Update
I said I was ready to stop messing with this, but I guess I was wrong... I've made a few changes that I think/hope people will like.
- A Watchlist View
After you log in, you can see profiles from your watchlist. I've set a max of 150 at a time for now, but this may change.
- A Filter
For the Ancestors view, I've put a button next to each person's name. Click that and the people on the page will all be descendants (and their spouses) and ancestors of that person. The rest will be hidden. To reverse this, just hit the same button (now highlighted in green) again.
- Ahnentafel numbers and MFMF
In the top left corner, it says 'P' (Parent), 'GP' (Grandparent), 'G3GP' (Great-Great-Great-Grandparent), and so on. Now, if you click that you can see what I'm calling the MFMF (because I don't know the proper term for it, if there is one). So, it may say, for example, 'MFMF', which means "mother's father's mother's father", giving you a clearer description of their relation to the focal profile than just 'G2GF'. I know some people like Ahnentafel numbers, so if you click that box again, you can see the Ahnentafel number.*
- Links to other apps
On the right, there are links to Bio Check (BC), Fan Chart (FC), and Topola (T). Click a link and each of these apps run automatically for the profile you're on. These are all excellent, and very useful apps.
- Path to the focal profile
On the Ancestors view, clicking a profile box now shows the same as before (lines to spouse, parents, and child), but you can also follow the lines from the child to their child, and so on back to the focal person.
Apart from adding a descendants view (soon-ish, I hope), I don't think I will make many more changes, unless there's something broken or if anyone has any suggestions for new things that seem doable.
As before, please let me know if you see any problems. (In testing/development, I managed to make my browser freeze a few times. Definitely let me know if that happens to you!)
* A bit techy, but maybe interesting: I read an interesting article about Ahnentafel being a binary system. I wasn't very familiar with binary before, but now I see. If you know this, don't worry, but if you don't, let me share what I learned. Briefly... Think about this sequence: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc. Each of the 1s and 0s in a binary number represent those numbers in reverse and they're added together, so... 1 = 1; 11 = 2+1=3; 101 = 4+0+1=5; 1011 = 8+0+2+1=11; 11010101 = 128+64+0+16+0+4+0+1=213. The magic part here is that when we convert the Ahnentafel number 213 (for example) to binary and remove the leading 1, giving us 1010101, each of those 1s represents a mother and each of the 0s is a father, so 213 = MFMFMFM, your mother's father's mother's father's mother's father's mother. Honestly, this is probably not useful in everyday life, because who's going to spend time converting decimal numbers to binary numbers** to find a genealogical relationship? But it's very useful for my app. (I really hope that was a little interesting...)
** If you do want to convert decimal numbers to binary numbers, you can search '123 (for example) in binary' in Google. Google gives a result like this: 0b1111011. Remove the '0b1' from the start, and 123 is MMMFMM, your mother's mother's mother's father's mother's mother. :)
