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Mousing over family member names on a profile or edit page provides self-evident pieces of data like "father", "brother".   There's an opportunity to do something very useful and that's to provide the birthdate (in brief canonical form), the first 15 characters, say, of birthplace, deathdate in brief, and deathplace.  Or maybe birth, death and spouse name would be better, saving a click to get that information.

This costs nothing in compute time until it is asked for.

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Wow!  This is a great idea, Steve!  I am always using two profiles for the same person at once while writing biographies.  I use one to open each family member's profile to see the birth and death dates, (and also the profile numbers), just to then add them to the biography.

Great idea!

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Update: This is now done.

If you hover-over a family member's link you'll see their birth year and birth location.

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Fabulous!!  Thanks!!

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Thank you, Steve and Chris!  This is going to save me a lot of time. 

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"Off by one" bug?   I've noticed the hover birth differs from what's found in the profile.  Just one example:

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lay-453

Hover over Susan (Lay) Hays.

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That's odd, Steve. One has the birth date as 1787, the other as 1788. I'm not sure what's going on. Does anyone else have an example of this?

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Thanks. I should have said, "off by one when the date in question is approximate".  Most of the other links on the example profile have the same behavior.

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Steve, this issue with the dates should now be fixed.

Answer 1

Great suggestion, Steve. I'll look into this.

By the way, it would require server resources and bandwidth. Although it could be done such that the data isn't loaded unless it's asked for, that would be complicated. We'd do it by loading the data in all cases so that you could see it if you mouse-over the link.

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Thanks!

It's too bad the architecture doesn't readily allow an on=demand lookup.