THINGS you wish GenealogyWise could do

How about this to help out the programmers. There are many more options using the Ning platform, and the WVR programmers will never know which we prefer unless we ask.

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Permalink Reply by tami osmer glatz on July 9, 2009 at 3:06pm

I'll ditto others - I'd really like the e-mails to mention what the posts say, ala Facebook's notifications. I'd also like to have a small "about me" box on my page.

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Permalink Reply by DearMYRTLE on July 9, 2009 at 3:11pm

And perhaps some way to search that database (on every word in the source/description field.

Ron Vincent said:

I'd like to see surname pages with documentation. For instance, I could enter my grandfather and upload a JPG of his death certificate, family bible entry, etc., anything acceptable as a primary or secondary source. You could require a source upload without verifying if the source is acceptable so long as it could be reported to administrators and removed is needed. Upon removal, the name entry would no longer be valid. Any name with any uploaded or "typed into a form" source would be acceptable. If we had a surname database of just entries with sources it would be a lot more accurate.

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Permalink Reply by Allison Saxman on July 9, 2009 at 3:17pm

How about a search engine for a group? For example, I set up a group for a county in Alabama and it would be helpful for my members to be able to locate a surname or a placename in that group alone. I could see it being helpful in other groups, too.

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Permalink Reply by Kirsty F Wilkinson on July 9, 2009 at 4:43pm

I'd like to be able to add a link to more than one of my websites on My Page. Is there a way to do this that I am missing?

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Permalink Reply by GeneJ on July 9, 2009 at 5:21pm

Places to put things. After all, we're famiy historians and genealogists; we tend to be a little compulsive about organization!
For the various surname groups, I'd like a place where members can to upload FGS (and have the record for the upload link back to their personal page). I'll call that the FGS cabinet.
Ditto, I'd like the groups I join to have a separate little section (call it the "virtual library") that keeps track of the other files that are uploaded. I know items can be attached to discussion topics, but believe the title, contributor names for those attachments should be set off so they can be browsed separately from the discussion topics. While I want that capability for other reasons, seems it would help us monitor for copyright and other issues, no?
Then yes...yes...yes. The ability to search the page (and the uploaded items, inc. the source citation), for the keywords.
Hope this helps.--GJ

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Permalink Reply by Paula Hinkel on July 9, 2009 at 9:56pm

Seems to me that when I send a friend request, there is no change in the links that show up under a member's name. If I have received a friend request from someone but not yet accepted it, the Members page still shows "add as friend."

Agree that the content of a message should be sent in the email. much more efficient for those of us who are straddling both Facebook and GenealogyWise. I'm much more likely to maintain both sites if I can do it efficiently.

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Permalink Reply by Darlene O'Brien on February 7, 2010 at 3:13pm

Seems I am guilty of that Paula, struggle my way around this place but just came across a friend request from you and another. Sorry I took so long Plus I'll be lucky to find my way back to the other one : (

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Permalink Reply by Paula Hinkel on July 9, 2009 at 10:26pm

Oh yeah and one more thing. More photos. 100 is just enough to be frustrating.

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Permalink Reply by Marsha L. Ensminger on July 10, 2009 at 1:10am

Sort the members by geographical location.

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Permalink Reply by Cheryl Rothwell on July 10, 2009 at 8:11am

Definitely agree with this. Right now they are almost in the category of junk mail.

GeneJ said:

Yes!!!

DearMYRTLE said:
I wish the full text of a posting would come out in those email notifications from GenealogyWise, as they do in Facebook. This gives you an idea if you must respond immediately, or it you just want to get through the rest of your email before opening up your web browser. -- The email notices we're getting now are of little or no value to me. (Yes, I've learned to have Outlook auto-place them in a specific folder so my mail inbox isn't so cluttered.)

In other words, GenealogyWise, this isn't about page hits, this is about social networking.

If you happen to get a lot of page hits, then so much the better.

Remember that another large genealogy website has been attempting for years to overcome the reputation about being too focused on the numbers.

If you build it -- they will come.

Build it right.

M

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Permalink Reply by Cheryl Rothwell on July 10, 2009 at 8:13am

I think we need a HELP page. I can not figure out how to do a lot of things. It says you can add widgets to your group page but I can't. We need to be able to add permanent links to our group pages. Lots of things that we need to do and may even be available but we don't know how and there is no help.

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Permalink Reply by Cheryl Rothwell on July 10, 2009 at 8:15am

One of the main thing this site lacks is organization. I second GeneJ. Genealogists must be organized and at a minimum they expect their site to be organized.