[Ldsoss] Request for New FamilySearch UI Recommendations

[Steven H. McCown]

My vote is to provide all of the form methods that you mentioned.  Different
people work in different ways.  If I have an entire family of individuals,
then the "one form per" would be really nice.  That would also eliminate
your having to keep clicking "add child".  Sometimes, I'm only working on
ancestors, so a pedigree entry form would be very handy.  Another thing that
I would like to see is a custom form builder where users could create their
own form fields tied to database record entries.  Flexibility would be
better for some users.

 

One thing that I would really like to see (for trivia purposes) is a way to
cut & paste or even print results from the relationship calculator.  My
version of PAF doesn't seem to allow this.  My son did a genealogy project
for school, where the teacher gave extra credit for a pedigree line over 5
generations.  We have one line that goes > 100 generations, but it was a
fair amount of work to calculate using PAF.  I almost switched packages.

 

Between my wife and I, we have over 15K names, so we are more in the power
user category.  However, from a new user approach, (dare I say it) a wizard
approach would be really helpful.

 

Steve

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[mailto:ldsoss-bounces at lists.ldsoss.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Clarke
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:21 AM
To: ldsoss at lists.ldsoss.org
Subject: [Ldsoss] Request for New FamilySearch UI Recommendations

 

Developers,

 

We are looking for a new, intuitive and effective way to assist typical
members (ie. 
members with limited computer and genealogical experience) to enter through
a desktop client basic family information about parents, children, spouse(s)
and siblings for up to four generations. Event dates and locations, if
known, should be captured for the birth, death, and marriage of each family
member.

 

Below are some of the methods that we have seen:

 


* One big form per family where you leave unused siblings or spouse(s)
blank.

 

* Forms dynamically generated by the number of spouse(s) and children.

 

* Add persons and info as you need it.

 

* Pedigree for just names then drill down to add the detail information.

 

* One big pedigree where you leave unused areas blank.

 

* Multiple Descendency charts for each set of great-great grand parents

 

* Many different combinations of the above.

 


Please respond to this email ASAP, if you are interested in taking time to
prepare a 
description of your best new, intuitive, and effective solution. More
details will be 
emailed to all respondents.

 

Best regards,

 

Gordon Clarke
FamilySearch DevNet Manager
(801) 240-0770

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