Quick ancestor search in my tree

Glen Little

When coming to the site, on the home page, I want to quickly and easily go to a person that I already know is an ancestor in my tree. I don't want an advanced search to find hundreds of people with the same name... just the person in my tree.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

From the home page, you have several options.

Click Recents, then your own name or the name on a profile you've recently looked at to go to that profile's Details page.

Or, Click Recents, then the tree-stublet icon to the right of a name to go to a tree (chart) view centered on that person. The type of chart (landscape or portrait pedigree, fan, descendancy, first ancestor) will be whatever type you used last; you can change it by clicking the drop-down and choosing a different type, and you can adjust the settings using the Options button (which is meant to look like sliders on an old-fashioned sound system).

On any page on the main FS site, click the Family Tree option in the top menu and choose Tree for another way to go to a chart view centered on yourself.

Or, click the Family Tree option in the top menu and choose My Contributions to see a list of edits you've made to the collaborative Tree. You can search the list by name.

Gail Swihart Watson

The best way I use to quickly go to a person I know is on my tree is to open up the pedigree view of my tree and expand the appropriate branch. It literally takes 5 seconds and then I am there.