A timeline tab

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Eric said: A timeline is a useful organizing tool to understand the people's lives. It would be wonderful if familysearch had an additional tab, in addition to 'Details' and 'Memories', called 'Timeline'. This tab would have each person's information sorted by date from birth to death. Items from 'Details' and 'Memories' could be intermixed - showing age appropriate photos along with documents, stories and addresses. Perhaps there is a better way to show this information. Currently I have to switch between Memories and Details. And in Details I have to scan down 'Other Information' between names, residences, military and immigration information.

Thanks again for creating such a useful platform.

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Tom Huber said: I am sure that would have to open a new window and require a lot of coding, especially to include the sources. Ancestry's organization for a person follows the timeline idea and is very useful with respect to linking all events with their respective sources.

At this point, I find a person's details page lacking in at least one major area. Source tagging. Presently it is limited to "Vital Information" conclusions. Ancestry includes all conclusions.

This will have to be expanded (something that has been repeatedly asked for) before a timeline will be truly useful, in my opinion. An interim timeline that does not include references to sources could be created in the meantime until a better source tagging feature is introduced.

Another area that needs to be improved is the couple relationship area, which currently is limited to marriage, divorce, annulment, etc. It also needs to be expanded to include a "Vital Information" section and an "Other Information" section for the couple. Included could be a section for stories and memories. There is a lot of development that needs to be done in this area, as well.

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Kathryn Grant said: And now we have it! Thanks, FamilySearch!

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Chas Howell said: Would like to have the option to sort in descending or ascending order.

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Tom Huber said: There are several issues that have been raised with the time line tool. See https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea... and https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea... which are now in the unresolved issues related to the roll out of a couple of months ago at https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...

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Kathryn Grant said: Thanks, Tom! That's very helpful.

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Brian Zurita said: So...are there any plans to incorporate memories into the timeline? It seems to me that this would help to make an even more complete picture of an individual's life, and since the documents, stories, and photos already have date and place fields associated with them, it seems that it would be relatively easy to add these items into the timeline.