Issue 27.16
Joseph Smith died June 27, 1844, in Carthage, Illinois. New.FamilySearch.org died June 27, 2016 in Utah County, Utah! Family Tree was disconnected from the “new” old FamilySearch program and connected to a new database system. Speed should be more consistent, and users may notice an improvement, especially on Sundays.
In the new system, users will be able to merge people they could not merge before, such as IOUS (Individuals of unusual size) and persons linked to locked persons. Membership records will no longer have to be the surviving record. Some constraints will remain: users will not be able to merge read-only or locked records, opposite-gender records, or parent and child records.
Memories, sources, and ordinances are automatically copied to the surviving record in a merge. Badges (such as Mormon Battalion) might get lost during a merge. If you want to keep the badges, make the badge holder the surviving record, (the one of the left).
Some new limits will be put in place on individual person records: 1,000 memories, 50 relationship sources 200 person sources, 200 conclusions (vital information, life sketch, other information). These limits are very generous and should not pose problems for the large majority of users. The three most recent changes in the Latest Change Log will once again be displayed on the right hand panel of the person page.
There are some knowledge articles that explain more about the changes, see 393611 “What did FamilySearch do to the website during the June 27 Shutdown?” 393327 “Limits to the data about relationships in Family Tree” 393326 “Limits to the data about persons in Family Tree” 393328 “Character limits in the fields in Family Tree” 393616 “Changed the Sex of a Record in Family Tree and now the Ordinances Show “Not Available”.
The LDS membership records are still decoupled from Family Tree for the time being so the membership department will still need to manually add death information to members so all of their information will show. Currently you will need to create a support case even if the ward clerk does his job because membership is not connected. Family Projects for Living (Private Spaces) was not part of this upgrade. This was a great upgrade which moved the system to “the cloud” (over from the Oracle database foundation to the new Cassandra tree foundation) which allows speed upgrades in the future.
For more information contact Shanna Jones shannasjones@msn.com www.searchshanna.com