I found that none of the personal reports (except Addresses report which is actually not personal) have information about contact data for a particular person. Sometimes address of a person changes over time and indeed you have a date field in Contact tab. However when I input several addresses with different dates for a person this data is never used in the reports (even in Addresses report). My suggestion is to generate multiple contact information for a person in Family Group Sheet together with a date. Also other reports which lists all facts for a person should also list his/her contact information.
I have seen the reply on this forum on the same subject.
However the answer that it would be quite a challenge seems questionable. Re-tagging over 11.000 photo"s (!!!) with the same people tag is an effort that I will not start. I suggest that you investigate the (free) program Windoes Live Photo Gallery.
It builds up a link between a name and the tag in a photo. If you change a name all names in the photos are also changed. If a simple interface can be build between a name in family Tree Builder and the name in the name list in WL Photo Gallery the problem is solved and the records are linked!
The same goes for the other Exif, XTPC etc data (such as date, description, location etc etc) And of course vice versa. If a person in Family Tree builder is recognized the people tag(name tag) should be exported to WL Photo Gallery as well (or beter should be written to the photo data (tags) which can be read bij WL Photo gallery)
This would be an unique and great unique selling point of your software.
Gr. Jan
"We read EXIF information about the photo but we currently do not read the tagging information. Even if we do (and we might in the future), it will still be impossible to safely connect the name tag you added to the photo with a particular individual in the tree. There may not be a perfect match in the name, or there could be an ambiguity where more than one individual matches the name tag. So it will be quite a challenge to come up with an easy to use interface for connecting between name tags in EXIF data in the photos and the correct individuals in the tree. Having said that, challenges are never something we shy away from here so we’ll so some brainstorming and see what we can come up with."
Knowing that you are wokring on different ideas regarding extended colaboration for families using MyHeritage.com I would like to share my ideas and thoughts regarding the ways I would like to see this.
First of all me being webmaster of the familiy tree site I would like to have the "final word" on changes to the tree but still encourage all to help out. So instead of giving all invitees the possibility to edit (well not a FTB tree but I see that coming also!) I would like to see a 'workflow' where they can edit and I can then aprove (or discard) the changes before they are finally added (or changed) in the family tree.
Second I would like to be able to 'outsource' some part of the tree that I'm building to the active parts of the family members helping out. So some kind of setting to give a specific person part of the tree. That could be in different levels. For example (1) Yourself, (2) Yourself, partner and all below (kids), (3) Specific person in the tree and their partner and all below. There might be other scenarios as well.
Third is when we see family trees that are close togeter it would be cool to be able to link them together. Not all of the tree but some specific parts could be linked together (agreed by both parts ofcourse) and if someone then clicks in my tree in some part where it is linked to a nother tree it would show identically as if it was part of my tree (maybe with a lille indication to show that is it part of another tree)
Looking forward to seeing the new functions develped!
Regards,
Lars
Thanks for your positive comments about my ideas! I'm really happy with the discovery of MyHeritage.com since I see it as a good balance of genealogy, family functions, fotos and new technologies (face recognition, GEO and person tagging etc.)
I would be happy to elaborate on my ideas working with the functions and giving first hand feedback, beta test or the like if you are interested.
I would say a easy way to update the following details by individuals as they browse the tree online would make it easy for family members to come forward and contribute.
e.g. Dates like Birth, Anniversary, events; email id; Phone #'s etc.
Would you please update the new country on the script - Montenegro. It is an ex Yugoslav republic that turned independent in 2006.
By entering Montenegro on the list I would stop make confusion to people by entering Serbia as my living place.
1. My name is Anita Friedman, not FREIDMAN. How do I correct this?
2. I am shown in family stats as being 9 years older than my husband, although it is acually the reverse. Our birthdates are correct.
3. My parents Percy and Lily Gershenovitz are also shown as being married as my father younger than my mother and my father shown as the youngest person married, although it should be my mother. Their birthdates are correct
It seems like the ID numbers for you and your husband were somehow switched in our system. Were you the one to put this information in the tree, or was it the site manager?
try to delete the two individual cards, and enter them again. Does that fix the problem in the Statistics page?
I see a lot of questions and confusion around the different tree types (Online, FTB, GEDCOM etc.) and the general functions you can use.
Why not make an overview with the different tree-types on one axis and the main/major functions in the other axis and then with green (v) and red (x) mark the functions possible. I think that this will help more people get started in the correct way and understand the possibilities and limitations of the different types.
I see that FTB finds the faces on many persons when I upload fotos. The next step would be to have FTB suggest the corect person(s) for the picture. Several services are now pioneering software and functions to auto-tag fotos with recognized persons.
That would be a cool feature which would allow quicker addition of fotos with correct tag'ing.
Way members have funcion to edit a tree ?
This stops me to give membership to the people. Who likes others to editing the tree ?
Very unprofessional from myheritage.
You can actually prevent your members from editing your tree by going into Settings > Privacy and into the 'Members' tab. There you will the option to prevent members from editing the tree, and also from posting content to your site, if you wish.
I would like to stress that most of our users enjoy having their sites open for editing by their members, as a collaborative family platform.
I am looking forward to see Montenegro at list !
