I'm in the process of migrating a tree containing over 10,000 people from Ancestry.com/FTM to Reunion. I love almost everything about Reunion. Not only does it solve all kinds of problems created by Ancestry, it solves problems I didn't even realize were problems.
But inevitably there are a few things I wonder about. Apologies if these issues have been addressed before--I looked but couldn't find anything.
First, in the pedigree version of Tree View, one Ancestry/FTM feature I _really_ miss are the rightward-pointing triangles at the right-hand ends of "branches", that indicate whether there are or aren't further ancestors up each branch of the pedigree. This really should be something visible at a glance, not something you have to click to see. Not having them makes pedigree view about 50% less useful.
The second issue is a constant irritant. My database combines my ancestors and those of my wife. We decided to do it this way because beyond a certain number of generations we have a lot of the same ancestors, and it seemed like a lot of work to have to enter them all twice, into two separate databases.
So: I know how to make my wife and me the "home" couple in Family View. But there doesn't seem to be any equivalent setting for making one or the other of us the default single root person in Tree View. Instead, it always defaults to me -- I can be working in Tree View ten generations up my wife's ancestry, but if I click the "home" button at the bottom of the screen, the Tree View pops back to me and my immediate forebears.
To make her the root person instead is just one click on the downward-pointing triangle underneath "me". But when I have to do that one extra click several dozen times in an hour's work, it starts getting a little old. The fact is, my wife has a much more extensively documented ancestry than I do, so at any given time I'm much more likely to be looking at, or editing, people who are her forebears. So I'm going to want the tree "root" to be her most of the time. Is there some way to accomplish this that I've missed? Or, failing that, might this be considered a really, really heartfelt feature request?
But inevitably there are a few things I wonder about. Apologies if these issues have been addressed before--I looked but couldn't find anything.
First, in the pedigree version of Tree View, one Ancestry/FTM feature I _really_ miss are the rightward-pointing triangles at the right-hand ends of "branches", that indicate whether there are or aren't further ancestors up each branch of the pedigree. This really should be something visible at a glance, not something you have to click to see. Not having them makes pedigree view about 50% less useful.
The second issue is a constant irritant. My database combines my ancestors and those of my wife. We decided to do it this way because beyond a certain number of generations we have a lot of the same ancestors, and it seemed like a lot of work to have to enter them all twice, into two separate databases.
So: I know how to make my wife and me the "home" couple in Family View. But there doesn't seem to be any equivalent setting for making one or the other of us the default single root person in Tree View. Instead, it always defaults to me -- I can be working in Tree View ten generations up my wife's ancestry, but if I click the "home" button at the bottom of the screen, the Tree View pops back to me and my immediate forebears.
To make her the root person instead is just one click on the downward-pointing triangle underneath "me". But when I have to do that one extra click several dozen times in an hour's work, it starts getting a little old. The fact is, my wife has a much more extensively documented ancestry than I do, so at any given time I'm much more likely to be looking at, or editing, people who are her forebears. So I'm going to want the tree "root" to be her most of the time. Is there some way to accomplish this that I've missed? Or, failing that, might this be considered a really, really heartfelt feature request?
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