Ancestry hint.

[David Nicoll]

Just to be contrary. I think the whole system is pretty amazing.
It has found me links I would never have found on my own.
They are hints, Ancestry can’t be blamed if humans blindly accept them as correct.
The one change I would make would be to be able to park hints.
I started rejecting wrong ones, but gave that up because I was always going, it is wrong for that person, but right for some other person in the tree and could never force the system to find the entry for the correct spot in the tree, to hand transcribe.
So on balance I will take the system as it is.
Roll on the AI document reading, I have seen a couple where it has managed an astonishing job, I can do better but largely because I know the obscure Aberdeenshire farm names being referenced.
Sorry turned into a bit of a rant 🙂

[Biggles50]

Just to be contrary. I think the whole system is pretty amazing.
It has found me links I would never have found on my own.
They are hints, Ancestry can’t be blamed if humans blindly accept them as correct.
The one change I would make would be to be able to park hints.
I started rejecting wrong ones, but gave that up because I was always going, it is wrong for that person, but right for some other person in the tree and could never force the system to find the entry for the correct spot in the tree, to hand transcribe.
So on balance I will take the system as it is.
Roll on the AI document reading, I have seen a couple where it has managed an astonishing job, I can do better but largely because I know the obscure Aberdeenshire farm names being referenced.
Sorry turned into a bit of a rant 🙂

Tis good to rant.

[coombs]

Some hints have been fab to be fair. One hint opened up on my great gran, and the fact that she was baptised again, as a teenager in Stamford Hill, London, as she was in a convent nearby at the time. The hint showed a baptism, and the details matched, from DOB to parents names and occupations. And it filled in much of her movements between her birthplace of Oxford in 1905,. and 1911 census when she was in Sussex by then.Until then I had no idea she spent time in London.

[David Nicoll]

Exactly that, I found people on the boat to Buenos Aires, would never even have thought to look …

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

I initially rejected the hint that a child born in 1879 died in 1878 but went back to it after finding 17 trees show it happened. There's no way they can all be wrong and just little old me be right 

[coombs]

I like to always check the original not just the transcription. Many people did not sign but left a mark but even a mark can be handy and distinctive. It is such an event that has made me cast doubt on others research that someone born in 1760 was the same guy who wed in a nearby parish in 1782. The 1760 guy witnesses a marriage, and the mark looks quite different to the namesake who left their mark in 1782. Always do your own research.

[jc26red]

I initially rejected the hint that a child born in 1879 died in 1878 but went back to it after finding 17 trees show it happened. There's no way they can all be wrong and just little old me be right 

Oh it can! years ago, I rather naively sent my tree to someone, very distantly related who then shared it over and over on Ancestry. I then found an error in my tree and corrected my mistake but all the shares still have the error, an additional child (baptised but no birth record, went back to my original records I transcribed at the RO to double check and it wasn’t there so I must have been seeing things at the time!  😵‍💫) Not one of the copied trees checked my records

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

I initially rejected the hint that a child born in 1879 died in 1878 but went back to it after finding 17 trees show it happened. There's no way they can all be wrong and just little old me be right 

Oh it can! years ago, I rather naively sent my tree to someone, very distantly related who then shared it over and over on Ancestry. I then found an error in my tree and corrected my mistake but all the shares still have the error, an additional child (baptised but no birth record, went back to my original records I transcribed at the RO to double check and it wasn’t there so I must have been seeing things at the time!  😵‍💫) Not one of the copied trees checked my records

I've built the trees of several mystery matches and shown my grandmother is an NPE but my known matches don't research, they just copy the crowd and think they are descendants of William the Conqueror, Robert the Bruce and King Arthur. Strangely none of those are in my tree though my grandmother is the MRCA we all share.

[coombs]

On Ancestry I have even had parent suggestions where the person himself is suggested as the father, and the person's wife is suggested as the mother, or the brides "potential parents" are the grooms parents.