able to search across siblings, marriages, partnerships, etc.

Could you modify the default search function to use the "LIKE" query instead of the "equals" query.

example: To search for "Johnathon Thomas Smith" you have to type in "Johnathon Thomas Smith". "John Smith" won't find the record and "Johnathon Smith" won't find it either.

If you used the "LIKE '%John%' AND LIKE '%smith%' in your query, it will find it.

This would make searching so much more powerful.

I have my own local history and timeline that I wish should run along with that of TIME and Wikipedia. Should MyHeritage also make a provision for this?

Marj

1. Religious affiliation error ("Hindi")

In FTB, in Edit Person/Info you list a religious affiliation called Hindi. This is an error as it should be Hindu. A follower of Hinduism is a Hindu.

Hindi is the main common language of northern India (and the main official language).

Both words derive from Hind, which is another name for India, which is usually known as Bharat.

You may wish to correct this.

I suppose you can also correct existing users' downloaded software through a mailed update.

2. Taking up programming suggestions.

In another thread you replied to a programming suggestion something like "it is a good idea, if we get more comments we will take it up".

Would this work? Do you get many messages about specific improvements? I don’t see them in the forums.

I browse the forums to look for topics that may interest me and have seen suggestions for modifications which I thought very usefu. However, I would not post a "hear hear" to avoid repetition of comments.

3. Forums/comment dates.

I have noticed that posts on the forums are labelled with "x days ago" rather than a more conventional date,.

Without a date (and possibly even time) stamp it is difficult to refer to posts.

My suggestion is to apply a normal date (and time, say in GMT/UTC) for all posts or, if there is a good reason for doing so, have dates for posts older than say, 3 days.

 Regarding (1), will we get an automatic update when it is ready?  Or how do you handle FTB software updates?

 Re (2), to clarify, I meant that for any suggestions for changes/improvements you are unlikely to get more than one message, so if you waited for lots of people to write in you probably will not get that.

 Best regards/Dori

Hi Pamela,

Thank you for writing.

I forward this suggestions to our development team for consideration.

Please let us know if you have more ideas!

Best Regards,

Arbel / MyHeritage.com Team 

While adding people, I found after 200-300 people I don't always know who I've done completely and who not.

My family expands already 2^14 back into history = 16.000 people and more..

Also I want to add not just the line back upwards, but also their brothers, sisters, and where their decendants have settled and spread over the globe..

 As you can understand, it's quite a problem to keep an overview. For this, I'd love an option to add to each person and then to mark him/her as "finished or done" in a checkbox! 

 Further, using this "mark ready, finished, done" checkbox to fill a list additional to the existing "tree"and "list" tabs There's room for extra tabs, and right now only "tree" and "list" exist. A new tab to show only the "finished" or "unfinished" people would really help me out keeping track of who'm I'm done with and who not.

alternative, using this additional "done, ready, finished" checkbox of people for a filter in the already existing "List" tab..

I could of course add something myself and using the "search for people" each time. But I consider a radio button or a checkbox as the only good solution for handling this.

Especially since I know from own programming experience, adding such a checkbox to a program with a new "list" tab or "filter" or adding this functionality to the "search people" will take just 1% of the time as it would take me as customer to add a custom note or similar each time instead of just ticking a checkbox

And the features themself are even greater.

However, it's kinda wierd to assume a person doesn't use photo-editing software, album software, slideshow software, and doesn't publish his photos anywhere except only using this system. Maybe the devs don't know, but there are zillions of soft-packages and sites out there offering all kinds of publishing, editing, managing,etc

For this reason, people who want to do things right, usually set up their own folder/file name structure so they can easily find photos throughout the various services and programs or databases. 

 I miss this in MyHeritage Family Tree Builder. It's really a huge minus for this awesome program. 

 So the feature I want:

1) to be able to define my own folder structure where to store photos(not just all photos into photos but simply that I can store them anywhere I want

i.e. photoscentury16, photoscentury17, photoscentury18 and so fort and so on

2) to be able to choose where I want auto-renaming and impossible to know what the program is doing(give all control away and unable to verify what you're doing) 

or to keep original file names, keep control in your own hands, see what you're doing, and able to check file versions/size/date of the same picture easily with those of other programs/slideshows/galleries/etc...

Many family members don't visit often, or use many of the features, relying only on getting their updates from the Newsletter in their emails.  In the emailed Newsletter, the Home Page scrolls.  When photos have been added & appear on the Home Page, they can be duplicated many times, depending on how many individuals have been tagged.  This really takes up a lot of the Home Page space.  A better option would be to allow configuring in "settings," so that only the initial uploaded photo were pasted on the Home Page. What I'm doing now is deleting each of the tagged pics, leaving only the original photo. 

Thanks for a multi-dimensional, fun product!