List of only my names, please
please make it so i can easily find a name that is already in my family records. sometimes a name pops into my head when i'm thinking about doing genealogy. i think it could be God or the person themselves telling me to work on their temple work/genealogy (they're in my family records but have not had ordinances done or their child hasn't). So i open up familysearch and cannot find them, even though i know they are on my family tree somewhere. The last couple of times i was able to find them bc a familysearch worker showed me how to narrow it down a little bit, but it would be nice if only my name within my group of family names came up because it would save me time. So, if you want an example of how this might be done, look at the old PAF (Personal ancestry file?). I loved this feature that it had. You could go to a list within PAF and see every name in your personal records. They were in alphabetical order. Each one had a number on it. Ex.
1Betty Cragun
557 Sue Craft
6 John Craper
The last names might have been listed first? But i remember they were in alphabetical order like this. The number i think indicated in what order they had been added to your records. Not saying the number is necessary. Or helpful. But I did love that I could look at all 527 names in "MY" group all at once. It was helpful. Felt easier to find a name that popped into my head rather than look through 50 names of "Sue Craft" to find the one related to me.
I'm sorry some people don't trust you. I know yall are doing SO much work. It's sad when some people don't appreciate that your giving your lives and souls to this. THANKS for all you do.
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Today, that function is served by personal genealogy software and on sites such as Ancestry.com.
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Thank you for your feedback, I have captured your for the engineers to look at. Lauralee
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@Sherrie33 I have noticed a few discussions of late wanting to search only ancestors/relations in FamilySearch Family Tree. Using a locally installed third-party tree-synch capable tree management solution on your computer as @dontiknowyou mentions is one way to be able to build and manage such a tree. Ancestral Quest is the current software that PAF used to be.
But many of these discussions are requesting a way to search only relations be built into FamilySearch. Besides the generic Find - which searches the entire one-world Tree (quite efficiently but returns all hits not only relations) - with some effort (perhaps it could be a project over a few months) you can build a Following list (up to 4000 people), add labels to help you sort it and search/filter that list.
Here is the Help Center document on Following:
Building the list can be done fairly easily by alternating through the Fan Chart/Descendancy tree views by selecting the names of your near relations - then clicking the Star icon on the profile card for those you want to Follow.
Once you have filled out your Following list you can sort/search that list for those persons/relations you have added.
Hope that helps some (at least 4000 worth).
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