tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post1895810829852079201..comments2024-03-19T01:26:04.572-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: Dear Randy: Why Don't You Attach All Pertinent Records to Your Ancestry Member Tree?Randy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-52074911387778947202014-12-01T16:26:08.493-08:002014-12-01T16:26:08.493-08:00>> A "grading process" scale for a...>> A "grading process" scale for a user to select ...<br /><br />That would be lovely. I think it's useful to set the bar low when you're trying to figure out who is who, so I go ahed and attach the source. <br /><br />Now that I'm in "cleaning" mode, I want to start pruning. and ancestry.com is really just not helpful. Instead, I'm recreating my tree into wikitree with primary or researched-secondary references. It's slow going, but worth it. Having decided to stop treating my ancestry.com tree as authoritative, I'm liberated from a lot of the "wants" I would have if I were trying to clean it up, but I'm also at a point where I don't want hints that are closer to rumor than verifiably true...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05890473511273535677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-30961627927730045352014-03-21T11:35:51.393-07:002014-03-21T11:35:51.393-07:00Great article Randy. Thanks.
To your list of non-...Great article Randy. Thanks.<br /><br />To your list of non-records for New England I would like to add these compilations:<br /><br />Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2, <br />the profile part at "Profiles and Historical Records", AND <br />Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s.<br /><br />The transcriptions often have "before" and "after" that appear in the printed index but people seldom click on the image to actually read it, depending instead on a straight copy from the index that appears.<br /><br />The discontinued LDS IGI (index) data is just being recycled in the form of the Green Leaf Hints. Most of the hints were compiled by a computer sweep through submitted trees and family group sheets from years ago when almost every beginner used the LDS site and copied straight off it because they thought "if the Mormons have it on their site it must be true." <br /><br />These hints in many cases are turning out to match exactly (even the errors match exactly) the submittals in the IGI file which is still accessible on the new Family Search (LDS) site if you know where to look. I go there to check out duplicated mistakes. They've taken off the feature that allowed us to see what date the AF or PRF was first submitted which used to be a big help in seeing who the first person to invent a date or person was.<br /><br />I have been adding comments in the left column on a lot of the green leaf hints I've been getting--trying to send people to the authorities or documentation for each event. If I find an image that doesn't belong to that person I click on it and leave a comment on the View Media page. That comments get sent by Ancestry to everyone who ever saved that image. It's about the only way to get the word out because beginners don't know how to use message boards anymore.Shirleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490765007501415686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-10417945698230395052014-03-21T08:34:03.359-07:002014-03-21T08:34:03.359-07:00Like you, I'm concerned that we have no option...Like you, I'm concerned that we have no options in responding to shaky leaves or other hints. Often I find erroneous information that I'd love to correct or at least comment upon, rather than simply rejecting without cause.<br />Faxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14160490778082617475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-88752428701954657982014-03-20T13:14:41.377-07:002014-03-20T13:14:41.377-07:00Good points. Now I am going to add a new clean up ...Good points. Now I am going to add a new clean up task to delete the duplicate source records that are crapping up my tree. I know I have a lot of them when I have the original source. Clean up and genealogy just never end.Laurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09312025277661530407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-57382572523322990632014-03-19T20:01:46.903-07:002014-03-19T20:01:46.903-07:00I really appreciate your post and learned quite a ...I really appreciate your post and learned quite a bit about some of the titles of Ancestry's sources. Some of these titles I already avoided, but now I'll know I can use some to find an original source! And, I'll know to avoid some others. Thanks... I learned a lot in just a couple of minutes reading your post!Dana Leedshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09387705697369311607noreply@blogger.com