Valerie. A friend of mine has Tighe ancestors from Ireland and/or Scotland if that's any help.
On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 10:23, <vbgar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Douglas – are you part of the TIGHE family connected to BINION’s ? > > > > Cheers from Valerie Garton nee Vaughan in sunny Sydney > > > > *From:* LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> *On > Behalf Of *Douglas James Tighe > *Sent:* Wednesday, 9 February 2022 8:23 PM > *To:* Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Hinting for FamilySearch Individuals/content > > > > Hi Cathy, > > > > Are you stilly officially involved with or are giving help freely. > > If that is so thank you for the wonderful help you gave to all of us, > really appreciated. > > > > Regards > > > > Douglas TIGHE in sunny Queenskand > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On 9 Feb 2022, at 05:33, B Akin <ba...@rochester.rr.com> wrote: > > Thank you very much Cathy for your time and effort in replying. It is > very helpful! > > I've also spent some time in the Help section for L-FS Integration > tool. Between help and your reply, I have a better understanding. Maybe > even of the numbers...104 "new matches/links" since last matching, 299 "old > matches/links", 1741 "old" not matched now less the 104 "new matches-new > links" yields the 1637 "not matched" and 403 (299+104) linked now shown in > L-FS when I play with the current filter pull down menu. > Agreed, I will have to go through the auto-matched (double yellow > arrows) and convince myself that the matching makes sense. > Also, I found I can "see" the Legacy FS ID in the bottom left corner of > the L-FS main screen under the details tab. > Again, Thanks Cathy for you help. > B. Akin > > > On 2/7/2022 8:56 PM, Cathy Pinner wrote: > > B Akin, > > The FamilySearch hints have always only been available for people with a > FS ID. FamilySearch hints record hints to the FamilySearch tree and those > hints are sent on via the Hinting API. Whether or not they are accepted or > rejected or whatever terms FS uses is not whether you've accepted them - > maybe the term is confirmed - but whether someone using the FS tree has. > > When you use the Legacy FamilySearch Integration module, any time you > confirm that the FS tree person found is your person, the FS ID is added to > your person in Legacy. That's the only thing transferred. You have total > control over other data both ways. > > If you have used Auto Match in LFS you'll have yellow arrows. You need to > check each one and unlink if it's found the wrong person. Some people find > it highly accurate and others, like me, highly inaccurate. It depends on > your family and perhaps where you live in the world. If you go person by > person you may have a better success rate - and you may as well as you > should check the auto matched people. > Or you may want to search on the website if it doesn't auto find the match > and then enter the found FS ID in Legacy. There have been some recent > issues with the matching via LFS. > I only attempt to link a group at a time and use the filters to get just > the ancestors or descendants of someone using the Edit button in the Left > pane. When you match someone you can use the chain links to link their > surrounding relatives to their equivalent in the FS tree. They show blue > when already linked or just a grey shadow when not. > > No one should be duplicated in the FamilySearch tree but in reality there > are heaps of duplicates - many created by FS themselves as they added > things like Parish Register transcriptions into the tree. This means that > if someone had 12 children baptised and were themselves baptised and > married, they are in the tree 14 times. Those 14 need to be merged by > someone - and the spouse also probably has at least 14 duplicates that need > to be merged and each child is duplicated multiple times ... It's a big job > that I've only tackled for some of my direct ancestors. You can merge in > LFS though I find it easier to merge on the website - but it still takes > hours. I screenshot or write down the FS ID of each child at least as I > have too often found I've orphaned children and they need to be > reconnected. The FamilySearch help has guidance on how to do all this. > Merging duplicates is far easier than undoing incorrectly merged and linked > people. I did have a win this week. I messaged someone around Christmas as > I found they had my Matilda Harris born in London, marrying in Ohio in > 1850, having a child in Canada in 1851 whereas I knew she was single in > London in the 1851 census and still single in London in 1871. They've > sorted it out. > > So no you don't enter more than one person or more than one FS ID in > Legacy. You do the work to merge the duplicate instances in the FS tree. If > you are not sure they are duplicates, then obviously you don't merge. In > that case you may want to enter the possible duplicate as a separate person > in Legacy in order to record your research to find out. > > You can see in Legacy who has a FS ID entered by going to Search > Find > > Detailed Search and doing this search. > Individual > FamilySearch ID > not equal to > <leave blank> > OR by going to Legacy FamilySearch and using the filters in the left pane > to choose just those linked to FS. > > I think your different numbers suggest that some people were already > linked and the auto-matching added another group. > > Note only you can see yourself on FamilySearch. Living people are only > visible to the person who added them so Legacy FamilySearch can't match any > living people unless you're the one who added them perhaps. I'm the only > living person I've added and I can't recall how my FS ID was entered into > Legacy. > > Cathy > > B Akin wrote: > > > Hello, I spotted something that is "new to me" (maybe forgotten?? ) > in Cathy's response on a separate issue (Cathy's abbreviated reply > below). My specific question relates to this comment. "FamilySearch > hints only work if you have the FamilySearch ID entered for the person > concerned. FS hints to the FS tree and passes on those hints." > I had noted for quite a while that I was not getting any > FamilySearch Hints.(Oops on my part, after viewing Customize 8.13 - > I've had FS turned off for some time and obviously forgot. Now On and > refreshing.) I seem to remember that I was getting hints for FS when > hinting was first introduced. Wasn't this hinting originally on > "records" and not the later "Tree"? But the above reply seems to imply > that I now have to enter all FamilySearch ID's into Legacy for the > hinting of FamilySearch to work properly. > 1) Is this correct? (After reading "Help" for Hinting for > FamilySearch - clearly says needs FS ID. ) So, Yes, need FS ID > answering my own question. > I guess it doesn't really matter when or how this happened. I > guess I have to deal with it. > 2) Follow up question... Is there a way to automatically enter the > FamilySearch ID into the database? If so, pros and cons of doing > automatically? Going one by one would be very tedious. > Have been looking at FS-Legacy Link screen and I do not see a "data > exchange" arrow for the FS ID. > 2.1) What about FS duplicates? Can I enter two FS ID's into Legacy > - maybe separated by a comma??? Would guess more likely answer is to > create duplicate into Legacy - not my desired path. I have, a couple > of times, corrected FS "tree" records - but learning curve is way, way > too steep - too much of my time. > I've used the FamilySearch-Legacy link and done matching. But in > all honesty, never bothered to enter the FS ID number into Legacy on a > regular basis - some there, vast majority not entered. I do not do > source data exchanges between FS and Legacy - by choice. > Since I was trying to answer my own questions, I "auto-matched" my > Legacy people with FS. At the end, there is a summary screen of the > auto-match process.... > Individuals in Filtered List: 2,040 My people in Legacy > database. (794 shown as living) > Individuals not linked to FS: 1,741 What does this mean? No > FS ID in my Legacy or not enough detail in my > Legacy DB to match with FS Tree or Not in FS Tree at all or something > else? > If 1741 not in FS Tree - then hinting not very helpful, since FS is my > primary data > "record" source(free) generating my Legacy database in the first place. > Difference - 299 - implied linked, but yet, below, only shows 104 matched. > is > there a difference between linked and matched? > > Auto Matching Completed: 104 matched > 1,741 processed. > The number matched seems very low. Is this typical? > Also, I am in my Legacy DB (all details) and in the FS > Tree (forced to add myself to "hide" a living relative who someone had > marked as deceased - Only way per FS). But, I did not auto-match. What > does auto-match look at to generate a match? In FS tree, me(name, no > data) linked to mother(name, birth date and place only, father not > shown), to grand-parents would be sufficient to match, but yet, no > auto-match. > (Sorry, getting into a second question here...) > > I look forward to the list's guidance. > Thanks, B. > > > > > > ------ Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Hints - FindMyPast - "Invalid cookie header" > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 21:16:38 +0800 > From: Cathy Pinner <genea...@gmail.com> <genea...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> > <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> > To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> > <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> > > > > Ian, > > FindMyPast hints are working though there is sometimes a problem if > you try to access them when they've expired. The dots aren't updated > as quickly on the Name List etc. Hints are best accessed from Family > View to avoid this. > I'd clear your browser cache to see if that removes the error you're > getting if that's not the issue. > > There is a known problem with MyHeritage hints. They're currently not > working at all. > > FamilySearch hints only work if you have the FamilySearch ID entered > for the person concerned. FS hints to the FS tree and passes on those > hints. > > I find FMP hints helpful. I don't take much notice of others. > The search isn't done after you click the orange ball but before. The > Hints window opens and you click the pane to access the hint results > in your browser. > > If you want to set up a search from Legacy use Search > Internet > Search for the relevant website. These cover far more than the 4 > hinting sites, one of which is only useful for US researchers. > > Cathy > > > > > -- > > 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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