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On "http://www.geni.com/list/index" it would be very, very useful to be able to enter a page number to jump to.

James Carl Hammack

July 12, 2013 21:20

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I am looking at My Family Tree for direct ancestors that generates a 250 page list.  If I want to go to page 200, it is very laborious to jump to 250, then jump back a small number of pages at a time.  If users could submit a page number to jump to, simple interpolation would let us get to the neighborhood and then only have to jump through a small number of pages to get where we want to go.  If the computer or browser crashes, entering the page number would let the users recover much faster than having to use the present method.

Another thought:  it might also be useful to instruct the program to jump to the first person in the 35th or 12th or 40th great grands list in the Family Tree.

 

What ever you decide to do, it should be a great improvement over the painfully slow method used now!!!

hammackjc@hotmail.com

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  Bjørn P. Brox July 13, 2013 06:17

  A quick workaround I use is to add the page number to the URL, example: http://www.geni.com/list/index?page=200

   

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  Bjørn P. Brox July 13, 2013 06:20

  Ps, please use the Feature Requests» section the next time if you have any suggestions.

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  Michael Berton Abelsen October 24, 2014 23:34

  I have 13,372 ancestors, your index is limited to 5,000 (250 pages). Increase the size of the index
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  Michael Berton Abelsen October 24, 2014 23:39

  I have 13,000 + ancestors your index is limited to 250 pages at 29 per page = 5,000.
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  Bjørn P. Brox October 27, 2014 17:50

  I always wonder: Why do you want more than 5000 in that list?
  Since the tree is not static the list might change while going through it and I am sure that you stop anyhow long before seeing all 5000 profiles.

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  Michael Berton Abelsen October 27, 2014 18:42

  Yes, I use your work around and it works well for less then falf of my ancestors, not even talking about relatives. I understand it is not static but it is nice to know woo my oldest ancestor is by going to the last one directly and paging forward. The tree is very fluid and should be able to accommodate a dynamic environment. Take this suggestion to your review board and become a hero. Thanks Michael. ((Will be going over 14,000 soon)