Appreciation for Time Line. How to make suggestions?
The Time Line is very much appreciated.
I have a suggestion and a request.
1) it would be great to have the Time Line show events of local interest (by continent, country, province and locality). For anyone in South West Colombia, the end of slavery was a very important event. The lady that this Time Line comes from, https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/timeline/LRH1-WGH , certainly had slaves in 1841, according to her will. Her surviving children owned slaves for the next decade. Slavery (and its end) is perhaps the most important key to understand the history of this family. (The Treaty of Bucharest, on the other hand...)
2) The date of the end of slavery matters a lot: in Colombia, slavery was not abolished in 1835. Laws on Freedom of Wombs were approved in the 1820s, but total emancipation was decreed in 1851. As a request, please change the date.
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@JuanZuluaga3 There is a Suggest an Idea section https://community.familysearch.org/en/categories/suggest-an-idea There have been a few threads commenting on the very generic and sometimes inappropriate historical events included in the TimeLine. Personally, I don't even look at that page.
As an aside, the same issues arose when another genealogy website included historical events in their version of a timeline. For post-Civil War USA, my former slave owner ancestors were shown as former slaves, serving in a chain gang. For World War II military service, my mother was referred to as "he" because the writer of the formula hadn't considered that women would serve in the military.
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