I found Geneanet useful for finding German ancestors who lived near the French
border or in the Duchy of Lorraine. In most of Europe, borders shifted many
times over the centuries. Also, during the time of the German Holy Roman
Empire, there were French enclaves and exclaves in German states,
principalities etc.
John
From: Chris Hill
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2019 4:31 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Hints - MyHeritage
It might be French based but it does cover Europe better than the others.
Regards
Chris
>From my Motorola G6+
On Sun, 8 Sep 2019, 19:15 Cindy Custer, <custerc...@comcast.net> wrote:
Geneanet is a French site – no good for German research!
From: LegacyUserGroup On Behalf Of Andrew Robbie
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2019 2:11 PM
To: 'Legacy User Group' <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Hints - MyHeritage
Thanks Chris – very useful. Good sharing!
Andrew
P.S. I’m always learning, so should share… Israelian Israeli J
From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> On Behalf Of
Chris Hill
Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2019 6:56 PM
To: Legacy User Group <LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Hints - MyHeritage
Hi
On the very bottom line where there are the three people you can specify as
shortcuts. Double-click on the 1 before the first name - don't think it is the
right click but my PC is currently down. It will show you the stats and a few
options. Does not seem to be in the help index, or not obvious.
MyHeritage is Israelian, as I recall, and probably started with good European
links, but has grown to try and match Ancestry.
FindMyPast is UK based and good for UK information, and has been extending to
cover the ex-UK colonies and USA.
GenealogyBank seems to be USA only in terms of content.
FamilySearch is the LDS site and is very strong on USA and Europe, and
growing elsewhere, with the target of building a single tree for the world
(which FindMyPast has also suggested for UK based on users trees).
The other sites are obviously Ancestry which good for USA, UK, Europe,
Canada, Australia and NZ. Genealogist is a UK site and Geneanet is a European
site.
My biggest issue is that all have some common information and then each have
different collections of various information, so you need to search through
many of them, certainly in the UK.
Regards
Chris
From my Motorola G6+
On Sat, 7 Sep 2019, 22:34 Andrew Robbie, <andrew.rob...@comcast.net> wrote:
Chris/Cathy/et al,
Curious – where exactly is that hints status info? Chris mentioned “right
click on the 1 button in the bottom right line” – which ‘1’ button on which
window/view is that on? Images are appreciated, even if not recommended on
this forum… J
And regarding these services, who can chime in regarding their usefulness
in certain regions, periods, etc. of research? I know mileage may vary based
on your lineage and study geos/timelines…
My take
MyHeritage: Seems to be merged/merging with FamilySearch now…
FamilySearch: I like the XXXX-XXX unique numbering system, and Legacy’s
Family Search tool (accessed from the D icon) that helps manage and merge
Legacy records with Family Search. I must admit, I don’t see many hits in this
category anymore, maybe since I have all my FS IDs covered now. Others’
opinions?
FindMyPast: Mainly advertises as UK and NAM, but I find most of my hits
only come from UK. I need Australia and New Zealand hits also. Anyone got
other perspectives?
GenealogyBank: does show info in config that this is mostly American
history for past 300 years (this is useful to know before subscribing). I do
not subscribe to this service currently. I do find that it shows many hundreds
of hits, maybe due to simply name match (no dates considered) but are these
hits useful? Also, no Canada hits despite advertising US and Canada coverage.
Anyone got any other observations?
Thanks,
Andrew ROBBIE
From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> On Behalf
Of Chris Hill
Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2019 5:58 AM
To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Hints - MyHeritage
Hi
Yes, I asked the question about the speed of Hints appearing or not,
after I reset my tree to reset the Hints list.
The first response was that the Hints list is not the list of
individuals in the tree, mine was 3,000 vs 11,850, but it is driven by the
number of individuals that you have opened in the Family or Pedigree views.
That has become obvious to me over the last couple of weeks and the list is now
4,187 long.
The other response was on the speed in which they are processed. My
stats, right click on the 1 button in the bottom right line, now show
My Heritage: Pending 1655 Waiting 2146 Processed 386
GenealogyBank : Pending 537 Waiting 3056 Processed 595
FindMyPast : Pending 0 Waiting 1
Processed 4186
Pretty well, the FindMyPast responses are immediate, while MyHeritage
and GenealogyBank are delayed. I was told that MyHeritage has put delays on how
fast it will process them, presumably as a way of controlling the load on its
servers. One question is 'what does Waiting mean' - has Legacy flagged it as
being ready to ask or has it actually been sent but not responded, which would
ask the question of what happens if the response back is made while Legacy is
closed and does Legacy reissue the request.
Looking at the stats dynamically I can see that both the Waiting and
Processed values increasing while the Pending is decreasing. In terms of
responses, while writing this email over 10 minutes, I can see that My Heritage
has processed another 5 requests and GenealogyBank another 2. Neither of those
seem to be a sensible way to deal with requests.
Regards
Chris
------ Original Message ------
From: ambro...@telstra.com
To: "Legacy User Group" <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
Sent: 07/09/2019 09:48:51
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Hints - MyHeritage
Thank you Cathy for your reply back in July about the slowness of
MyHeritage hints. I was hopeful that the subsequent release of 9.0.0.318 would
improve the situation but not so. Below is a support ticket I raised yesterday
and the support response. I would be interested to know if other users are
having a similar experience with MyHeritage hints and if anyone has any
explanations or suggestions about this issue. (I have subscriptions to
Ancestry, FMP and MyHeritage but the latter is very good for direct access to
living cousins.)
Regards Ambrose (GSV member)
Support Ticket query (6 Sep 2019): Now that we have a new version
:9.0.0.318 of Legacy I had hoped that MyHeritage hints would be back working as
it did from the start of Legacy 9 until about the start of May. Unfortunately
not. I can see that the Realtime Hint Processing Monitor has been enhanced with
a Waiting (being throttled) column being added plus new or amended Help. In the
previous version of Legacy I had to turn off MyHeritage hints as it kept
crashing with ‘Legacy Family Tree Hints has stopped working’ every 5 minutes.
This reset MyHeritage Hints and I now have 4574 in the Waiting (being
throttled) column. I have had it running continuously today for 11 hours and
the Waiting number has reduced by 87 or about 8 per hour. I am using a very
fast PC and internet connection. At this rate it will take 570 hours to
complete or 2 months if I leave Legacy running for 10 hours per day (despite
the advice to close Legacy when not in active use).
Is this the way MyHeritage Hints is now meant to work? The really
disappointing aspect of this is that you don’t see the hint immediately that
you add or amend an individual. It just adds numbers to Pending and then almost
immediately moves the number to Waiting. It really is pretty pointless having a
hint arrive weeks later with no notification that it has turned up.
I took a MyHeritage subscription 2 years ago at Geoff’s special
guaranteed lifelong (???) price to make the most of MyHeritage Hints. The
subscription is due for renewal next Tuesday but if this throttling is the new
normal I don’t see much value in renewing it.
Support Response: All we have been told is that the hints may take some
time to show up. The hints continue to work in the background, and when new
hints are found, they will be displayed. We do care about your feedback and I
have forwarded your concerns to our developers.
-----Original Message-----
From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> On Behalf
Of Ian Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, 24 July 2019 7:55 AM
To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Hints - MyHeritage
I check Hints frequently - and have all 4 types turned on (even though
one of them requires a paid subscription to the company, and is no use to me).
Of course, I have the Deluxe version, 9, latest update always.
Over the period that Cathy Pinner has detailed, I have used Legacy at the
very least weekly, sometimes daily and for several hours. I "refresh" the
Hints, etc.
In that period of time, I have seen MyHeritage Hints only 3 times. As
someone mentioned in the last couple of days, FindMyPast generates them (in
spades).
Server outages, etc: why would anyone think that had anything to do with
the problem with MyHeritage Hints?
Ian Thomas
Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
-----Original Message-----
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Cathy Pinner
Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2019 7:58 PM
To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Hints - MyHeritage
The slowness of MyHeritage hints has nothing to do with the server
problems although it started around the same time. MyHeritage tweaked the API
for the hints which did something which is still being investigated.
Programmers and testers have been working on Hinting and some aspects will be
better in the next update but MH hints are still very slow.
FindMyPast hints are the quickest and I find the most useful. You may
find them useful even if you don't have a subscription as the Hint itself tells
you the database and you may have access to a similar one.
Cathy
ambro...@telstra.com <mailto:ambro...@telstra.com> Tuesday, 23 July 2019
5:10 PM
Hints from MyHeritage to Legacy have not been working for me since the
server problems started more than 2 months ago - very disappointing! Any
suggestions to fix this?
MyHeritage hints worked perfectly from the start of Legacy 9 up to May
this year and hints from FamilySearch and FindmyPast have worked perfectly all
the time.
The support response earlier this month was “We are still working on
this. Some users are reporting that hints are working great and some are
reporting the same problem you are. We are working on a new update that we hope
will address this. This update is in testing now.”
Regards Ambrose
*From:*LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> *On
Behalf Of *Ian Thomas
*Sent:* Tuesday, 23 July 2019 4:18 PM
*To:* Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
*Subject:* [LegacyUG] Hints - MyHeritage
Occasionally I see MyHeritage hints – very occasionally.
Just wondering why this is, or whether other people on this list are also
seeing the same.
Not sure if this link is persistent, but here is the latest Hint I have
seen –
https://www.myheritage.com/matchingresult-b55206f65aa8968d4e36513bce25ecb1
Regards, Ian
Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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