Getting very irritated with Ancestry UK

[Sonofsuffolk]

Is it just Ancestry? I've had similar from MyHeritage, especially 'new photos' which are just cartoons of coats-of-arms, or a 'soldier' or 'convict', not a phot at all. That's in addition to the spurious hints of family members who were never anywhere near the USA yet seem to have records there, and the tenth-cousin-three-times-removed's aunt's mother-in-law from Australia  'confirmed' by someone who's just copied from another tree. Also, I've put info on WikiTree or FamilySearch myself which MyHeritage then shows me as as a hint! Now they appear to have bought a French database (name escapes me) which links to the same hints so they now all appear again, with a new logo, as 'new'. The clutter is too much.

[rocala]

Sorry, I cannot comment here, I only use Ancestry. I chose it because I really like the design of the family tree layout and the profiles.

I suspect that their staff are under pressure to provide evermore. More is not always good but looks good on reports to the upper echelons.

[Andrew Tarr]

I don't intend to sound as if I support (or not) Ancestry's hint system, but I can't help thinking that it will be damned if it does or if it doesn't.  Without some system we know we will catch no surprises; with a 'system' in place there are bound to be irrelevant arrivals when there are almost unlimited possibilities of overlapping names.  After all they are only 'Hints' so it's up to recipients to find out what fits.  Most won't of course, but it's up to you.

If you expect the hint to check for date compatibility you must also expect it to take more computer time - always assuming that the checking rules allow for every possible event.