email notifications for notifications to ancestors.

AHWalter1989

I'm responding because I feel like my feedback on this change is very important to Familysearch being as accurate as possible. Not only stopping email notifications for changes to ancestors but dropping notifications for changes made to them after sixty days is a terrible decision because it is only going to help increase errors on the family trees for ancestors that individuals have put a lot of work into. I personally have gone several months without being on Familysearch and evidently based on what you explained to me I never knew changes were made to ancestors because I went more than sixty days without being on Familysearch and they dropped off my notification list. Further, even if someone gets on after sixty days if they are following a lot of ancestors or individuals they will most likely not see all the changes made because of the long list they have. All this change is doing is guaranteeing people won't know important changes have been made to ancestors they've put a lot of work into which isn't fair to them. For the sake of accuracy on Familysearch you NEED to bring email notifications back.

MrsLCJ

agreed

Gail Swihart Watson

I would like this very much!!

Alan E. Brown

@AHWalter1989 I don't understand what the problem is here.

Yes, it's true that the Notifications list is pruned so that you only have 60 days worth of notifications about changes to people you are following. But that is simply a notification -- it's not your only way to see changes to people that you are following. You can always go to https://www.familysearch.org/tree/following/ to see a much longer list of changes, and one of the display options is to view all changes, sorting by date changed. Or you can view the changes by person, if that's more helpful.

And I don't understand your reference to "stopping email notifications for changes to ancestors" -- I've never gone 60 days without signing in to FamilySearch, but I get email notifications for changes to ancestors every week. These emails simply tell me that I have notifications; they don't give me any details about the specific notification. But I can go to my notifications (either via the button in that email, or by signing in to FamilySearch and clicking on the bell icon and see at least 60 days of notifications about changes to people I follow, and as I explained above, I can go to the Following list for more than that.

I have some empathy for you if you go "several months without being on FamilySearch" -- the amount of work that would pile up in that time could be daunting. And if you wait too long, some changes might even fall off the Following list (I see 8 months of changes there, but can't see further back -- I don't know if that is because of some numerical limit or a time limit). All I can recommend is that you don't wait too long before coming back so that the changes to be reviewed are not too overwhelming.