Idea: Tree draft mode
Hi! It would be amazing to have an interface that allows for trying out certain relationships and sources without affecting the actual tree. It can be difficult when working on a complex problem to retain everything in my head or on a spreadsheet. Being able to visualize it through family search's website would be immensely helpful!
It would be something like this:
There would be a setting for "draft mode" at the top of all the tree pages. While enabled, any changes you made would be faded, and wouldn't affect the actual tree. When turned off, the draft would disappear.
This way you can safely visualize what all the relationships would look like, without disturbing the existing effort!
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You can do this now, to a degree, on FamilySearch's Beta site at:
beta.familysearch.org
Sign in with your usual FamilySearch account. Play around all you want since it does not affect the actual Family Tree. Not all features work fully but should for what you want to do. Every so often, I'm not sure how often, they copy all of the current Family Tree into the beta site, wiping out all the experimentation. This does mean that depending on the last time they updated beta, the information you see there could be several months out of date.
Another fun thing at the beta site, is that this is the last stopping point for new features before they are put into production so sometimes you get to play around with these before they are actually released.
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You can do this now, to a degree, on FamilySearch's Beta site at:
beta.familysearch.org
Sign in with your usual FamilySearch account. Play around all you want since it does not affect the actual Family Tree. Not all features work fully but should for what you want to do. Every so often, I'm not sure how often, they copy all of the current Family Tree into the beta site, wiping out all the experimentation. This does mean that depending on the last time they updated beta, the information you see there could be several months out of date.
Another fun thing at the beta site, is that this is the last stopping point for new features before they are put into production so sometimes you get to play around with these before they are actually released.
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I haven't used the beta version for a while, but I assume the situation is unchanged in that you cannot be logged into both beta and production versions at the same time. If I have needed to do this, I've found the workaround to be to use different browsers for each.
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I haven't used the beta version for a while, but I assume the situation is unchanged in that you cannot be logged into both beta and production versions at the same time. If I have needed to do this, I've found the workaround to be to use different browsers for each.
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For several reasons, I got into the habit of using different browsers for Production and Beta - I have a vague feeling that signing into Production, then Beta, then trying to get into Production again, meant that I had to log in again. Using Firefox for Production and Chrome for beta solved both the need for repeated logins, and seeing both sites at once.
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For several reasons, I got into the habit of using different browsers for Production and Beta - I have a vague feeling that signing into Production, then Beta, then trying to get into Production again, meant that I had to log in again. Using Firefox for Production and Chrome for beta solved both the need for repeated logins, and seeing both sites at once.
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don't forget that a free version of Ancestral Quest will let you pick a chunk out of the FamilySearch FamilyTree and download the ENTIRE thing (including sources, notes, etc.) into a local database on your PC or Mac where you can play around all you like and then just throw the file away when you are done with it.
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don't forget that a free version of Ancestral Quest will let you pick a chunk out of the FamilySearch FamilyTree and download the ENTIRE thing (including sources, notes, etc.) into a local database on your PC or Mac where you can play around all you like and then just throw the file away when you are done with it.
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While beta is a sandbox, one of the useful features is that for the most part the ID's for individuals remain the same so it is very easy to construct the type of potential relationships the original poster is talking about.
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While beta is a sandbox, one of the useful features is that for the most part the ID's for individuals remain the same so it is very easy to construct the type of potential relationships the original poster is talking about.
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Thank you! I will definitely check out Family Search beta!
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Thank you! I will definitely check out Family Search beta!
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