Continous format changes
Please help. I know how busy you are. Unfortunately, I didn't save the original copy of my trees by family name. I had no idea the formatting was going to change within an hour. I understand why some things were changed to try and help everyone have the same format, typefaces etc. However, I was working on family trees for the Firebaughs and Darby families. I was able to print 2 trees. However, I was not able to go back to the Darby tree and enter a new name an hour later. Names were only printing in descending order. The trees are a quick reference to see where one comes from, and if others are related to you.
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Please advise.
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I'm afraid I can't make heads or tails of your question(s).
First: whom do you believe yourself to be addressing? You posted in FamilySearch's community forum; while there are a few FS employees who read things here, the vast majority of us are just fellow users of FS.
Second: are you certain you're talking about something from FamilySearch? I ask because of your repeated use of the word "trees", in plural, which really doesn't apply to anything but a very small niche of FS's offerings (namely, the public cloud storage for genealogy files found in Genealogies). The (vastly) larger part of the site is the single, collaborative and open-edit Family Tree, in which none of us have individual trees.
Third: could you please describe in more detail what exactly it is that you're attempting to print? Perhaps a URL or screenshot would help us figure out what part of this vast sprawl you're in.
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And if, by chance, you are talking about the FamilySearch tree, you can see your recent activity at your Recents tab or your Contributions list. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/contributions/changes
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"Under Community - Get help from other users and our support staff in our community forum."
Yes, I am new to this site. I'm sorry for my miscommunications. I was on Family Search from 10 pm until 2 am yesterday/this morning. I lose track of time when I'm trying to finish a task. I was able to print out family trees fine until about 1 a.m.(?) or until they changed the format. I have 15 generations in the Darby trees. I have other family members that go back to the 1490s. The tree use to show your relatives' names and you could go forward or backward in years. Example: John Darby, 1638 to 1725, i.d. #; and ending with Lester Andreotti, 1949-2012, i.d.#. You could look at only a few pages and see your relatives. Children were also listed. Saved a lot of time to help others, paper and yourself. I will not be able to share printed copies any more with other family members. Have you never shared looking up family members using Family Search trees. I am so disappointed they changed this format. I will no longer be able to share with family members.
I love it when Family Search sends you a name and you can see what relationship they are to you. I received a name from them that takes me back to the 1800s. I'm truly thankful for this. Fantastic!
Relatives - Have you ever wondered what relationship you have with a relative? You use to be able to track a relative such as John Darby down to you. All you have to do is ask how you were related. You would see how many generations were involved and what your relationship is. Now you end up going to a very small screen, snip it, and do cut and paste, or copy it several times into another document. You can't read the spouse's name and i.d. unless you really enlarge the copy. This site is a lost of time and not convenient. So disappointed.
Thanks for listening. Please share information if there is another way of doing this.
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@maryalineandreotti1, I still haven't a clue what you're trying to do, but nothing has changed about the format and programming on FS's Family Tree in the past month at least.
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I'm sorry, it's still unclear which trees of all the possibilities on the website you are referring to. Could you post a screen shot of what you used to see and what you now see?
In your last paragraph it sounds like you are talking about the View My Relationship function. The old pop up was never very easy to print. The new on which has been in place for months. It does try to show you the entire linage and if the relationship is very far back you do need to zoom in to read the information.
For example, here is a John Darby (don't know if he is the one you are referring to) and his relationship to me:
Yes, there is far too much information here to read on a single page. But I can zoom in:
I don't think there has ever been any way to print this page so all you can do is set the size to a good spot, take multiple screen shots, and stitch them together.
But this does not sound like what you are talking about in the first paragraph.
Did you get shifted from the old landscape pedigree to the new landscape pedigree? Both are available currently and you use the link in the upper right to switch between them:
Or do you mean the fan chart pedigree? Or one of the others?
Again, please explain precisely where you are and what change. Pictures and URLs are really the best way to do this.
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