The Ancestor Webs app has had a major update, and I’d like to share that with you now.
To find it from any profile, click the Tree Apps tab, select "Ancestor Webs," then click "Go."
This app, which originally began life as my very first app on WikiTree, called SpiderWebs, had as its original purpose the ability to view your pedigree and focus on those ancestors that appear multiple times, the ones I call “repeat ancestors”. That was the aspect that was first brought over to the new Ancestor Webs app that lives in the Tree Apps collection.
Improvements include:
- Better spacing logic has been added on all views to avoid overlapping names
- Blue “loading” message incorporated in button bar (especially useful with this app since loading times get longer as generations go back)
- Redesign of connecting lines to try and organize some of the chaos
- The SINGLE drop down list of ancestors is now alphabetized, and each name also indicates the # of generations and if they are a repeat ancestor (with *)
The second purpose of the original app has now been realized in this latest update - and that is the option to add a SECOND primary person, and view THEIR repeat ancestors. (Click on the + person icon)
- There is now a COMMON view which shows which ancestors the two primary people have in common, at a certain generation level. You may have to go pretty far back to find that common ancestor - there is a limit of 14 generations one can go back with this app.
- As well - there is a SINGLES view which focuses on a single common ancestor and shows all the routes they are related to either of the primary people (and of course, controls to cycle through them all)
There are still a few kinks to iron out when connecting lines go awry. In the future I also plan the ability to add a 3rd primary person, so you could use this also as a triangulation tool eventually.
Enjoy!
