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Difficult to use Find, to find a close person in my tree

David_B_Putman
David_B_Putman ✭
August 15, 2022 edited August 15, 2022 in Family Tree

The old days were simple, being able to search for a person only in the records I created in my own tree. Today I was trying to find the wife of one of my grandfather's many cousins. I could not remember which cousin she was married to. Creating one gigantic family tree as Family Search has done was a wonderful idea but it comes with a new set of problems. When I used the find option and enter the name it came back with 245 results in the world tree. A desire to make a simple update suddenly became painful. I finally went to Ancestry.com, found the person, then came back to Family Search. Based on this experience I recommend that the Find option include a sort capability to organize the results according to the closeness of the "found" person to the home person of the user's tree.

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  • Graham Buckell
    Graham Buckell mod
    August 15, 2022 edited August 15, 2022

    @David_B_Putman

    Good idea. Another reason to maintain a copy of your tree elsewhere such as Ancestry.

    Rather than posting this as a general question, it would be better to put it in the Suggest an Idea category.

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    Unfortunately I am unable to transfer it.

    Regards

    Graham Buckell

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 15, 2022 edited August 15, 2022

    @David_B_Putman

    If you have added, connected, or edited the profile, you can quickly find the person from the "My Contributions" tab.

    Once you are at the "My Contributions" page, you can search by the name - even part of the name. That way, you are searching a much smaller subset of the FSFT.

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  • David_B_Putman
    David_B_Putman ✭
    August 15, 2022

    Mr, Buckell, thanks for the note, but as I try to follow the family search links the suggest an idea keeps bringing me back here.

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  • Graham Buckell
    Graham Buckell mod
    August 16, 2022 edited August 16, 2022

    Suggest an Idea is a separate category within Community

    If you click there you will see

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    Click on the blue button on the right to create a new post in that category.

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  • David_B_Putman
    David_B_Putman ✭
    August 16, 2022 edited August 16, 2022

    I will need to try using my Windows laptop. My Community Support Page view with my iPad is missing the right frame, and those options do not appear lower on the page.

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