Incredible easy to use, a little buggy.
It’s incredible easier than indexing ever has been, truly.
Should I do this regardless? Yes. But the gamification of counting how many names I had done helped, and it seems to never work anymore, my June never changed after hundreds of names. It used to work, but seems to be broken.
Wish they had a little more rather than “unsure” but it’s overall simple enough. (Ability to add or subtract from what is highlighted would be nice)
The church apps all having light blue icons isn’t helping the fact that this app has the same color as most the apps, and same symbol as the other family search one, isn’t helping. The fact that “living” is a branch, but not part of family search adds to the confusion.
Should I do this regardless? Yes. But the gamification of counting how many names I had done helped, and it seems to never work anymore, my June never changed after hundreds of names. It used to work, but seems to be broken.
Wish they had a little more rather than “unsure” but it’s overall simple enough. (Ability to add or subtract from what is highlighted would be nice)
The church apps all having light blue icons isn’t helping the fact that this app has the same color as most the apps, and same symbol as the other family search one, isn’t helping. The fact that “living” is a branch, but not part of family search adds to the confusion.
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Amazing App!
Such a great way to volunteer my time! App is designed well.
Only in Spanish
I wanted to love this as I have been waiting for an app like this for a long time. However your development team needs to fix the language issues! The fact that I can’t change the language at all is just not ok. It is stuck on Spanish! It’s been stuck on Spanish for a month now. Fix your issues.
Disappointing
No way to make it open to English. Why are the only countries available are in South America? What about Europe and North America?
Useless to me.
Useless to me.
Only Central & South America Available
I enjoy the app and it is quite user friendly. I only have Hispanic countries available to pull from and so I’m not sure why I cannot index North America or Europe.
App does not recognize Apple language default setting; support is worthless
My default language is English. All of my apps recognize this except FamilySearch’s Get Involved app. There is no way to set a language in the app. Searching the developer’s site for support is worthless as it defaults to general support. There does not appear to be a place to provide meaningful feedback to the developer Searches for language settings on their “support” site only give instructions for changing it to something other than English. The result is that no matter what I do, the app presents me with Spanish names. Really disappointed.
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I don’t know Spanish
App only offers Spanish speaking countries. I can’t read Spanish. Deleted and re-downloaded, and same thing. Can’t find any option to focus on English speaking countries. Deleted app for good.
Addicting, but Bad Bugs
I love the opportunity to help review names, and the convenience of being able to use my iPhone to help family history progress! I can review names when waiting in line at the store or when I have a few minutes to spare. Easy.
There are several bugs in this app; but perhaps the worst is a newer bug that name swaps. When you click, “Incorrect Highlight” or hit the “Back” button, the contents of the text box gets stuck on the last name you reported as “Incorrect Highlight”, or approved as a “Match”. This can be corrected by clicking “Unsure”, but it took some experimenting to figure out.
A glitch that has been a problem for awhile is the thermometer/counter, which doesn’t work regularly once you get past about 300k names. I logged out and reloaded the app as a new app, and so far it is working again. In the meantime, I lost count of at least 300k names. :’(
I will still use the app, but worry about those who are not as motivated, who might get frustrated and leave.
There are several bugs in this app; but perhaps the worst is a newer bug that name swaps. When you click, “Incorrect Highlight” or hit the “Back” button, the contents of the text box gets stuck on the last name you reported as “Incorrect Highlight”, or approved as a “Match”. This can be corrected by clicking “Unsure”, but it took some experimenting to figure out.
A glitch that has been a problem for awhile is the thermometer/counter, which doesn’t work regularly once you get past about 300k names. I logged out and reloaded the app as a new app, and so far it is working again. In the meantime, I lost count of at least 300k names. :’(
I will still use the app, but worry about those who are not as motivated, who might get frustrated and leave.
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This is not familysesrch.com but
Downloaded this thing it was family search.com app. I can’t see any use for it. I have my family trees going back to 20AD!
App error
I have been able to review names and index on the website, but from the app I keep receiving a message that documents are not available from my country. I would like to do more from the app, but until I can get past this issue, I’ll have to stick to the website
