tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post7188266936137950038..comments2024-03-21T19:08:05.737-07:00Comments on Genealogy's Star: Individual Records for Each Individual in FamilySearch.org?James Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-55945985488882174462013-09-11T14:46:24.862-07:002013-09-11T14:46:24.862-07:00Why won't they make the old family search avai...Why won't they make the old family search available for purchase.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-61820371913539147492013-08-10T03:33:15.656-07:002013-08-10T03:33:15.656-07:00They are slowly moving toward the system that Ance...They are slowly moving toward the system that Ancestry.com has been using a long time. Go to beta.familysearch.org and find a record. You will see a second attach to tree function. That beta function attaches to everyone that is on that source, but it attaches each person's indexed data page just like the programmers tell us is the goal. When that is released we will be able to link the right data to the right person on a census for example. Each person has a different age, marital status etc. eventually, FamilySearch will allow pushing this data into the tree during the linking process. Think Ancestry.com. It sounds more confusing the way these programmers put it, but it is really the same exact thing Ancestry.com has had for years. I'm thankful for the foresight of the programmers in making a system that is forward compatible with features like pushing records data for each household member from the census to the tree.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09108246378388789103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-57077498520214568252013-08-09T02:15:44.267-07:002013-08-09T02:15:44.267-07:00I agree that it is confusing. The programers seem...I agree that it is confusing. The programers seem the most confused of all. <br /><br />I think the problem is the idea of attaching sources to people. In reality research starts with the record, from which we extract information about people, which we then attach to some known people. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-46516160945885456102013-08-08T22:02:22.711-07:002013-08-08T22:02:22.711-07:00As far as you have taken it, you are not missing a...As far as you have taken it, you are not missing a thing. The programmers have a dream for this system that is a closed one -- wanting an extremely limited indexed-records list to be a catalog for an extremely limited sector of persons in the FS-FamilyTree.<br /><br />Another flaw in the search-from-tree design besides the maiden-name problem (affecting only 50% of the population where the maiden names are known at all) is that also-known-as names are not also searched. So even where one has entered the a/k/a for a mistakenly transcribed/indexed marriage record or Census entry, the search-from-tree function will not come up with the mistaken index page unless you specifically change the search parameter and repeat the search.<br /><br />The site is already one of the slowest-loading on the planet. As this material becomes more strangely integrated, unfortunately I anticipate it will get even slower.<br />Geoloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12050268303916428230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-59815620278304422112013-08-08T17:43:57.428-07:002013-08-08T17:43:57.428-07:00I enjoyed your post (as always). It seems program...I enjoyed your post (as always). It seems programs are not judged as good when they work in a simply way. I love improvements, but I don't care for just a different way that oftentimes complicates a procedure and/or the end result. I jokingly said once that my career goal was to go to Washington and write regulations about things I knew nothing about. I often wonder if the programmers understand genealogy. I think sources are only reliable when I can judge their origins and sometimes contact the people responsible for the information input.Joan Thomas Hollowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18210117849454064392noreply@blogger.com