The Bookmarks Sidebar

What Is the Bookmarks Sidebar?

Adding People to Bookmarks

Showing More Information in the Bookmarks Sidebar

Bookmarks Sets

Removing Names from Bookmarks

Sidebar Display Settings

Sharing the Bookmarks Sidebar

Marking People in the Bookmarks

What Is the Bookmarks Sidebar?

The Bookmarks sidebar is a collection of names available for instant recall. Much like the bookmarks in your browser, you decide who is added to the bookmarks and who gets removed. People can be added or removed anytime.

Bookmarks can also be broken into different sets. Bookmarks sets allow you to create a new list of bookmarks while keeping your original list of bookmarks intact. For example: you might have one set of bookmarks that you use when doing day-to-day data entry — and you might have a completely separate bookmarks set for an upcoming visit to a family history center.

Some people like to "fill" the bookmarks with one person from each "line" of their ancestors. For example, bookmarking only their eight great-grandparents and using them...like bookmarks!

To show the Bookmarks sidebar, click the Bookmarks button in the Sidebar list. To navigate to a person's record, simply click a name in the Bookmarks.

Adding People to Bookmarks

You can add people to the bookmarks by dragging and dropping a person's button into the Bookmarks sidebar or by dragging and dropping a person's button onto the Bookmarks button in the Sidebar list (in the navbar on the left).

To drag both the husband and wife on the current family to the Bookmarks, drag the marriage field to the Bookmarks list, or to the Bookmarks button in the Sidebar list.

Still another method for adding a person to the bookmarks is to click their Person menu button (the little in the upper-right corner of their button) and choose Add to Bookmarks. This menu also appears when Control-clicking a person's button.

Showing More Information in the Bookmarks Sidebar

The information (including the preferred picture) displayed for each person in the bookmarks list can be modified by clicking on the Sidebar Display Settings button at the bottom of the Bookmarks Sidebar.

For more information about Sidebar Display Settings, click here.

Bookmarks Sets

Bookmarks sets can be added, removed, renamed, rearranged and edited by clicking on the Bookmark sets button at the top of the Bookmarks sidebar.

When the Bookmark sets button is clicked a menu appears with the following options...

Removing Names from Bookmarks

Under the Bookmarks sidebar, in the bottom bar, you'll see a Remove button. Click this button to remove the person currently selected in the bookmarks list.

Here are three ways to remove names from the Bookmarks...

To clear the entire list of bookmarks, click on the Bookmark Sets button and select Clear this set from the menu.

Up to 2000 people can be included in each list of Bookmarks.
A maximum of 150 Bookmarks sets can be created.