New Ancestry hints help

[Pheno]

It seems to me that a lot of the hints you get are a joke, in the last couple of days I have a hint for a marriage of a 1 year old boy and another for a different 1 year old on an electoral roll.

I am also seeing that Ancestry is pushing other Ancestry Trees on me as 'new hints'!  Most (98%) are ones which I had already dismissed as being either redundant, useless, or just completely wrong.  However, there has been the odd nugget and so I feel compelled to at least glance at them.  It's not like I've anything better to do... LOL.

Cheers
Ms_C (yes, locked down again - third wave hitting Toronto VERY hard.)

You can stop receiving hints for Ancestry trees by going to your Account (drop down in top right corner under your user name) and then site preferences.

I have turned all such hints off and never receive them so it does work.

Pheno

[~Rachel~]

You can stop receiving hints for Ancestry trees by going to your Account (drop down in top right corner under your user name) and then site preferences.

I have turned all such hints off and never receive them so it does work.

Pheno

Amazing! This is a game changer - thank you for bringing this up

[ms_canuck]

You can stop receiving hints for Ancestry trees by going to your Account (drop down in top right corner under your user name) and then site preferences.

I have turned all such hints off and never receive them so it does work.

Pheno

Yes, after I posted my comment I remembered that you can turn them off.  It's never bothered me before, but it just seemed to be getting a bit much!  So I have just turned off 'Other Ancestry Members' so that when I see a hint, I can assume it's worth my time to review it.  And I can always turn the other one on again if I want to check if I've missed anything.

Cheers
Ms_C

[Pheno]

If I feel I could do with seeing what someone else has on a particular person, via their tree, I simply use the search option from the top tab and use the drop down menu to select 'public member trees' for that name/place/date.  A convenient box appears indicating how many trees that person is in and if you then click 'view all' you get a list of them.

Conveniently for the public trees it tells you how many records & sources these trees contain so I go to the couple or so with the highest records and sources.

It dispenses with getting every 'tree' thrown at you and generally guides you to those trees that might be worth looking at.  I assume that those people who have bothered to attach records & sources are those people who do thorough research.

Pheno

[PaulineJ]

I assume that those people who have bothered to attach records & sources are those people who do thorough research.

Pheno

My feeling is that maybe they do, and maybe they don't but at least you can see what they have used as a basis for the tree.

Pauline

[Pheno]

Yes better said like that Pauline.

Pheno

[diplodicus]

not sure I agree. genealogy is often about finding that nugget hidden inthe mud (and I have 12,750 unviewrd hints!!!!).

i now try once each week to virw the “past seven days” hints and save any of interest to shoebox. i only need one hont for each perso as an-aide memoir.

[pharmaT]

If I feel I could do with seeing what someone else has on a particular person, via their tree, I simply use the search option from the top tab and use the drop down menu to select 'public member trees' for that name/place/date.  A convenient box appears indicating how many trees that person is in and if you then click 'view all' you get a list of them.

Conveniently for the public trees it tells you how many records & sources these trees contain so I go to the couple or so with the highest records and sources.

It dispenses with getting every 'tree' thrown at you and generally guides you to those trees that might be worth looking at.  I assume that those people who have bothered to attach records & sources are those people who do thorough research.

Pheno

Not necessarily.  I have thousands of sources and only relatively recently started logging them on the my Ancestry tree relatively recently.  It's a time consuming process so it will take a while to get them all on there.  Also, not one of my sources is an Ancestry tree.

[Pheno]

'Also, not one of my sources is an Ancestry tree.'

That's good as it means that you have done your own research, which is where I'd much rather take a hint from than from a copied tree.

In terms of sources it's good that you are now attaching them retrospectively but much easier if done at the time the fact is added.  Personally I would still go for the trees with attached sources as I can verify them.

Pheno