This morning, while watching Ron Tanner’s recording of his live Facebook session Thursday, January 23rd, one of the first things he talked about was a new feature added to the FamilySearch Family Tree app. You can now see a view of all of the contributions you have personally made to FamilySearch Family Tree – and it’s cool!
I am a supporter of the free FamilySearch Family Tree. I add information to it often, consider it a helpful way to share information with others, and I appreciate their model of one profile per person that multiple collaborators can jointly work on and contribute. With this new update, there are 3 components: Stats, Changes, and Private Persons.
Stats – here is where I can see my personal contributions. The screen allows you to see all (sources, memories, and persons) or individually by categorically. The stats are presented as a bar chart by year from 2013 – present. Since 2013, I’ve made 6,551 contributions. How cool to be able to see this! I can see the specific breakdown by looking at each tab – sources, memories, or persons and I have had 3,429 source contributions, 1,657 memories contributions, and I’ve created 1,465 persons for the tree. Nice!
The Changes tab allows me to see the list of profiles that I’ve changed – specifically, the last 300. This is handy to have in the app! I receive weekly emails of changes made to persons whose profile pages I am monitoring and I can also see the list on the website. However, in those cases, I need to do an additional step to filter to see just my changes. This app update allows me to directly see just my changes. For example, I worked on my Koonce Surname Project last night and this morning and the app shows the individuals I was working on.
For the Private Persons, I will not show the screen (for privacy reasons of course), but I also find this handy. I did find one person on my Private Persons list that is deceased, and therefore should not be on the list, so I will report that to FamilySearch so they can make his profile non-private.
This update is great! With the RootsTech annual convention happening at the end of February, I am sure FamilySearch will have more to share and I am eagerly looking forward to it all! I am doing a presentation on February 8th about working with your family tree, so this is definitely getting incorporated.
Thanks Taneya, I’m going to check this out right now.
Glad to hear it!
Appreciate this information! Hoping they add this information to the is computer version of Family Search for those who don’t use the app! Also wondering why you can’t change a living person to deceased by adding a death date?