Search for ancestors by place.
I would like to have a way of searching for a direct line ancestor, rather than for the entire tree. One of the searches I want to make is for all relatives from a given place (City or State or Country). Perhaps this could be a filter on the normal search page. For example, a nephew just got called on a mission to Belgium. I vaguely remember that I have ancestors from Belgium, but do not know where to look in my tree (and it would be a laborious effort). I would like to tell my nephew where his ancestors lived. There have been several times over the years that I wanted to search on only my ancestors and found the normal search provides way too many "false hits."
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Hi Davis, you might be interested in the Family Tree Mobile app feature “Map my Ancestors.”
It has some of the features you requested.
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Is there a similar feature in the larger FS for computers. I am so old that I do not use cell phones for genealogy (I need more screen "real estate" so I can better understand the context).
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So, I tried to prove you wrong! I searched for a "John Smith" who was resident in Belgium sometime in the 1850-1920 period. Okay, there might not be a source in the FamilySearch collection that matches, so why did I get these three results (using "Exact" searches) instead of a "No records found" message?
(You have to scroll down the right side of the screen to see my full search criteria - this would not have been necessary with searches using the old version)
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Update on above - the third result in the list is actually a kind of match! The record mentions a residence place of "Musson" and there is a place of that name in Belgium! Now to analyse to other two results.....
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Well, still no sense in the first result being presented, but clicking on "View Record" in the second actually does show the Residence Place has been indexed as Antwerp - albeit this is "hidden" on the other pages.
Perhaps, Davis, you should try a similar search, relevant to your ancestor (i.e. using his name and range of years you believe he was in Belgium - using the "Exact" options.
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I’m sure many users would appreciate using the features in Relatives Around Me on a larger screen.
Relatives around me uses GPS to pinpoint the user’s physical location to provide relevant results for some searches.
The Family Tree Apps are available for iOS & Android tablets & cell phones. I appreciate the larger screens on my iPad. Tablets & mobile devices may also offer accommodations for visual impairment.
For example, iOS 15 allows me to customize font sizes on just the Family Tree App.
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“Where am I From” is browser or web based & offers some features you might enjoy.
As always, results depend on accuracy & completeness in your portion of Family Tree.
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I would like to have a way of searching for a direct line ancestor, rather than for the entire tree.
So would I! I would like to be able to search the ancestry, or the descendancy, of any PID on Family Tree directly.
Currently, this type of search is available as a premium ($) feature on the FT partner site puzzilla.org.
Another option is the FT ancestry tree viewer, Fan Chart, with the Birthplace option:
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