Add Virtual Pedigree Icon to Ladnscape View, Add Family History Guide Icon also.

LegacyUser

Larron Campbell said: When on the Landscape View with the ICONS for home, center... could we add an icon to connect us to the Virtual Pedigree in an additional tab so we could go back and forth between the two sites in Landscape View.

Add another ICON to open a new tab to the Family History Guide "Learn"

LegacyUser

Juli said: I don't know what you mean by "Virtual Pedigree". Is this on some sort of partner site?

I know for certain that the Family History Guide is not a FamilySearch product, so there will not (and should not) be an icon/button for it on FS.

LegacyUser

Paul said: I think Larron is referring to having links to https://virtual-pedigree.fhtl.byu.edu...

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: First, realize that FamilySearch will not promote any external site through links.

The request to link to The Family History Guide has been made before and as it is not a FamilySearch project, no link will appear on the site, other than in the Solutions Gallery.

The same applies to any other external site. The only place where a link to another site is used is with the specific pages (such as in the source linker or an expanded source on a person's source page) where the user is warned that the link will take them to a different site.

LegacyUser

Paul said: Tom

I believe the logic of Larron's request is related to two facts. Firstly, if there is a direct sign-in link from the Virtual Pedigree website to FamilySearch, why not vice versa? Secondly, both websites are (presumably) operated under the auspices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - or is BYU a completely separate entity?

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: The same could be said with Relative Finder (from BYU Labs). External sites that connect to the user's data in FamilySearch are (as far as I know) dependent upon the user providing their credentials from the external site.

It does not seem to matter that both the University and FamilySearch are part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

They are being treated as separate (for the purpose of access) entities, even if they use a common sign-in process.

This is true of the main Church site (https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/?...) and FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/)