I personally published two trees on ancestry, maternal and paternal. The hints function hasn't helped me much more than to maybe fill out a place or make a date more precise..although in some cases I was able to find parents for people who married into my family. Having my trees up also alerted me to when someone put up a tree almost the exact same as mine, which clued me in that at least one of my cousins was doing research too (unfortunately it was my non-portuguese side)....The other hints I find, and this is usually from oneworldtree or people who have copied information directly from there is people who have parents and children listed that according to dates of birth there could be no way of happening. I've found them to be as little apart as 2 years, as far apart as 3 centuries....and the three centuries one was someone apparently having children 3 centuries before they were born.
I just make sure to check thoroughly before I accept a hint. as for people taking from my own tree? I'm still waiting for someone to do that to my portuguese tree in hopes that there is a connection. That is the good thing about it, when you have no more leads and no knowledge of family members, you might suddenly have a cousin you never knew pop up. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
