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Viewing family members on an individual page

bisaacs90
bisaacs90 ✭
May 13, 2022 in Suggest an Idea

I was just thinking it might be handy to have a three column view of a person's family, when that person has married. You see the highlighted family member, their spouse, and children on one column and that highlighted person's parents on a second column. Why not a third column with the spouse's family on the other side? Just thinking it would save me clicks when I'm trying to understand a family.

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  • Paul W
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    May 13, 2022

    @bisaacs90

    On the individual's ("person") page in Family Tree there is already the provision to view the next (earlier) generation. For a wider view, just switch to "View Tree", whereby you do have the ability to view an extended family branch. Please explain how the existing option of charts (centred on an individual) is not suiting your needs.

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 13, 2022 edited May 13, 2022

    If I am understanding correctly, what @bisaacs90 would find helpful is this:

    Screen Shot 2022-05-13 at 6.06.18 AM.png

    An intriguing idea.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
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    May 13, 2022

    As Gordon said, an intriguing idea, but I'm afraid it'd be too confusing. People already get confused by the Family Members section -- there was a recent thread here about a "duplicate person with the same ID" -- and adding another column, with a different person highlighted than in the other two, or actually potentially multiple different people highlighted (in case of multiple marriages), would not clarify things at all.

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