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NEW FEATURE: Search Records & attach from a CET

Robert Kehrer — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:56:02 +0000

You can now click the website icons in the right side bar of a person page. If you click the FamilySearch logo, the system will conduct a record search of all FamilySearch indexed source records and present you with a set of search results, which you can iterate on in the right side bar search form as needed.

Clicking the little person icon on the right side of each search results will launch the SourceLinker and allow you to attach the record personas in that record to the searched for individual in your CET and to each of the corresponding tree persons around in that individual who are in the record.

Enjoy, and let us know if you encounter anything unexpected or which could be improved.

NEW FEATURE: Search a CET Enabled

Robert Kehrer — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:51:24 +0000

The ability to search your CET for persons using a full search system with all fields and parameters has been enabled. Click the "Find" menu and you will be taken to the Search form where you can conduct a search of your tree. You will get search results only from the specific CET that you are in. Clicking on a search result will let you jump either to the person page or the tree view for that individual.

Please try it out and let un know of any problems you find.

NEW FEATURE: Record Hinting Enabled in CET

Robert Kehrer — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:45:41 +0000

Record Hinting, with all its delightful little blue icons on the tree views and the ability to attach records via SourceLinker, has been turned on for CET. Please try it out, have fun and let us know of any problems you find.

Note: Please be aware that because CET are completely separate tree collections from the Family Tree collection of tree data attachments in one tree are unrelated to attachments in any other tree. IOW: The persona of Howard Allor in the U.S. 1950 Census may be attached to the PID for Howard Allor in my CET -and- to the PID for Howard Allor in the Family Tree, and these attachments have no bearing on each other.

NEW FEATURE: Fan Chart View Enabled

Robert Kehrer — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:14:07 +0000

All,
The Fan Chart tree view, which until recently has been greyed out with (Coming Soon) after it in the top right menu, is now delivered and fully functional in CET.
Please try it out and let us know if you discover any problems.

Robert Kehrer, sr product mgr, familysearch

Bug: Selecting a Starting Person

Emilio–FSL — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:39:45 +0000

After uploading a new tree, I went to select a starting person before entering the tree and it brought up the person list from a previous tree. I searched people in the actual tree and there were no results. I will try to add screenshots. Here is my URL: https://www.familysearch.org/groups/researcher/9MMQ-T33/details

It won't let me add the images. I will send them to someone on the development team. Thanks

Requests and Enhancements

Stephanie V. — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:11:39 +0000

Requests:
Community Post Link	Original Post Date
Ability to mark a specific deceased person in your CET as private even if your CET is Public. This will allow this person to be properly researched and sources before allowing others to view. NOTE: Collaborators who are invited to your tree can still see the private person
Ability to mark individual in tree as private based on number of sources	23-Apr-2024
Ancestry events/facts contain more than date/location and that information was uploaded to "notes" on the person page instead of attached to the event	12-Mar-25
CET and researching as you go - attaching sources	20-Mar-25
CET is backdoor way of changing FT. Tree2Tree will help	26-May-24
CET Overview video not yet supported - link is to Family Groups Overview	24-May-24
Change log option only featuring PID name and number	11-Jul-24
Click on name to resolve imported tree differences	29-Apr-24
enhancement: assign individual tasks to specific individuals in the tree	15-Mar-25
Errors list needs to be accessed from person page also	29-Apr-24
FT CET confusion when selecting "Possible Match Found"	15-Mar-24
In the future will users be able to upload a GEDCOM file from Genealogies	26-Mar-25
Is there a way to add a GED branch to an existing CET?	26-Jan-24
List of people sorted by surname and given name	24-Apr-24
Match persons in CET & Family Tree	29-Apr-24
Merge data from FS to CET	13-Jan-25
Name list available from tree detail page	24-Apr-2024
Orange alert banner appearing on person page cannot be dismissed	7-Nov-24
Persistent error panel sliding from right	24-Apr-2024
Recents menu from FT includes persons from CET and doesn't indicate which tree you are linking to.	23-Jun-2024
Recents returns persons from FT and CET - not just CET	16-Aug-24
Scale and zoom tools needed for Tree image	19-Apr-2024
Sharing data between CET & FT	26-May-24
Sort person list by surname	12-Jul-2024
Sources attached to the main tree and not the CET tree	27-Dec-24
Sources not on GEDCOM file or CET but are in FST	27-Apr-24
Support GEDCOM 7 & 8	23-Jul-2024
Support GEDCOM 7 uploads	29-Apr-2024
User hasn't kept AQ updated. Would like to download GEDCOM from FS and upload into CET	2-Apr-25
User requests an option to build a tree from scratch instead of GEDCOM upload	26-Mar-25

Record Hints

Merleen Gholdston — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 23:16:22 +0000

Has record hinting been turned off in the CET? Currently under 'Research Helps' I see Research Suggestions but no record hints. This is a change from as recently as a week ago, when Record Hints were abundant.

New Feature Release: Tree Change-log (Latest Changes) - Feedback needed

Robert Kehrer — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:14:36 +0000

All,
Today the engineering teams turned on a new feature for all testers. In place of the previous "Coming Soon" message on the Tree Details page, you should all now see the "Latest Changes" feature. It is a chronological list of all the changes that have taken place in your tree. This new feature shows you: 1) Who changed, 2) What changed, 3) Why it changed, 4) When it changed, 5) Who made the change, and 6) a link directly to the change so you can evaluate it and revert it if you need to.

You will see a list of the last 5-6 changes that have taken place, and there will be a "Show All" button at the bottom left. If you click this button, you will see a list of all changes with an "Options" tool in the top right. This "Options" tool allow you to filter the list by date, or by who made the change. You can also reverse the list to see oldest and newest changes at the top.

Please try out this new feature and let us know what you think. We would LOVE to receive your feedback on any refinements that would ensure this meets your research needs.

Robert Kehrer, sr product manager, FamilySearch

Wales, Denbigh, Ruabon

Cherie Gardner Rawlings — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 21:11:37 +0000

Find is working now if I click on it twice. It finds the person in the CET BUT, I cannot click on the person and go to them; instead, I get an Error message saying the person is restricted or removed.

Interesting and Alarming Observations from looking at the Family Tree and the CET

James Tanner — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:21:34 +0000

I uploaded a GEDCOM created by Ancestry.com to create a CET. In looking at the entries I found a person who had more information in the Ancestry/GEDCOM than appeared in the FamilySearch Family Tree. In other words, the Ancestry/GEDCOM person had not been synced with the Family Tree person. To do this, I had the CET open in Ancestry and the FamilySearch Family Tree opened in Edge. The Idea here is see if Ancestry can see the CET. I can't show all the details here in this discussion because it will not work with the screenshots I made so I am switching over to an email.