Single page where I can see all the people in my tree who have hints
It would be very helpful to have a page where I can see all the people in my tree who have hints. I know that I can see hints on the main page and keep clicking on more but that is not as useful to me as my idea. Also, when I reach the end after pushing more, I don't really know whether that is all of the people with hints. BTW, Ancestry has this feature.
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davidjaygross
David
Just in passing ...
Despite, have some understanding of the reason, for wanting and suggesting such ...
The "Recommended Tasks", on our "Landing"/"Home" page/screen, ONLY "Lists" SOME of one's Ancestors, with "Record Hints".
Once, one "Clears", ALL those, on that "List", after a "Refresh"; and, sufficient time, for the "System" to "Synchronise", NEW possibilities WILL appear.
Whereas ...
As to your suggested enhancement for a SINGLE "Page" (or, even, a CONTINUOUS "List") of Ancestors, with "Record Hints" ...
I would humbly suggest, that would me quite impossible ...
Similarly, as I suggested in your recent previous 'Post' ...
FamilySearch Help
'Category' = Family Tree
HOME > FAMILYSEARCH HELP > FAMILY TREE
Search my family tree for a specific person
https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/115815/search-my-family-tree-for-a-specific-person
Like it or not ...
Firstly ...
The "Models", of that of, "Family Tree", of 'FamilySearch'; and, "Ancestry_com", are TOTALLY different.
ie.
One DOES NOT have a 'Tree', in "Family Tree", of 'FamilySearch'
Whereas ...
One DOES have a 'Tree' (or, 'Trees'), in "Ancestry_com".
Now ...
That Said ...
Here is an old 'standby' of mine, that I have previously proffered on occasion ...
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Most new (and, some old) Users/Patrons, DO NOT, understand, the basic 'nature' and 'premise', of the "Family Tree" Part, of 'FamilySearch', when they join in.
Please let me explain ...
We do not have our OWN "Tree", in the "Family Tree" Part, of 'FamilySearch'.
We ONLY have "Branches" (ie. Ancestral" lines), that are interconnected, in this SINGLE "One" World "Tree", for all of us, that is the "Family Tree" Part, of 'FamilySearch'.
The "Family Tree" Part, of 'FamilySearch', is NOT like 'On-Line' "Websites" (eg. "Ancestry_com"; or "MyHeritage_com"; or, the like); and/or, 'standalone' personal (computer) programmes (eg, the OLD, now no longer supported, "PAF"; or, "Ancestral Quest"; or, the like).
We DO NOT have "Private"/"Personal" 'Trees', in the "Family Tree" Part, of 'FamilySearch', like other 'On-Line' "Websites"; and/or, 'standalone' personal (computer) programmes.
We do not even, own; or, manage; and, are NOT even responsible for, the "Deceased" individuals/persons, in "Family Tree" Part, of 'FamilySearch'.
And, most importantly ...
We DO NOT even, own; or, manage; and, are NOT even responsible for, Our OWN "Deceased" Ancestors/Family/Relatives, in the "Family Tree" Part, of 'FamilySearch'.
The "Family Tree" Part, of 'FamilySearch', is built on a "Open Edit" Platform - hence, why any "Registered" User/Patron can "Edit" (ie. Add, Delete; and/or, Change) ANY "Deceased" individual/person, in the "Family Tree" Part, of 'FamilySearch'.
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So ...
That Said ...
Due to the "Model" of, "Family Tree", of 'FamilySearch', having the ability, to provide a SINGLE "Page" (or, even, a CONTINUOUS "List"), of ALL, of one's Ancestors, in one's "Ancestral" Lines, with "Record Hints", would take up too much "System", 'Resources'; and, 'Time'.
AND ...
Secondly ...
Such, would NOT as SIMPLE; as, most People think.
There are MANY "Factors" in "Play" ...
For example ...
My "Ancestral" Lines, in 'Family Tree", of 'FamilySearch', are quite EXTENSIVE ...
MANY Years ago, when we COULD, actually "Download", our "Ancestral" Lines, in 'Family Tree", of 'FamilySearch', I once tried ...
After, about 6 to 8 Hours; and, some 200,000 individuals; and, relationships (or, it could have been x10 times that - I just cannot remember), the "Download", just FELL OVER; DIED; FAILED ...
[ And, NOTHING, NO File, was created ... ]
And, I believe such, "Slowed" the "System" down, to a "Crawl" ...
[ Hence, I believe, that my attempted "Download", was actually KILLED, by the "Programmers" ... ]
Having a CONTINUOUS "List", of ALL, of one's Ancestors, in one's "Ancestral" Lines, with "Record Hints" , WOULD be as "Resource" intensive; as, "Downloading" ...
And, would ALSO place, an unnecessary BURDEN (ie. Strain) on the "System" ...
Plus ...
That is WHY, many of the facilities, in the "Family Tree" Part, of 'FamilySearch', that offered "Continuous" Lists, HAVE subsequently been CONVERTED to individual "Pages"/"Screens".
And, hence, WHY, our "List", of "Recommended Tasks" HAS a "Limit"; and, once "Cleared", that "List" is renewed, with NEW possibilities.
Again ...
Just my thoughts.
Sorry ...
Brett
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There are three additional ways to see hints for your extended family lines besides the home page. These are the landscape pedigree, fan chart, and descendancy chart when set to show hints. Here are examples:
You can go to these views and every blue square is one or more hints.
(Currently my wife's branches are a mess. Recently the Norway Church Books database of 7 million records that was added to FamilySearch last year was processed for hints so there are a few hundred thousand new hints on her lines. Fortunately, unlike on Ancestry, all of her distant cousins who are also working in Family Tree are all working to attach each hint once to the universal, wiki-style, single tree everyone shares here.)
The reason that Ancestry can present you with a single page of everyone in your tree, is that your tree in Ancestry consists of only the few hundred or few thousand names you personally entered there. Here on FamilySearch "your tree" is the same as everyone else's tree. We are all working in the same one which consists of 1.2 billion people. So if only 1% of the people you can trace any kind of relationship to had a hint on them, that could still be a few million people. That would be quite the programming challenge to display on request without taking days to generate it or without completely crashing the system.
Early in Family Tree, people requested the View My Relationship feature over and over again. It took FamilySearch years to develop a routine the system could tolerate. The processing load is why the relationship is not calculated until you actually click the link, shows only the closest relationship instead of all of them, and is limited to looking 15 generations back and 15 generations forward to find a relationship.
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