I love the Private Persons list in "My Contributions"

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Christina Sachs Wagner said: This feature on the app is so handy for going back to revisit people who may have passed since entering them as living. Will this become available on the web version?

It's also fun to see "My Contributions" stats.

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Tom Huber said: I am in hopes that this feature will become standard for the web-based version.

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Lyle Toronto said: Looks like it is on it's way in beta.
https://beta.familysearch.org/tree/co...
https://beta.familysearch.org/tree/co...

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Christina Sachs Wagner said: Yay!

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Tom Huber said: Oh, but wow. What a feature. Hopefully, it will be introduced to production soon.

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Todd Powell said: Christina, thank you SO much for your response and letting us know of your experience. I have shared your response with the mobile and tree development teams who are the ones responsible for the work behind it. and yes the web version is almost completed. It is always good to know that users are having those experiences we hope they will have as we design and build them.

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Christina Sachs Wagner said: It's a great addition and I'm anxious to see it on the web version! Thanks YOU so much!

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Robert Wren said: Todd,

My Contributions is an 'interesting" compilation. Could you also add a summary of "merges" completed?

To make the stats a little more 'usable' & helpful:

Perhaps they could be used to promote some desired results (quality) rather than simply numbers. (quantity)

How about adding the overall statistics for the "average user"

Or a suggestion the the ratio of Sources added to Persons added should be a multiple of 5 to 10 to complete the goals of accurate records?

Or the stats on how many sources/memories/notes/discussions an average PID has- perhaps a blog post?

I hope you've also seen the comments in other topics:

https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...

https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...

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Paul said: Since the above posts (of 3 months ago), the feature HAS been added to the web version, of course. I was about to raise a new topic about it, but decided to post here.

I, too, am finding the Private People list to be of great help. Unlike many users, I have added very few Living persons (and nobody of my parents' generation - dead or alive!) to Family Tree, as I prefer to keep records of these on my private databases. However, I sometimes do add individuals born up to (say) 1920, especially if they are of the same "generation" as my grandparents (i.e. have siblings born up to 20-30 years earlier).

Over the last few days, this list has enabled me to review the status of my "living", distant relatives and has helped me concentrate on searching for their (probable) deaths. It has indirectly encouraged me to look a little further afield (to Australia, actually) and get some "positive" results from, in this case, the "official" New South Wales BMD index website.

Apart from this, I have managed (following advice given on this forum) to get Support to removed a DECEASED person from my Private People list. Apparently, the fact he was buried in Egypt flagged-up a privacy concern, but after I reported he had died in active service during WWII he was restored to the public section of FT.

I probably don't express my gratitude enough, but do remain grateful for the opportunity FamilySearch has given me (with new features and old) to research my family branches and add so many individuals to "my tree" - if you'll excuse the expression!