Suggestions

When searching for possible matches from my Tree I frequently find that I am re-visiting information discarded as irrelevent
(The numbers in the Purple Star)

Would it be possible to have a disregard/ignore tick box in the search results that if ticked, would reduce the numbers quoted in the Purple star and refrain from showing me again in the search results accessed from my tree?

Many thanks

Jeremy

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My tree includes lots of Mac....... However some of the names are then spelt with a lower case letter ie Macon. My father spelt his "Macdonald" with a small D but the programme does not let you do this. Is there any way around this problem??

I do wish that people would add a message to the request to view my tree!!I find it most annoying that they do not even give a name that might be of relevance!!

I would like to suggest that we are able to update the Lifeline tab for each relative. It seems to update automatically with birth and children, but I would like to be able to add more detail here rather than in the small Notes section on the Details tab.

For example, when people moved house or key events in their life.

My Tree would be like it is on ancestry.co.uk much better to find people and the hints are great
I found it hard work on here to find anyone
I am new to this site but haven't found any information yet
Doreen

would like to be able to copy across another family tree by automatically clicking and not having to copy each relative across one by one.

I have had to do that as well Simon. I thought rellies had disappeared at first!!

At the moment I would like to just be able to see my tree!! :-S For a few days now it just won't load.

Thanks Simon,

I will do s you advise.

Tess,

Try just searching for the person's surname. You should then get a list of all of the 'Smiths' (or whoever), from which you then need to click on the actual person you are looking for.

I have had the same problem you describe. It's another irritation of the now not-so new tree.

When searching my tree for a particular person I often get the message that there is no record of this person. I don't put a date of birth so I haven't made an error there.

It is always nonsense (no spelling mistakes , no other errors made by me) the person has ALWATS been on my tree on GR.

Just what is the problem?

Why am I being given incorrect info. ?

Sometimes I have more than one person with the name I am searching for, but GR can't find a record of any of them!!!!!

Jerry,

Yes, I've had those problems too.

Another odd one is that if you search for, say, Bruce Campbell you get no results, yet if you search for Campbell you get a long list, including Bruce...

Also... sometimes it will show an individual in the tree but not their spouce - but if you then search for the spouce, it finds them and shows them correctly attached to the original person you were viewing.

Simon

I have observed similar problems though I find that moving up or down a generation or two and then going back to my entry normally clears the problem.

Have also found a problem with the tree search in that it does not always work.

I tried searching for "William Morgan" on my tree. Twice I was told that there were no matches. Each time I retyped the names and each time I got nothing. So I tried someone else and it then worked fine.
Went back to William and got the 8 matches I had expected.

Another thing that annoys me (in Immediate View) is that spouses are shown according to their date of birth rather than by date of Marriage. And it took two emails to Support before they admitted that this was a "design" problem.

But despite these niggling problems. I far prefer the Genes tree to other On line trees I have tried so live with the hopes that these problems will get sorted out in the not too distant future.

Jeremy

I have tried changing the death date and as BryanAA says it did not update. However by using the refresh button (F5) I avoided having to exit the tree although it does take you back to the root.

Subsequently every time I changed a death date it appeared immediately on the display.

There are so many bugs with the Family Tree that it is almost unusable. I would suggest that Tech Support ask your I.T. people to get their fingers out and fix the serious bugs.

Examples:
Hiding Living Relations - only seems to work if you set this option recently, for old accounts, the new tree seems to have forgotten this preference.

Changes to a persons details in the slide out panel are not always reflected on the tree box for the person - i.e. changing the date of death is not being updated until you exit the tree and go back in.

Copying from the clipboard is not working at all.

These are just 3 of the many serious issues with this tree - very poor development release in my opinion.

Hello Helen,
That is a very nice thing to do.
I think you would need to do a search from the main page of Genes with the Surname of the Family in the Bible you have.
If the entries in the Bible give a location for the family, you may be able, via the Genes search facility to get some names that match.
Then using the first name and Surname it could lead you to a possible match. Of course the dates will be the main route to finding a probable match.
You need to be aware that this family might not be one that has a Genes Reunited member - in which case you could then extend your search to the Census Returns for the years in question.

Do you realize that some of the other community pages on Genes Reunited have volunteers who would be only too willing to help you?

Regards

PeeEmm :-)

I would like to be able to use trees to find decendents of the people who owned a Victorian Bible I have

WHO owns GR? Surely it is the people who keep subscribing to them!! I will not be renewing my subscription next time if the 'powers that be' don't do something about all the things that are wrong/troublesome with this 'new' site! LISTEN UP GR and answer some of the complaints with ACTIONS!!!! You made a bad choice by changing the old site....be truthful and admit and reward us by returning our lovely old site.....PLEASE!!!
Very unhappy......June Jarman :-(

Yes you can export it as often as you like but wait until the first one has finished.

However once you have one exported GEDCOM file you can load that file into as may FH programs as you have.

Hi Everyone

Is it possible to export a tree more than once from Genes.

I would like to put mine on Tribal Pages as well Ancestry.

Sue :-)

Simon
Gedcom Export "Stuck on the server"!
OK today.
Genes response:
Thank you for taking the time to bring this to our attention.

This problem has now been resolved and will work correctly if you would like to try again, I am afraid you tree was stuck on the server.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience that was caused by this problem.