Thank you so very much for your input and assistance with improving our services. We do care what you have to say! After all, this is for you.
As for your requests and suggestions below, we are monitoring and relaying all to our Research and Development department for well thought-out consideration and implementation. Please keep an eye out for any such updates due to your contributions.
I would like to see the ability to give each member their own privileges. Currently you can only decide if "all members" can post content or "only webmaster" can post content. Why can't I set each person up so that if I want them to have editing privileges I don't have to give it to the whole bunch?
I've found this product to be very handy for a project of mine that involves creating fictional family trees. Unfortunately (for me anyways) I can't seem to find a way to add a calendar type of my own making to the program... Is it just me not knowing the program well enough yet or is it a non-existing feature?
When smart matches are rejected, it would be nice not to see them any longer. I don't want to restrict the matching and risk missing a match, but an option to prevent rejects from display would be cool
Is there anyway to alert members that you are doing site maintenance or if there is a problem with the servers? We all have the home page if there was a flashing icon with a legend to let us know that there is a problem it would be most helpful.
Yesterday, I had my family complain that the server was timing out on certain areas of the family tree as it related to Families and People. I covered by saying that there must be site maintenance occuring or a heavy stream of people online. Having a valid answer would make life pleasant.
First, thank you for a fabulous program & all of your hard work & dedication!
I have a couple of things on my Family Tree Wish List:
1. SOURCES - Ability to sort Sources alphabetically.This is my #1 wish.
2. SOURCES - Add just a few general Source categories. For example: 1. book, 2. article (magazines, newspapers), 3. correspondence, 4. verbal (speeches, presentations, conversations), 5. media (photo, video, audio), 6. website.
When we add our Sources & sort alphabetically, it might look something like this:
Article: My Favorite Newspaper
Book: My Favorite Book
Correspondence: Letters from grandma
Media: Genealogy 101 Video
Verbal: Some News Conference
Website: My Heritage
OR - we could select the Source Category & just see books for example.
These two would be a huge help. We have over 100 sources, & scrolling through them all could be easier.
3. SOURCES - Please considering moving the Source "Confidence" to the Source screen itself, rather than the Citations Tab. The Source reliability doesn't change regardless of how many times you use it. Therefore it makes more sense to put it in the Source section & just set the Confidence once. This would eliminate the unnecessary step of selecting the Confidence every time you reference a Source.
4. NOTEPAD - a little area where we could jot down notes & ideally leave open while we work. Even better would be the ability to save those notes for the next time we open a project. This would be Super! Especially when multiple family members are working on the same project.
5. TITLE - a main field for Titles & ideally permit multple Titles to be displayed on the Tree right under the last name. Once you go back past 1800, it seems everyone has a Title. If you enter them as a Fact: Title, you have multiple generations of people that all look the same unless you check each one.
But, if you add the Title to the last name, you end up with huge last name fields. Then you have to actually close the tree to see the whole name, or again open each person individually.
For example this man's last name with Titles = de Simiane, Marquis de Gordes, Comte de Carces, Baron de Caseneuve, Sgr de Goult, Sgr de Gargas, Sgr de Laval, Sgr de la Terrace, Sgr de Sechilinne, Sgr de Lumbin, et Sgr de Bayard.
Even with all those abbreviations his "name" is rediculously long. Yet we need to see the Titles to help link dependents.
6. MERGE - an easier & more intuitive way to merge projects. It's rather odd to have a Family Tree project - yet have to export it as a gedcom, to then import it as a zip, into another project. Besides the extra steps, there's a lot of work to make this relatively painless.
7. MULTIPLE SPOUSES - ability to view the family with all spouses & immediate descendents shown at the same time. It's terribly confusing when 1/2 the family disappears based on which spouse is shown.
8. MULTI-LANGUAGE - ability to view both languages at the same time, on the tabs & on the reports. Or at least show the entries in the language entered.
For example, when I started, I didn't realize that if I didn't translate into English - all the data I entered in the French fields wouldn't display. Now I have hundreds of people to go through individually to find all those entries that I can't see.
If they displayed in the language entered, we could tell at a glance that we need to translate something.
This would also enable sending the same Project to family members who speak different languages.
There are more items on my Wish List, but I'll end it here .. for now :)
Love the program & appreciate your consideration. Thanks!
Let me start off by saying I really enjoy your product.
Beg my pardon if this request offends anyone: Under the Info tab of a person's record, could a selection of race be added? My family is a melting pot and being able to list this would be a plus. I know I could probably do this as a custom fact, but keeping it with the Info tab would keep it consistant. Again, please excuse me if this offends.
I know this is very low on the priorities, but the ability to have software for iPhones would be great to add data on the fly.
Reports: A migration report would be nice to chart the directional flow of ancestors.
Love what you're doing with this program...I hope you surpass other ancestry software!
