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 _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Clarke Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 9:21 AM To: [email protected] 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 _____ NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
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