Need link on login to directly open family tree
Haven't been out here for a few months so now I am lost on pull down menus. I used to see my name (I believe under Person) so I could open my tree easily. If that feature is still available , I must be missing it as I have tried several ways and I am only directed to the tree and the person I have recently opened. Where am I going wrong?
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It's FS that went wrong: they decided not to use our home people as the default home people on charts. (The blog post said something about not losing the place of someone who lost connectivity? Something like that.)
To go to your profile, click Recents and click your name. To go to a chart view (landscape, portrait, fan, descendancy) with you at the center, click Recents and click the tree-stublet after your name.
Alternately, if you are on a portrait, landscape, or fan chart for someone else, look at the top right of the screen and click the "home" button, which looks like a house.
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Thank you @Julia Szent-Györgyi ! Yet another change for the sake of change.... And the result, as stated by @MulliganDianaRuth1, is important to the future of FamilySearch: "Haven't been out here for a few months so now I am lost on pull down menus. ... Where am I going wrong?"
Why should users who have become familiar with FamilySearch suddenly have to blame themselves, thinking they "went wrong" somehow, when it was all due to an un- or poorly-announced change in FamilySearch that has little obvious value to most users?
That's an increasingly common response from users of FamilySearch that I've been hearing personally from others, and will result in people migrating away from FamilySearch as a result. Stop making changes for the sake of making changes, or at least schedule them perhaps quarterly or semiannually, with well publicized summaries of all the changes when they are made (preferably with valid reasons for making it more difficult for experienced users to find their places, and for new users to even keep track of how FamilySearch works when they're still trying to learn it).
- Chris
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