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9Updates to Suggest an Idea🆕 11-5-24 Update: Suggest an Idea is still under construction. The recent changes that you have bee…
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5⭐️ 🎉 Family Search Labs as Announced at RootsTech- Please read before posting! 🎉⭐️We are thrilled to introduce a new feature on FamilySearch, announced earlier today at RootsTech. O…
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Changes to Suggest an Idea are Now LiveRead the yellow box above and click on the "Read More" link for additional details.
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4Messaging: Provide read receipts on FS messaging.Reformatted idea by a moderator: When I ... send a message to another user, I want to ... know if …
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17Provide night modeMany apps and web based programs have the option of turning the background to night mode instead of…
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22Unlink Sources after Unmerge AutomaticallyI have run acrosss HUNDREDS of files that have been merged incorrectly. For example in Wales is see…
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-11Notes in FamilySearchI believe that other guests should not be allowed to delete the Notes of other guests. Notes are g…
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3Person Page/Research Help: Tweak the Research Help algorithm to omit unreasonable suggestions.Edited for formatting by a moderator: * My problem is ... I get research help suggestions that are…
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1Person Page: Use the To-do feature from the Person Page.Reformatted idea by a moderator: My problem is ... I have to go back to the home page to recreate …
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4Change dates to other languagesJust as you so cleverly made it possible to choose which spouse's tree to show, where there are mul…
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0Create an option "On this day..."Create an option that shows all the milestones for that specific day for your ancestors - if someon…
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-8Have a universal UNKNOWN FamilySearch ID person place holder to attach these sources totoI dislike having UNKNOWN - UNFINISHED ATTACHMENTS. I check all the UNFINISHED ATTACHMENTS of the na…
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10Reduce clicks to simplify processesSituation: When I am working in Family Tree and when Searching for records, I now have to click thr…
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