GenealogyJ

Paul · Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 55

I think this could be improved by displaying the year of birth of individual rather than their ID number. I have several people with the same name in my tree so I have to go back to list view to find their ID number.

The latest build displays names in the dialog as GIVN SURN / SURN, GIVN - I'm not sure how much use that is??

zebooka · Joined: 25 Dec 2008 Posts: 20 Location: Russia, Novosibirsk

Well, I'm using defined IDs and this helps a lot.

I_YYYY_LFS = Individual, Year of Birth, Last/Family (Maiden) + First + Second names first letters

F_YYYY_Family = Family, Year of marriage, Family name

nmeier · Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 18:22:46 Post subject: Re: Select root of tree dialog

Hi Paul

Paul · Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 55

Hi Nils,

If I right-click and choose 'select root of tree' (in tree view of course!) the dialog I'm presented with has individuals listed thus in the drop-down box...

John Smith / Smith, John (I270)

If I have four of five John Smiths in my .GED how can I know which is which unless I switch back to list view?

If they were listed with dates it might be clearer which John Smith I wanted to set as root. Something like this ...

John Smith (1812 - 1855)
John Smith (1902 - 1990)
John Smith (1785 - )

Cheers

Paul

nmeier · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 19:15:55 Post subject:

ok, gotcha - I'll check in a change and build a test-version for you shortly

Thanks!
Nils

Paul · Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 55

Much better, thanks Nils!

Paul · Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 55

I've been using this a little while now and I think it could be further (but probably easily!) improved by putting the dates in parentheses as per my earlier post e.g. (1802 - 1874) or something like (1793 - ) or ( - 1920) where the birth or death is not known. Just a bit of concatenation I guess? Very Happy