4000 Limit on Following
In practice, the following list is used to keep track of family members in which additional research is required before submitting for Temple Ordinances. For instance, you find a family on a census record and they have 5 children, each of those children have spouses, in-laws and children. In practice, those names are added to the following list so that it's possible to come back and work on that at a later time. It's impossible to do all of the research and submissions in one sitting. And the recents list become too "noisy" to be of use.
If you're doing family history on a regular basis as I do, you reach this 4000 limit fairly quickly. Right now, I am having to take pictures on my phone and then look up the ID number later to finish work on them. This is wrought with error and it's easy to miss someone.
Please consider removing or substantially increasing this limit. Since photographs are allowed, I'm assuming bandwidth and storage space are not issues.
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It's my understanding that the following list was initially created to help people monitor changes that other people make to their family. But, I don't use it for that. I use it to keep track of ancestors who have sources to attach and further research to be done that I can't get to at the moment because I am working in other lines or don't currently have time to finish. I leave myself notes about what needs to be done and put them on my following list for later so they are not forgotten.
I do family history research every day in an effort to decrease my following list, but the 4000 limit is making it really hard to keep track of the other relatives I find in the meantime. Please consider increasing the limit. Thank you.
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Melody
I believe statistics show there are more Family Tree users who are not LDS Church members than are!
In my case, I use "Following" to keep a track of changes that might be made affecting my close(r) relatives. This has included individuals of the exact same name (e.g. John Miller) who others have previously merged: sometimes, for no other reason than these IDs bearing the same name!
On the main issue you are raising, I honestly find it quite difficult to manage a list of less than 1400 individuals, as it can take me a couple of days to sort out the mess made by, say, an incorrect set of merges relating to just one family. I have been forced to reduce the number I am "following" and don't think I could cope with monitoring anything like 4000.
Still, this is a popular request from Family Tree users, so maybe it will eventually be addressed.
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