The current hinting I see as a start... and a good start at a competitive hinting system to ancestry. Hinting has been to this point one of ancestry '72 biggest advantages, and I like the ability to use multiple hinting sources... that said another advantage to ancestry has been attached images of the actual cited documents so you can download your own copy. That ability is also needed. As it has been use family search to search or expand tree without charge, you still seam to need Ancestry to document beyond a citation... actual image of a primary source document... so true competition will need to include those features at some point in the national databases. That is to say while the program as I see it is far and away the best, the free databases have some catching up to do. The ability to see and save a source document as part of a hint is primary as opposed to what may be a guess as to date from someone else's undocumented guess on their tree... goes to what is the quality and source of the information in a hint.
On Apr 21, 2017 9:28 AM, "Pete" <pete.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: > While this thread is about Hints, I have a slightly different, but > relevant observation. > > > > My family has been in the US since 1880. My research extends into > Ireland, where I have conducted extensive onsite research However, when I > attempt use a source (SourceWriter), there are no templates for major sites > in Ireland. Discussions with Legacy resulted in the statement “SourceWriter > templates are mostly geared for US sources”. > > > > I have requested that Legacy add the source templates for Ireland. They > have taken the request and placed it into the program bucket with a > suggested “High” priority. Without Legacy supporting the major archives, we > must “Hack” out way into recording data properly. > > > > My experience with this thread, suggests that Legacy may have a major > issue in supporting “foreign”/(non US) sites and data. > > > > Pete > > > > *From:* LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On > Behalf Of *Philip Solida > *Sent:* Friday, April 21, 2017 2:47 AM > *To:* Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with v9 Hints > > > > Perhaps as an American company, only us sites programed in for searches... > maybe worth a problem report to support? While I am American, as nearly all > Americans are immigrants at some point I also would like to see "foreign" > searches as eventually I need German, Swiss, and French records as well as > Irish and others. Hope that is not the case and just taking awhile to get > to searching the "foreign" sites. > > > > On Apr 21, 2017 2:35 AM, "Ian Beach" <ianbe...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I was looking forward to trying out the new HINTS part of Legacy 9 but so > far > I've been quite disappointed. > > 1. It's not finding anything that I haven't already entered (except see > point 2 > below). I can't be that good that I've found everything there is to find. > :) I > use mainly FindMyPast. > > 2. It IS finding all sorts of spurious hints from the USA even though all > my > entries are UK based. > > 3. If I "Reject" Hints (e.g. the US ones) the little orange hint icon > quantity > doesn't change and next time I run the hints all the Rejects have > reappeared. > > Any ideas? > > Ian > > -- > Ian Beach > College Grove, Western Australia > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/ > mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/ > mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > >
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