New Feature Request: View Family Tree Info in Search
(With thanks to @Julia Szent-Györgyi for triggering these thoughts.)
Currently clicking on the pedigree icon on a search results list takes one to the full Family Tree profile page for the person the source is attached to. This occurs in the current window so one loses the search results. The icon cannot be right clicked to open the person in a new a tab or window, at least in Safari:
This makes it somewhat difficult to efficiently review a series of attached sources.
Could the Search programming team and the Landscape Pedigree programming team get together and change this search page so that clicking on the pedigree icon opens the Person side panel found in the new landscape pedigree design?
This side panel, which is scrollable and shows almost all the Family Tree profile information on a person, would be very useful here.
If the side panel could be incorporated like this, could the design of the panel be modified to include information about all the person's marriages? That would be very useful in evaluating marriage sources. Also, currently the side panel does not include Alternate Names. It would be helpful to add these so that when one finds a source for John Black attached to a Johannes Schwarz, that alternate name could be seen in the side panel.
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My only fear is that this behavior would (further) confuse people about the different parts of FamilySearch. It's basically the reverse or inverse of the Sources tool on a profile: it just flips what's on the right and what's on the left. Combined with the nearly-identical search pages for Tree and Records, it could result in new users never figuring out the difference. (Yellow versus green, right versus left: people misremember such details All The Time.)
A low(er)-investment popup summary (I can't believe I'm advocating for a popup!) might be less confusing, overall, but the behavior of that button definitely needs to change. (I have it internalized as this sort of "don't touch!" button. Bad Things Happen if you click it.)
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Good point. Maybe as they work on the next major site overhaul in a few years, FamilySearch needs to take a good look at style as communication and give a distinct look to historical record information in regards to fonts, colors, backgrounds and such and a completely different without horribly clashing distinct look to Family Tree information. Greens and blues on one then reds and oranges on the other? Serif fonts on one then sans serif on the other? I could probably come up with all sorts of horribly ugly and garish examples but I'm sure their design artists could develop nice style sheets that compliment each other but clearly convey that the two types of information have different origins.
The difference between this and the Sources tool in the Detail page is that the Detail page has one individual on the left and all the sources attached to that one person on the right. Here the left hand side contains all the tens of thousands of sources that fit the search criteria and the right hand side contains all the thousands of individuals, viewed one at a time by requesting it, to which those sources are attached. Depending on how the search was done, every time one clicks on a pedigree icon the side panel could change to a different individual.
If the search was so constrained that every result really was for the same person, then yes, it would become just another view of a person's source page.
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