Highlight Direct Relative
It would be great if on a person's page my direct relative is highlighted somehow. I am a Stake temple and family history consultant and so I train a lot of people and also help a lot of members with their trees. I find that most members do not know who their direct relative is once they get beyond about 4 -5 generations. So it would be great if on a person's page where the children are listed that somehow my direct relative is highlighted so that I can easily move through my direct generations or go back to my direct line if I have been working on my branches. As a consultant it would be great if we could easily see who the direct line runs through.
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Just what I came on to add. I couldn't have explained it better. Needs to be an arrow for the direct relative.
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An Easy way to see the direct ancestry that is available now is to click view my relationship.
On the relationship viewer graphic the names are links, so just click to go that person
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I was about to say the same thing as Jessie. Although I'm not a FS employee, from my own past experience, I know that implementing such a thing would actually be much more problematic than seems obvious at first glance. For example, this thing would have to run in real time so that the direct relations can be highlighted. The current "View my relationship" button can run batch without eating up a lot of computer time.
Another thing is that many people have experiences where they are descendants of their own cousins. And this is not because of any illegitimacy in the lines. It is just that your ancestry lines can come into a family via multiple children. All of these possible permutations need to be addressed by such a tool. Doing that in real time is computationally expensive. In fact, I suspect that even the "View my relationship" tool will not show those multiple lines even when they are the same generational distance from you. It probably just shows the FIRST of the shortest paths that it finds.
So since it is such a problematic solution and since we already have the "View my Relationship" button, I suspect that FS will have little interest in adding such a feature.
BTW, I don't know of any other programs that do this. I do know that some of them will highlight a child's name if you navigated to the parents via that child. That is useful, but a bit different than what was asked for here.
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What is your definition of "direct relative"; do you mean:
a) all ancestors
b) all descendants
c) all persons with a blood relationship (ancestors, descendants, siblings, cousins, etc)
d) some combination of the above
e) something else entirely?
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Thanks for your comments.
I am talking about your direct line only so your father, grandfather, g grandfather, etc. So if you are 200 years down the track and you want to know who is the child that I belong to I can easily see. I know we have view my relationship, but it would make it much more user friendly if it was highlighted or marked in some way. Just a thought to make it easier for those new to family history.
Rootsmagic allows you to highlight the direct lines in your family and it is a very useful tool.
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I have cousins that are capitalizing the names of their direct ancestors. This makes it so they can come back down the tree as it branches to many children each generation. But this is making a mess of the tree and is for only their line, not mine or others. It would be a very useful improvement to Family Tree and benefit everyone and stop the capitalizing and lower casing and capitalizing again and again.
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Rocky
I am just another 'lowly' User/Patron ...
I, 'hear 'what you are saying; and, I totally understand where you are coming from ...
But ...
That Said ...
A couple of things ...
'FamilySearch' cannot STOP Users/Patrons making ANY "Changes" to an individual's/person's "Name".
That, is a consequence, of the "Open Edit" nature, of the SINGLE "One" World "Tree", for all of us, that is "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.
Of course, there are guidelines, for how to enter "Names", in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch':
[ "Knowledge Article" ... ]
How should I enter names in Family Tree?
https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-to-enter-names-in-family-tree
Where it states, among other things:
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Enter the correct version of the name in the Vitals section
- Capitalization—Use normal capitalization.
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But, they are ONLY, guidelines; and, are in no way enforced.
The only real avenue, available to you, with your Cousins, is "Collaboration"; and, to just keep "Changing" the "Names", back to what they SHOULD be, without the (Total) Capitalization.
Just my thoughts.
Brett
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@NielsenRockyKent for what your cousins want to do, the labels in the Following tool are super useful. Following is per account, so they would need to all label the same person pages the same way, or share an account.
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@dianehooper the Puzzilla.org partner tree viewer can paint such a line through a tree. The tree is read from Family Tree.
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