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.
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!
16 Nis 2008 tarihinden itibaren AtlasShrugging üye
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!
1)[WEB] option to save tree view style setting (Modern, Classic) per tree – style used very randomly, sometimes asks what style, sometimes uses one of them automatically
2) [WEB] ability to set starting day of the week (now it's always Sunday for both English and Slovak)
3)[FTB] it would be very helpful to allow scrolling the tree not only with scroll bars, but also by dragging with mouse (click anywhere except from the personal card and drag).
Your tree should stay in whatever view you set it in from the time that you visited your site previously.
Regarding the Calendar settings, I apologize for the inconvenience. The calendar problem that you mentioned is a known bug that we are working on fixing.
Your suggestion for FTB sounds great. I will definitely pass it on to the appropriate department. Thank you for your input.
My Heritage Family Tree Builder is a really good program (the online bit much less so),but is marred by the appalling Help files. The online Family sites have none at all.
I can find some 'How to' information on these Message boards but it takes hours to sift through them all to find what I want. You would find that most of the questions asked of team members would be unnecessary if you had decent Help files - thereby saving you all lots of time!
Also, in the next upcoming version of Family Tree Builder, we will be providing a new version of the user guide and we hope that it will be greatly improved. We would still like to get your feedback on the existing manual so that we can improve it for the next version.
I am glad that you are enjoying using MyHeritage.com!
Although there is no guidebook or virtual tour available for the website MyHeritage, it is not a very difficult website to navigate through. Please take a look around the site, and get to know it. There is a certain amount of trial and error involved in the process.
If you have any specific questions regarding the site, please let me know.
