Following more than 4,000 People
I would like to follow more than 4,000 people, I work on my Italian's I have three late husband's I have children with three last names, I follow Eveland's because everyone keeps rearranging them, they are related to my last husband, I follow the Barr families, because those are my son's line and everyone wants to keep rearranging them, Rod Degulio is adding many Italian's from were my Italian's are from Castro dei Volsci, Frosinone, Italy, and I would love to follow some of them as he adds more to families, to get their Temple work done. Please allow us to follow more than 4,000 people, I had to unfollow my mother, my grandmother, which people used to move her from her husband. I just have to many people I help with their Glines and I follow all of them because people mess them up also.
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I have been married 3 times, I have children with each husband, I need to follow my children's lines, I follow a bunch of Eveland's from my last husband because people keep rearranging them, I had to unfollow my mother father and grandmother, to be able to follow other people, that I know families get messed up by other's to repair the damage, and put them back with the families they belong to, I follow Rhoads that get messed up and rearranged by others, and Meeks that also get rearranged by other's, I have to follow my Italian's, because a guy Rod Degulio is adding more and more all of the time, from where my Italian's are from, I haven't finished that line in my tree, just waiting for more to be added, and without following the lines I have I can't see when more are added. I help many people with their families, and I follow them all because people rearrange them, and I have to fix the families back to where they go. I follow every Glines, because people rearrange them and I have to constantly fix what other's keep doing to them. Please allow us to follow more than 4,000 people, because with circumstances like mine, when you have children with different last names from marriages, people just come in and rearrange the families, once or twice someone has moved my grandmother from her husband, but I had to unfollow her to add more I need to follow.
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It would be nice if part of a Family Group that Following was uniquely cumulative - if other family members are following the same person - only require one person to follow/remove duplicate follows. That way your follow limit could be multiplied by the number of people in the Family Group.
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I do not have family that does Genealogy, so it would be difficult for me to have other family members follow whom I follow. I have one daughter in Southern California, but she would not be following the same people I follow. I do Genealogy most of the day every day, and like I said I work on a lot of Families that are not mine. I am not a professional Genealogist but very close to it, I just have not become certified, So again, I work on many families. I need to follow my youngest son's line, three of my late husband's. So it is only me that works on many families, and I need to follow again repeating myself, my Italian's as they get added. I follow every Glines, because I know every Glines out there, because I worked on the Glines list when they had one on Rootsweb, I extracted all of the records for everyone on the list from New Hampshire Vital Records. I get E-mails asking for help on many families, because I used to be a Family History Ward Consultant. I need to follow more than 4,000 people, because I am the one that know the families that people come in a mess up, then I have to take hours of restoring the families where they belong.
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@Sonia Glines yes, I kind of understood your reasons for wanting an increased Following limit. I was hopefully pointing out one method of potentially doing that through developing the interaction with Family Groups. But the same idea applies to multiple accounts - if you had multiple accounts you could follow 4000 in each - maybe split by family line you are following. But you are correct - the limit would need to be raised for you to do so under one account. I wonder what the design limitations are for keeping the limit at 4000?
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I don't have multiple accounts who wants to have multiple accounts, you would have to have different names, different log ins. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and my Account log in is the same login information for the LDS website that I see other members in my church.
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@Sonia Glines I'm sorry - perhaps I should have put the generic Disclaimer: Not a FamilySearch Representative but a FamilySearch Community member responding to your Idea.
My posts here on your Idea - have been suggestions/contributions/workarounds/additions to your Idea - potential methods to increase the Following limit. Not that they may be relevant nor applicable to you. But since you are following different family lines from 3 marriages - my suggestion about multiple accounts could work - you could login under each of your married names (different name/details for each account) and follow a total of 12000 profiles for those 3 marriage relations/separate accounts. No - you don't have to like/use the idea of separate accounts.
I am also a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I have two accounts - one a ChurchofJesusChrist.org account - and the other a free public account. Both accounts are attached to me - same name, same tree. I created both accounts in October when FamilySearch announced splitting from church login credentials. Since then - they have reimplemented members logging in with their church account (as the document link above details). Sometimes I find it useful to login under a public account.
I could use the public account to follow an additional 4000 profiles - which could be uniquely different from my church member account ... Hopefully a FamilySearch representative will respond to your Idea - who knows they might increase the limit sometime soon.
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I just looked up if you can have more than one account and because I already have my church account it will not let me get to a page to create another account.
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I would like to Follow more than 4,000 People, I do a lot of Genealogy and I would like to follow many people because people are always messing up families I have to put back with the families they really belong to
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@Sonia Glines, new account creation is only available if you're not logged in.
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Thank you, I saw that when I logged in to see your comment, that you again.
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I see that, but you can't enter your Church Membership Number on Both Accounts, which then if I am following my Italians, I can't do ordinances for my dead. So that doesn't work for me, It just doesn't
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I certainly don't like the use of multiple accounts and have raised the issue elsewhere. (I can understand the "need" to have two accounts - Church and Public, however.)
I am disappointed to see your suggestion of using multiple accounts as a "workaround" to add additional IDs to ones Following list. I feel the practise of opening multiple accounts should be restricted by FamilySearch, as it is currently leading to confusion as to whom one is dealing. Even here, at least one regular contributor is using two names, which can easily give the impression that two separate people are putting forward the same idea!
Allowing users to hold multiple accounts has been shown to lead to more difficulty in controlling abuse of the system, as well as personal abuse. If I am missing some positive advantages of holding multiple accounts (apart from being able to increase the number of IDs I am Following) please advise.
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Please stop, All you have said has not been important, first you tell me to create another account, now you talk about that it shouldn't be allowed. Your comments just need to stop, Please
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@Sonia Glines ? You made a public post to Community Ideas - which invites responses. The comments may be important to others seeing the Idea (perhaps not what you were wanting though). What are you wanting? FamilySearch representative response and immediate increase of your Following limit?
If my addition to your Idea - of adding another account to a Family Group - allowed the Following feature to additively increase following amongst that Family Group - then that would make multiple accounts important to you. Just add that other account to a Family Group - and bang - Following increased. But for an Idea to move to reality - it has to be discussed. I am sorry you do not want discussion on your Idea.
You can be assured that FamilySearch will consider your Idea to increase the amount of people you Follow. As mentioned above - wait for their response and hopefully they will increase the limit for you.
I am disappointed to see your suggestion of using multiple accounts as a "workaround" to add additional IDs to ones Following list. I feel the practise of opening multiple accounts should be restricted by FamilySearch, as it is currently leading to confusion as to whom one is dealing.
I am sorry you are disappointed at me for suggesting a work-around to Follow more profiles. Though with the Following limit set there is little else to suggest to a person wanting to Follow more currently... You can be assured that Following profiles is certainly not abusive behavior in Family Tree. I agree that people should not hide behind multiple accounts to make tracking contributions/collaboration difficult. FamilySearch has recently increased/tightened some of its account security (thus the security error problems we have been seeing recently). I did notice your other post - I am sorry you have experienced the non-collaborative aspect of FamilySearch Family Tree open-edit structure. I am sure it is a chore to prevent rogue accounts from abuse/destruction in Tree due to its open-edit structure. Users should submit suspicious/abusive/destructive Tree activities to FamilySearch. Because of the open-edit structure though - it could be difficult to determine destructive vs. mistake. I have long contributed Ideas to restrict Family Tree open-edit structure - especially for near-relation profiles - that one knows are currently entered correctly and thus needlessly remain open-edit. But that is the structure we are dealing with - hopefully some Ideas will be considered and changes to further impede destructive/abusive activities will be implemented and thereby such activity curtailed (hopefully Alert Note will take care of it ... it would be interesting to track the changes...) . I guess we can all be glad logs can be investigated by FamilySearch and they can take appropriate action to remove such accounts and hopefully those logged changes from the Tree - if Change Log features are insufficient for non-abusive accounts to change abusive changes back... With some of the Record/index occurrences you have to wonder if hackers rather than AI automated processes are not the cause ... or perhaps hackers using AI automated processes...
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Stop, Please.......Or I will report you
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@Sonia Glines ? Again, I think you misunderstand the purpose of Community. But if you must report go ahead - report away.
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Thank you for your enhancement request. We will let the engineers know. In summary,
You want to expand a users ability to follow profiles beyond the current 4,000 people limit in order to:
- Minimize the number of inaccurate changes being made to your children's lines.
- Minimize the number of inaccurate changes made to the lines of the many people whom you have helped.
- Maximize the likelihood of identifying new temple work.
We encourage all kinds of polite conversations around the feedback given by users. It adds additional insights and constructive discussion around the problems users are attempting to solve.
Sometimes work arounds shared by others can be very helpful. We do however discourage any work around that might conflict with FamilySearch's policies. We will make sure this information is shared with the appropriate team.
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Thank you So very much, so appreciated
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