Did you notice my other request for bug fix - feature request? The default photo for a person changes unpredictably when multiple photos are uploaded and labeled. There is no option for selecting default photo for a person among already uploaded, only to upload a new one.

That needs to be fixed.

It is now a convention on the web - for each uploaded photo at any later time to have a command - select this photo as user's profile photo - and prompting for custom trimming/cropping.

Agreed, I would love to see an option to LINK to another tree rather than have to include all that information into your own. 

Great idea!  Let's see it happen! 

Hallo,

This would realy be a great feature (requested since THREE years).

Has anyone got ever a REAL solution on that.

As mentioned already above by someone else - i also have sucessfully found someone working on a tree. How can i copy over the subtree into my ONLINE tree?

regards, Rinaldo 

Hi Lior and the MyHeritage team,

Merging two trees doesn't actually seem to merge anything - it just makes a list of duplicates. Also, Smart Matches don't match my two (slightly different) trees - eg. "Seawright Family Tree" and "Seawright Family Tree 13 Dec 2012".

How do I go about comparing the two trees to see where they are different, so they can be matched correctly? Manually viewing both entire family trees is not possible, because I don't recall where the changes were made.

Will someone please look at fixing the Merge option, and maybe having it as an option on the website, so it really does merge identical people rather than just making a huge list of duplicate people? The Merge function is rather useless as it doesn't actually seem to do anything.

Thanks,

Caroline... 

Thanks, Esther... but the Connect feature doesn't seem to allow people from other Trees to be connected to that same person. It is only giving the option of parents, siblings, partners, etc.

 What is taking so long to make this a viable feature? Four years is a bit long... 

 The whole system is unwieldy and doesn't seem to have simple options like transferring other people's details (eg. occupation, parents, siblings, children, etc, who are not 'private') across to your tree, even if both parties have said they are the same person and you have access to the other tree.

 Is there any sign of a better user experience (seeing as we users are paying money for this!) in the near future?

 Copy-and-pasting for hours of the day isn't what users should be doing - they should be focusing on finding out their history with the others with whom they have connected! Not trying to remember if Fred's wife was spelled Ann or Anne, and trying to remember her date of birth to add it a blank Partner and hope the Smart Match a tally triggers (which it occasionally fails to do, yet it can trigger for completely unrelated people)..... Etc.  

Hi Rhianna,

it is related to the topic of this thread - I want to connect, say Fred Smith, to Fred Smith from another tree as he is the same person. I also want Fred Smith's occupation, direct non-private family members, etc, to be copied across, too.

 Also, the Family Tree Build program runs into the inability to copy even birth data of an individual from the site to the tree. Using the program is much more limited than the online site! How do you make a tree made on this program usable on the website?

 Can you please explain how to automatically merge Smart Matches on the site, please? I have not seen that option offered on the site.

 Is there an instruction manual for this site, as it seems impossible to figure out without one!

 Cheers,

Caroline... 

Hi Rhianna,

Thanks for the response.

So, as far as I am inferring from what I am reading, what I want to do is only manual, not automatic.

Now, how do I automatically copy details like occupation, direct family members, burial, facts, etc, from two or more SmartMatches online? The page only shows what I already know: how to copy name, birth, death and photos.

The important details are not listed, and family members vanish on the copy screen. This is very frustrating and time consuming!

thanks,

Caroline... 

Dear Lihi,

Thanks, but there is still no info on how to copy details like occupation, direct family members, burial, facts, etc, from two or more SmartMatches online?

Your reply only shows what I already know: how to copy name, birth, death and photos. 

Thanks,

Caroline... 

Hi,

Please try going into your family tree, making a small change on the tree, and re-publishing your tree to your family site.

The next time that you go into smart matches, they should be updated. It is possible that there will be a slight delay. 

Best Regards,

Esther / MyHeritage Team 

Would you please stop all smart matching. It's is very embarrasing to witness the results.

 I just got at smatmatch today - Ane Margrethe Christiansdatter matched to unknown in an other family tree. Any genealogist will point the Thumb down on this one.

 Ana Cathrine Jørgensdatter matched to Anna Hansen in another century.. The list goes on.

 Eighter stop this smartmatching or get a grip.

Really - it's too embarrasing to wittnes one hopeless match after the other. Spare us.

 Anne.

I've been doing research off and on for almost 20 years. I've even gone to the Mormon's Family History library in Utah. I'm amazed at how many matches your program has found for me. Agreed, some are far fetched, but when you look at the report and see how many matches exist in one tree, you can narrow it down. Just last night alone, I found 4 trees (out of about 40 possible matches) that had EXACT matches and a LOT of additional information. Keep up the great work! With old fuzzy records it may take a little more time to find your true matches, but it's worth it!

Thanks for a great web site!

Bonjour,

j'ai créé un deuxième site, a partir d'un premier, et j'aimerais avoir des smart matching qui correspondre au deuxième, mais je n'en recois pas, savez-vous pourquoi?

merci!

Francine