View/Search Upcoming Birthdays in my Family Tree (in advance, rather than day-of notification)

LegacyUser

Drew Hooper said: FamilySearch team,

Idea: To build a functionality to view upcoming birth days (I know I receive notifications on particular days; it would be of interest to search on specific days and see who of my direct ancestors, or to a pre-specified degree, were born on that day of the year). The birthday notices make excellent reminders for bringing FamilySearch into daily conversation. Might this be feasible?

Also - I am delighted to see the updates making our ancestors' stories and lives more relevant to us, as well as tools for recording our own living memories, testimonies, and legacies.

Hoping so, and again thanks!
Drew

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: Welcome to the community support forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We all share an active interest in using the resources of this site and as users, we have various levels of knowledge and experience and do our best to help each other with concerns, issues, and/or questions.

I do not know if you are aware of this or not, but there are no "my" tree is FamilySearch FamilyTree. It is all one tree whose goal is to have one record for each person who has lived as part of the family of mankind. There are duplicates, to be sure, but those eventually should be merged so that only one record for each person will remain.

There are several family tree management programs (Ancestral Quest, Legacy, and RootsMagic) that have free versions that can download all the ancestors and/or descendants of a person. I'm not sure about the reporting capabilities of the free versions, but the paid versions (of Ancestral Quest, which I use) can sort name lists by various parameters and should be able to produce what you are wanting for.

As far as the FamilySearch tree goes, right now you cannot separate your branches of the tree for that purpose, but don't give up hope. New features are being developed which may have that ability. No list of upcoming features is provided or a release date.