Introducing the Family Calendar on Tree Apps!

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I'm happy to announce the official launch of the Family Calendar to the Tree Apps family! Say goodbye to traditional anniversary lists and slow loading times – the Family Calendar app offers a fresh perspective on exploring birth and death anniversaries within your family tree.

What's New?

 Visualize the birth and death anniversaries of up to ten generations, including siblings, in a convenient month-by-month view.

 Print and share your customized calendar image to celebrate and honor your ancestors' anniversaries.

 Say hello to a faster and more engaging experience that adds a touch of modernity to your family history journey.

How to Get Started?

Getting started is easy! Simply navigate to the Tree Apps tab from your profile and select "Family Calendar" from the dropdown menu and click "GO".

Ready to see it in action? Try the Family Calendar for Abraham Lincoln.

Have Suggestions or Feedback?

Your input matters! If you have any suggestions or feedback about the Family Calendar , please feel free to share your thoughts below.

Comments

Greetings Steve, and thank you, thank you for the awesome calendar! Not just because you took the time and thought of a cool way to give a gift to all of the researchers in wikitree, but because you have given me a gift for each person in my tree. I now have a regular reminder on everyone's special day to devote more time to just them, seeing what I can locate and add to their biography.  A gift that keeps on giving!

Thank you again!

Michelle Wetzel

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Thank you Steve. I appreciate all the work you did for us.

Dottie Mersinger

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Looks like a very interesting and useful addition - many thanks to the developers.  Good to be able to view all those events on the one sheet per month.

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Thank you so very much for your time and effort spent on the development of this wonderful calendar!

Jeannette Say

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Thank you so much. I appreciate what you have created.

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Thank you for the calendar and all the work you’ve done! I can’t wait to fully explore the app!

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Thank you, Steve - great app!

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Thank you so much for this calendar app.  My niece tried to get me to do something similar years ago, but I couldn't think how to do it.  You have fixed the problem.  Sadly, my niece died last year.  But I will enjoy the calendar.

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Just want to say thanks for your work on the calendar, it will be a great reference page.

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Thank you Steve, it's so nice to have all that info neatly placed like that!

Answer 1

Feed back.  Dark type on a dark background makes for very hard to read entries.

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Do you mean the background of the entire page (body)? I will have to look at overriding that since it is the default for Tree Apps.

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No, I am not referring to the background of the entire page. I am referring to the entries. The entry text is dark and the entry background is dark.

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Tommy, can you send me a screenshot of what you see? You can catch me in email or Discord. This may be a browser issue I need to catch. The text should be white on the dark backgrounds.

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I posted a screenshot in the wiki-tree apps channel on Discord.

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Update from Apps channel discussion: WBE Custom Style options may override Tree App styles. Ian was able to identify this quickly and will work on a fix.

Answer 2

Long names are being truncated off the entry. Just let them wrap to the next line.

If background colors are being used to indicate the event type, then a color code table should be included on the calendar so as not to have to repeat the event type on each entry.

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I have an couple of enhancements documented for 

• Shortening the names (using ShortName instead of LongName), which will help with the wrapping.
• Adding year details to the events, such as "Birth 1724" or "Death 1899".

Adding a legend for color coding would increase the space exponentially, which will affect image capture, etc.

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I’m not sure why you would need to increase the space exponentially to add a legend when a simple legend line at the top are bottom of the calendar would suffice.

Example: Legend:  Birth  Anniversary  Death

They could even be listed vertically inside the first empty space or last empty space on a monthly calendar.

Answer 3

can we have options on what to include and maybe colors? i dont really like death anniversaries myself, would much rather just celebrate birth and marriages

Answer 4

Great work, Steve!

Answer 5

Thank you Steve

Answer 6

Hello Steve,

Thank you for the Calendar with my relatives on it. You are very special to include others in your searches on Wiki Tree.

Sherry

Answer 7

Thank you so much for this app. There is so much information, its so greatly appreciated.

Answer 8

Great work Steve! Looks good and I will likely make frequent use of it in the future. Like the format, but would it be possible to add the year of birth or death (NNNN), along with the name?

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Yes sir, that is in the pipeline!

Answer 9

Thanks, Steve.  I love the calendar!!

Answer 10

Steve,

This is SO much better for me than just having a list of happenings in a given month. I can actually SEE what's going on to DO something if I want. Other months, except for the 95ths Honoring of the Sacrifice of the Spook lll on 28JUL23 on the 80th Anniversary, I haven't done anything because they were just jumbled together.

I will NOT, however, be putting it on a day-to-day calendar since just with the WT events I have run out of calendar space & I literally have no life outside the Tree! LOL!

Thanks again!

Answer 11

Thank you very much! This is most interesting.

Answer 12

Thank you guys! ☺️

Answer 13

Great idea! Thanks, Steve!

Answer 14

Thank you Steve!  Great idea and really appreciate your hard work!

Answer 15

Steve,

Thank you, Steve, for adding the family calendar to my tree!

Diane

Answer 16

Thank You Cousin Steve!  Awesome!

Answer 17

Wonderful work, Steve.  It is quick, comprehensive and fascinating. It will bring a new dimension to each month. Thank you.

Answer 18

Hi Steve,

I think there may be something in my tree that's tripping the app up.  I tried it out and was surprised to see not a single Swedish name in my calendar, even though I've done a lot of work on my Swedish great-grandfather's tree.  I also tried looking for each of my great-great grandparents and none of them appear either. (I have full birth dates for all but four.)  Next I tried generating the calendar for my grandmother instead (Erickson-2000) and that seemed to work as expected, showing ancestors who were missing from my calendar.

I thought maybe it was an issue with privacy settings, but my parents and grandparents are all set as Public or Private with Public Tree, and everyone beyond them is Public or Open.

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The app only generates out to 10 generations (your parents are generation 2). Is it possible they are farther out than that?

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No, it isn't showing any of my great-great grandparents, or anyone younger than that, for that matter.  My own birthday isn't even showing up.  I looked for just a handful of my 3xG grandparents and didn't find them either.  

If I put my mom in (Hirtle-207) it seems to work, showing her own birthday, both of her parents, etc.  None of those show up when I run it with my own ID.  

My dad's calendar (Griffith-5239) behaves similar to mine... it seems to show only distant ancestors.  Drilling down a bit further.... his father (Griffith-5244) works fine... his mother (Holmes-8874) does not.  Neither of her parents' calendars work correctly (Holmes-8955 and Howland-2038).  Her paternal grandfather's (Holmes-8956) seems to work but not her paternal grandmother (Richardson-14576).  Neither of her maternal grandparents' (Howland-2046 and Leach-3351) works.
It's not unlikely that there's a single ancestor that's messing up the calendars for my grandmother's paternal grandmother and both maternal grandparents.  My grandmother's ancestry is 100% PGM, so there are a lot of shared ancestors.

Answer 19

Thank you for this app. It had an unexpected advantage. I mistakenly had two sisters with the same birthdate, and the error showed up in the calendar! I would not have caught it otherwise.

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It's wonderful to hear about the unexpected advantage you experienced with the app!

Answer 20

I am sorry the print of this on my IPad is too small it is impossible to read. Daphne Clelford

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It seems that you should be able to make your print larger. ???

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Daphne, if you can provide some specific issues, I may be able to investigate those. The calendar should already support mobile devices (panning and zooming, portrait and landscape orientation changes, etc.). I can confirm it works and is readable on a much smaller device (android phone).