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drodgers34
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Even partially ?
One thing about my ancestry is you can 'import' whole census families into your online tree, adding telations as well as the 'focus' person - something I'd been looking for for a while.
Even if you don't like the idea, you can do the research, then export a gedcom with all the census links nicely linked up.
You can even do a scan on ea person to see if anyone else hs an interest.
If, like me you have a concentration in a small village you can do a quick tree on all census entrues for the village, link them up with other censuses (and parents_ and also see who else has an interest in athe village.
You dont share ancestors (not that you khow - it is a small village after all - but you may be able to share local historical information
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DS
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One thing about my ancestry is you can 'import' whole census families into your online tree, adding telations as well as the 'focus' person
Hi
The problem is that you really need to double (or triple) check that all of the families that the "Ancestry Hints" system throws up, are actually the correct ones.
The "Ancestry Hints" system is not dissimilar, in essence, from the Genes Reunited "Hot Matches" system. Sometimes it hits upon the correct link but as many times, if not more, it throws up some utterly ludicrous suggestions.
I generally like and recommend Ancestry for its census records and other databases but, in my opinion, it is essential to search those records personally and thoroughly (or to ask someone to do so on your behalf if you do not have access) in order to try and be as certain as possible that the correct people have been identified. Anyone who relies on the suggestions that the Ancestry system throws up will almost certainly end up going the wrong way at some stage.
Although the "Ancestry Hints" system is (arguably) quite a clever bit of computing, it is very unreliable genealogically unless the suggestions are checked.
I think that Ancestry would be better without this "Hints" system and also without the absolutely dreadful "One World Tree" which, in my experience, is even more unreliable than the former.
Best wishes
DS 
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Nick29
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I'm not so bothered about the hints - I wouldn't want to lose those, because you occasionally get a gem amongst all the duds. What I would really like to see on Ancestry is a better way of editing the tree, when you mistakenly import the wrong data. There's currently no way of lopping off an incorrect branch other than manually, starting at the bottom and working up, and even then you can be left with "orphans" who you can only spot in the full alphabetical listings, and this becomes increasingly difficult as the numbers of people in the tree rises.
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Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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drodgers34
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My thougts are to use it to create a quick and dirty gedmom, download it ad use a conventional program to tidy it up.
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Nick29
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The problem is that you can't upload a new gedcom file to overwrite your existing tree - you have to delete the whole thing and start a new one, and then you lose any photos, documents, notes, etc, that you have uploaded to it.
My best solution to finding orphans in Ancestry is to download a gedcom file from Ancestry, then use a program called The Complete Genealogy Reporter (the GedPad part of it) to list orphans, then manually delete them from the Ancestry tree.
P.S. The Gedpad part is freeware - the full version of The Complete Genealogy Reporter will cost you about £15.
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Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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stonechat
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I always keep my tree on FTM, and upload or delete and reupload every time
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Douglas, Varnden, Joy(i)ce Surrey, Clarke Northants/Hunts, Pullen Worcs/Herefords, Holmes Birmingham/USA/Canada/Australia, Jackson Cheshire/Yorkshire, Lomas Cheshire, Lee Yorkshire, Cocks Lancashire, Leah Cheshire, Cook Yorkshire, Catlow Lancashire
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