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Blended Tree Engine v19 in-law page crash, undo, autocomplete

Sync with the website
Everything Sync changes at your end is ONE save, so Undo last save and Restore put all of it back together. Nothing goes up to the website until you press the button.
What the family have sent you
They arrive when someone in the family uses Suggest someone or reports a problem. Action opens the ordinary + door with everything they told you already filled in — save without picking a connection and they wait in the Drawer. Nothing is marked handled until something real has been written.
Unplaced people
People not connected to the main tree, and small groups connected only to each other. Everything known about them is kept and they are found by search; click a name to look at their part of the tree. Connect them through any + when you know where they belong.
Removed from the tree
People taken off the tree wait here for 60 days with every link they had \u2013 Put back brings them back. After 60 days they are cleared for good.
Rename the ticked ones to
Changes only the ticked field on each record; House and Dynasty are independent. One save, so Undo on any person page puts it all back. Removed people are left alone.
Signed in as
Come back to
A notebook for stopping mid-branch: paste as many links as you like, say whose page it is and who you need next. Every field is optional. This list is yours alone - nobody else on the tree can see it.
Hover over a person to trace bloodlines and see everyone's relationship to them.
SettingsTip: press Ctrl and + or − to make the page bigger or smaller (on a Mac, Cmd and + or −)
Your own card
Join your login to your own card, and you’ll land on it each time you open the tree. Find yourself and press your name.
The name others see for you
What the tree says when it points people to you - for example "contact Steve" when someone is paused or no longer has access.
Emails this tree has sent
The last five emails the tree tried to send, and whether each one went. Every email is kept for good - "Show all emails" lists them all, and you can search them.
Emails this tree has sent
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The last five emails the tree tried to send - a suggestion from a visitor, a restore, a failed save - and whether each one went. If one says it was not sent, the reason is next to it, so "no email in my inbox" answers itself here.
Family emails go to
Your email address by default; type another to use it instead. Adding a second person comes with logins.
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v28.18: where the family's photos and documents are emailed from the suggest forms, and where the inbox's Send-it-to-me goes. Blank means the built-in default; type an address and it is used instead; clear the box and it goes back to the default. Saved in the tree file, so the website picks it up at the next Sync.
A copy of your tree
Saves the tree as it is right now to your computer – every person, link and setting, and the pictures it uses, all in one zip.
Always allowed to copy
Your trusted family member
If you ever stop signing in, the person you name here can look after the tree for you. We only ask them once you haven’t signed in for 90 days. You can change or remove them any time.
Payment
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Your tree in numbers
Running totals - they change the moment the tree does.
Name your tree
A friendly name for this tree - shown in Settings, and on the tree itself.
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v28.47: one line, up to 60 letters, kept by the tree service beside the tree. Leave the box empty and press Save name to have no name. A copy of this tree carries the name with it.
Anonymous search
Are you happy for names on your tree to be searched anonymously by other people looking to grow their tree?
Living people are never shown, whatever you choose. Nobody sees whose tree a name is in.
+ New User / New User settings
Who may look at this tree, and what each of them may change. You decide per person - start from a preset, then tick or untick anything.
Each person has their own card below. View only can look and nothing else. View and edit starts with everything ticked - untick what you would rather keep to yourself. Everything I can do is the same plus Super user, which lets them manage these cards for other people. Deleting the whole tree is never in a preset: it is the separate question at the bottom of each card.
A change takes effect the next time that person opens the tree - and the tree service checks their ticks on every save regardless, so an old page cannot slip an edit through.
▸ + Add a person
Backups - every save, kept
Every Save keeps the version it replaced; the backups page restores any of them with one button.
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Every time you press Save, the version you are replacing is kept. The backups page lists them newest first, says what each save changed, and has a Restore button on every row - so a mistake is never more than one click from being put right. The newest 50 saves are all kept, then one an hour for two days, then one a day for two months.
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v28.45: the file exactly as it is now, kept under that name on the backups page - a line in the sand before a big edit. Nothing else changes.
Restore (at home, through the bridge)
The saves the bridge has kept, when the tree is opened from the file at home.
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Every save the bridge has kept, newest first, each saying what the save after it was. Restore puts that version back and keeps the one you are leaving as a backup too, so a wrong restore is one more restore away. The newest 50 saves are all kept, then one an hour for two days, then one a day for two months.
Your family tree
What this page is running, and whose tree this is.
Everything here is about this tree as a whole - its safety copies, your shortcuts, and who it belongs to. Nothing on this list changes a person's record.
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Suggestions and messages from visitors, and the emails about restores and failed saves, all go to this tree's contact email. Changing the contact, or naming a second person who should get them too, is coming with logins - for now it is set for you.
Recent Activity
Every change anyone has made to your tree in the last 90 days, newest first.
If a change is wrong, you can delete it here and the tree goes back to how it was before.
How to use it
  1. Find the change: scroll down, or search for a person's name, a date, or who made the change.
  2. Press Delete this change on its line. To delete several at once, tick them and press Delete the ticked changes.
  3. Made a mistake? For 30 days after a delete, press Undo delete on its line and the change comes back. To bring back several, tick them and press Undo the ticked deletes.
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A person's name opens their page in a new tab, and their Wikipedia or other links sit beside it, so you can check a change without losing your place. "Show only changes to ..." and "Show only changes made by ..." narrow the list; the x on the grey label above the list shows everything again. Deleting a change is saved like any other edit, so it appears at the top of this list too. If the same thing was changed again later by someone else, you are asked which to keep - nothing is guessed.
Recent Activity
Recent Activity is kept by the tree's service - open the tree from its web address to see every save from the last 90 days.
Favourites & Recent
Your own starred people and the last 20 you opened - nobody else sees them.
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The gold star on any card marks that person as a favourite; Recent is the last 20 records you opened. Both lists live at the bottom left of the dash, and they are yours alone - a visitor never sees them.
Tags
Every tag on the tree - click one to see everyone who has it, in a new tab.
Just for you, on this device. With no tags, the matching ones show as you type, and Show all tags lists them all.
Places
Every place in Hometown, Other locations and Occupations - our spellings. Click one to see everyone who has it, in a new tab. The old lines in Places & events stay exactly as recorded.
Language
The language of this tree - the one chosen when it was started.
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We are still working on the phrases - the tree's own words are in English for now, and this setting is what the site will follow as each language is finished. Saved the moment you choose.
Text size
Make the writing bigger or smaller - just for you, on this device. Everyone else chooses their own.
Dash
Settings
Person page
+ Add box
Pop-up boxes
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Pop-up boxes are the Drawer, Left off, Houses, Proposals and Sync. The cards on the tree and on a person's page keep their own size. A bigger screen or tired eyes, a small phone - each person picks what suits them. It is kept in this browser only, so it follows you to any tree you open here, and nobody else sees it.
Background colour
Select your tree background colour, or select an image from your gallery (the Gallery / Slideshow card below). Just for you, on this device; Standard and Heraldic each keep their own.
Colour fading to
Direction
My favourites
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It is saved the moment you change it, in this browser for now - when signing in arrives it will follow you to any device. With the premium skin and background pictures on, the pictures sit on top and your colour shows whenever they are off.
Dashboard and Settings colour
Just for you, on this device: the colour of the top bar and of this Settings page. Standard and Heraldic each keep their own.
Light · Shaded grey · Dark
Or pick your own colour
The writing changes with it - light writing on a dark colour, dark writing on a light one.
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It is saved the moment you change it, in this browser. Nothing picked = the skin's own look. The owner's choice becomes the tree's default for anyone who has not picked their own.
Retro
Just for you, on this device: see the whole tree in black and white, or like an old photo. Works with every skin and the background pictures.
What turns retro
How it looks
Pill circle
Just for you, on this device: what shows in the circle on each pill (Standard Pill 1i). Anyone without the picture or coat keeps their initials.
On each person’s page, in the box under their card: In the circle.
Home view
Just for you, on this device: the view Home takes you to - your own place on the tree, shown this way.
Card buttons
Just for you, on this device: Relationship and View / Edit show on every card. On a phone or tablet they always show.
Menu button (phone)
Just for you, on this device: on a phone, a tap on the tree tucks the top menu away, and the Menu button brings it back. Choose how big the button is.
Pets
Just for you, on this device: family pets on the Family view and Family view+. Their pages and each person's Pets stay either way.
Pet picture
Change pet ‘pill’ colour
Pictures on a person’s page
Just for you: the order the pictures sit in on everyone’s page. It follows you from laptop to phone.
Where children are drawn
When a child has more than one couple they could sit under, this decides where the tree draws them. Every parent keeps their line to the child either way.
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A child with a parent recorded as an equal parent beside the two on their record has two couples they could sit under. This setting is for the whole tree. One child can be set differently on their own page - Edit, "Drawn under". If a child has more than two couples the tree waits for that choice. Saved the moment you choose.
My own words
How you see your family – type your own word beside any of them and only you see it, on this device. Leave a box empty to keep the tree’s word.
Relationship words
The words the tree uses for family - type your own beside any of them, or leave a box empty to keep the tree's word.
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Your words are used wherever the tree names a relationship - on each person's page, on the hover labels and in the + menu. "Step-", "half-", "ex-" and "-in-law" stay as they are around your word, so "step-Mum" and "Mum-in-law" read naturally. Everyone looking at this tree sees the same words. Saved with the Save button on this card.
Relationship colours
Just for you, on this device: one colour for each kind of relationship - the button in the + door, the line on the tree and the key along the bottom all use it - and a tick to show or hide each kind of line. You start from the tree's own colours.
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Pick a colour beside any relationship; "Tree's own" puts it back. Dotted lines stay dotted whatever the colour. Your colours and ticks are yours alone and saved straight away; everyone else keeps their own. The tree's own colours are where everyone starts.
Fun facts
Favourite colours, star signs, cars they owned and the like - just for you, on this device. Everyone else chooses their own.
Star sign lists
Primary sport - shown on its own line and on the dash button; the rest are listed as Other sports
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Hiding never deletes anything - the facts are still there for anyone who shows them. The Hide fun facts tick beside Edit on a person's page is the same as Hide everywhere; untick it and you are back to the choice you had.
Birthday and anniversary banner
A gentle scrolling line under the dash and on each person's page - just for you, on this device. Everyone else chooses their own.
ShowHow far back
  Show
  Show - their own choice; everyone else uses the one above
How far ahead
When it runs
Speed slower faster
Colours
 
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Changes take effect at once - nothing to save. Pick 7 days and Tom shows every day that week, counting down: "on Friday", "tomorrow", "today". How far back: 100 years for birthdays means anyone who would be 100 or under; 70 years for weddings means the 70th anniversary or under - pick All, a number, or type your own. Living means no Died date recorded and born within the last 110 years. Divorced and annulled couples never show. Someone who has died shows as "would have been". Historical is everything further back than your years, as a quiet line on the day itself - "Today was Dave & Mary Smith's wedding anniversary (married 1910)". Hover over the banner to pause it; click a name to open their page. With nothing ticked, no banner runs. Colours: each kind colours its icon and names; Words colours the rest of each line (until you pick it, the rest follows the kind); Background and Line are the strip itself. Any colour at all can be picked - click a square. On a person's page: the first page you open after each run gets its own pass, and a pass already running follows you between the tree and a page.
Small words in names
Words like "de" or "van" render small on every plaque.
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Global rule: any of these words, in any name, renders small on the plaque. Takes effect on every card when you press Save. Comma separated.
Birth surname on cards
The house pills at the top of each card already show the birth family.
Crowns
Crowns above kings, queens and emperors - and which picture hangs above which rank.
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v28.28: remembered in this browser only, so a relative on the website can turn them off without changing the tree. Takes effect at once - nothing to save.
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v28.30: which picture hangs above which rank. The pictures are files in media\ (transparent WebP or PNG, about 800 px wide; the name must start with _ornament_ so it can never clash with a person's picture); deploy_tree.py takes them to the website like any other picture. Width is a percentage of the card's width. Saved into the tree with the Save button on this card, so the website shows the same crowns.
Archive
People taken off the tree - kept whole, and Restore puts any of them back.
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People taken off the tree wait here for 60 days \u2013 every record and every link it had is kept, and Put back brings it all back in one click. After 60 days they are cleared for good.
People builder
Paste a Wikipedia address to gather that person and their family into one list, and see how each one fits your tree.
How far
Gather
the pages your tree links to, edited since you last looked, come back as cards
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Every search adds to the same list, oldest first, and nobody is listed twice - a person found again just gains the new relationship. The list stays until you clear it, ready for when you come back. Nothing is added to your tree from here yet. Each person gets a colour: green is ready to add because someone they are related to is already on your tree, orange has no connection yet, grey might already be on your tree (the name and dates look right, but there is no Wikipedia link to prove it), and red is already on your tree. The check links open that person read-only in a new tab. Father to father and Mothers and fathers follow parents only, whatever is ticked, and Stop keeps everything found so far.
Houses and dynasties the builder has learned
When a house belongs to a bigger dynasty - Capet to Capetian, say - the builder remembers it, from Wikipedia or from a dynasty you typed when adding or merging, and fills it in for everyone of that house from then on. Change a dynasty here and it is used from the next person on; nothing already on your tree changes.
GEDCOM file
Choose a GEDCOM file (.ged) from another family tree site to see who is in it, and how each one fits your tree.
We keep a web-sized copy to show on your tree – your originals stay safely with you.
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The file is read on your own computer and never sent anywhere. Nothing is added to your tree from here yet, and the list is kept only while this page is open - choose the file again to bring it back. Each person gets a colour: red is already on your tree (the same name and the same full birth date), grey might already be on your tree (the name and dates look right - a married woman is also looked for under her husband's surname), green is ready to add because someone they are related to in the file is already on your tree, and orange has no connection yet. Names in the list take you to that person's row; the check links open someone on your tree read-only in a new tab.
Loose ends
Nothing here is wrong. These are the gaps the tree has noticed, for whenever you have a minute. Open a section to see 50 at a time (or 25, 75 or 100 - each section keeps its own); click a name and the page opens in a new tab so your place here is kept. Snooze puts one away for a while, for the whole family. Each section has its own Snoozed and Never show again lists, so anything put away can be brought back. The arrows put the sections in the order you like.
Tidy spellings
Fold the family’s different spellings of the same answer into one - “The Betles” and “the beatles” into “The Beatles”. Each fold is one save, so it is in Recent Activity and can be undone.
Tidy
Rename the ticked ones to
Remembered matches
Once two spellings are ruled the same, the tree remembers - for the whole family: typing the old one in Edit offers the right one, and if it turns up again it waits at the top of this card to be folded in. The × forgets a match. “Not the same” is remembered too, so a pair is never asked about twice. Nothing is ever joined on its own.
Known places
Every place spelling on the tree, as it was written, with the spelling we want beside it. Type our spelling and press Save - everyone who holds the old spelling is put right, the place is added to their Other locations, and on a job the words as written are kept in brackets before it; a Places & events line keeps its own words and the place still lands in Other locations. Where the tree has already learned a spelling, it is filled in for you to accept. Snooze puts a place away for a while, for the whole family. Search for a place and every variant comes together; Set all shown to fixes them in one go. The × forgets a pairing.
Runs every pairing over the whole tree again, so everyone who holds an old spelling is put right - including pairings saved before they did that.
Add one
Occupations (jobs) from old records
Jobs found in Places & events that are not in anyone’s Occupation yet. Each line is split into the job title, the date and the location as recorded - correct any of them, and put our spelling beside the location. Save puts the job, date and our spelling into Occupation and Other locations, with any tags still waiting - the old line stays exactly as it was recorded. The job title is suggested as a tag (and the country, where the place makes it clear) - take one off with its ×. Every press is one save, in Recent Activity with Undo.
Member requests and questions
Requests from the family wait here for you or another tree admin. Whoever answers first, the others see it’s done.
Done
The whole tree
Pictures taken off a record land here. Restore puts a picture back where it came from. Anything still here after 60 days is cleared for good.
Your awards
Earned as your tree grows.
Acorncoming soon
Shootcoming soon
Branchcoming soon
Treecoming soon
Your tally
Coming soon.
Change my password
Your current password first, then the new one.
At least 8 characters. A short sentence you will remember works well.
Any other phone or computer you are signed in on will ask you to sign in again.
Your email, password and sign-in are in My account – one place for all your trees.
Member messages
The tree’s owner always gets these, so someone always knows.
Change my email
We send a link to the new address. Until you press it, you keep signing in with .
The address you would like to sign in with.
To make sure it really is you.
Sign out everywhere
Lost a phone, or signed in on someone else's computer? This signs you out on every phone and computer, this one too. You just sign in again.
Delete my account
This deletes your login and your email and password from our side. Your card on any tree you’re on stays as it is – it belongs to your family’s record. To take yourself off a tree, do that from your card on that tree. If you come back one day, you’ll start with a new login.
Your password
To make sure it really is you.
Safe edit
Shows the × that detaches a relationship in Edit, and the Replace buttons beside parents and partners. Off by default; once on, it stays on on this computer until you switch it off.
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Off by default, so you never arrive in it by accident. Once on it is remembered on this computer only (v29.72) and a red bar at the top says so until you switch it off. Takes effect at once - nothing to save.
Delete this tree
Moves the WHOLE tree to the bin, where it is kept for 90 days. Type the number of people to confirm.
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To delete the whole tree you type the number of people in it, so it cannot happen by a slip. Nothing is destroyed: the tree goes to the bin and is kept there for 90 days, and the bin page puts it back with one button.
Your message
The date
Countdown
Who sees it
Shown once, on the date you pick, after the countdown you choose - then it goes. Everyone decides in their own Settings whether they see remembrances at all. "My family" and "My grand family" are the people on your Family view and Grand family view.
What are you announcing?
Wedding date
Your message (optional)
How long it shows
Who sees it
Shown from today for as long as you choose. "Our family" and "Our grand family" are the people on either of your Family views and Grand family views. The date is set also becomes your planned wedding date, so the banner counts down to the day. Everyone decides in their own Settings whether they see announcements at all.
Safe edit is on You are editing in Safe edit — it stays on until you switch it off, here or in Settings.
Read-only check — close this tab when you're done.

Family Coats of Arms

Coats per row
Houses without a coat of arms are not shown in this Gallery View.
The coats of arms shown here are representations – often an imagined idea of what a family’s arms may have looked like – and should not be used as a historical reference.
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Press Back again to leave the tree
Line rules: teal with red on top = a parent who shares blood (bloodline) teal = a parent (not by blood) sand dotted = a relationship, not a partnership thin red = bloodline through an unknown ancestor gold = married platinum = civil partnership silver = engaged grey = partners (no marriage recorded) status not set (grey unless you colour it in Settings) glowing card = your direct ancestor (whoever is viewing) dotted brown = separated / divorced / dissolved (status, horizontal only) dotted dark grey = annulled ash = widowed (black corner = the partner who died) dotted gold = married, then ended - how not known yet dashed blue = step context dashed lavender = Dad’s / Mum’s partner (with the family, not called step) red dash-dot = half-sibling marker long dashed blue = adopted coral dash-dot = foster solid red = a probable parent (the birth red unless you change it) amber dotted = a possible parent (not certain) sky dashed = donor rose dashed = surrogate both together = the link is recorded as blood and adopted light grey = unknown parents (no claim made) dotted green = a family pet hover a card: a step link dashes for ONE generation - blood below it stays red