Search or find a name within my tree.
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Shauna Rae Foliaki said: I would love to have a way to search within my pedigree tree by name only and not id number. It would make searching for my family so much easier than having to go out into the whole wide world.
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Kathryn Grant said: Often people respond to a suggestion like this by saying, "There's no such thing as 'my tree' in Family Tree--it's all one big tree." While that's true, I agree with Shauna, and there is a way to do it: give users a way to specify that they only want to search within certain names related closely to them--i.e., only all direct line ancestors back x number of generations, or all descendants of a direct-line ancestor.
That would really be helpful!0 -
Christopher Allen Young said: I do think it would be helpful but this kind of search will be slower.
I also think we should be able to select a different start person and limit it to 4-5 generations at a time.0 -
Shauna Rae Foliaki said: It should be doable. It is in Ancestry. I almost prefer Ancestry because it is so much easier to navigate when searching a specific name in your own tree.0
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Chas Howell said: You are dealing with a much smaller tree with Ancestry compared to the much larger set of individuals on FSFT. No reason to give up your tree and tools in Ancestry. FSFT is just a different model with different benefits and restrictions. Use whichever tool works best for teach situation.0
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Tom Huber said: Agreed, Chas. I use both Ancestry and FamilySearch. My initial work is all done in Ancestry because the index corrections/additions are also searched. FamilySearch, of course, has never given index corrections any priority and only now is considering what such a correction feature may look like. Ron Tanner showed a mockup in his RootsTech slides.
Everything boils down to an independent local database and a separate family tree management program. I simply do not trust FamilySearch to not be impacted (no matter what I do) by inexperienced users, so the separate database allows me to keep at least one set up to date. And because the local program is fully certified, I can use it to keep the FamilySearch tree correct if someone changes it. Or, if the change is beneficial and complete with sources and reason statements, I can change my local database.0 -
Orisela Thomas said: I would like to SEARCH within the tree I am working on. Sometimes I can't remember the person's name and want to search all the men named "Blas" or I want to go directly to a relative without having to remember all of the branches I need to hop to get there.0
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Juli said: Some suggestions:
1. For finding an ancestor (as opposed to just a relative) to jump to, use one of the tree views. I find the fan chart to be easiest to use.
2. To return to someone you worked on recently, use the Recents list.
3. Put key relatives on your watch list.
4. Maintain an offline tree as a backup, and as a means of searching only a limited set of profiles. If you use one of the FS-sync-able programs from the Solutions Gallery, you don't even need to retype what's already up on FS.0