Steven,
Confirming a MyHeritage hint in Legacy adds nothing at all to your
Legacy database. All it does is give feedback to the MH programmers re
their hinting algorithm.
If you are in your MyHeritage tree, if you have one, if you accept a
Discovery then it adds everyone in the Discovery.
But there is no mechanism to add them to your Legacy database. Any good
researcher will ignore MyHeritage Discoveries for this reason. If they
are tantalising, find the person in the Smart Matches where you have
control over what is added to your tree.
So if the links (I think you mean FamilySearch ID's?) are in your chart
that was printed from Legacy then they're in your Legacy file and you
put them there or used the Legacy FamilySearch module and either used
the AutoMatch feature or agreed that this person in the FamilySearch
tree is the same as your person in your Legacy tree.
It may be that you opened an old file that still had the FS IDs in it or
you didn't actually remove them properly. You'd need to use Search >
Search and Replace on the FS-ID field, search for 1 anywhere in the
field and replace whole field with nothing then repeat for the other
numbers until they were all gone.
No one, no website can add anything to your Legacy database
automatically. The only exception is the FamilySearch ID IF you use the
Legacy FamilySearch module Automatch feature.
Cathy
steven perkins <mailto:scperk...@gmail.com>
Sunday, 8 September 2019 7:51 AM
A few months ago I thought that Legacy was importing links from Family
Search and I asked how to turn that off. After I got an answer I found
out that I did not have it turned on.
I went through my Legacy database and unlinked all the Family Search
links I had not added or confirmed.
A few weeks ago I printed a 15 generation pedigree chart report and
found many of the links had reappeared in my Legacy database. After
thinking about it, I believe these are automatically
made if you confirm a MyHeritage Hint request. It seems doing so for
one person adds all of their supposed siblings and ancestors. Is that
correct?
Several of my lines are ones people are always trying to link to some
famous people, even though there is historical documentation and DNA
to show the links are wrong.
I don't think any of the World Tree attempts have enough error
correction and just present an opportunity for people to make
conscious or mistaken links to enhance their ancestry. The ease of using
the Internet leads many people to take the bad links and run with them.
Really annoying.
Steven
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Chris Hill <mailto:chris.hill.11he...@gmail.com>
Sunday, 8 September 2019 6:56 AM
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+
Andrew Robbie <mailto:andrew.rob...@comcast.net>
Sunday, 8 September 2019 5:33 AM
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 <mailto:ambro...@telstra.com>
To: "Legacy User Group" <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
<mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>>
Sent: 07/09/2019 09:48:51
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Hints - MyHeritage
Chris Hill <mailto:chris.hill.11he...@gmail.com>
Saturday, 7 September 2019 5:58 PM
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
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