Another perspective on Ancestry hints
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Jun 18, 2012 @ 16:38:35
hi!
I read you messages often. I know you have a keen sense when it comes to genealogy. Are you ever for hire? I know little of my mother’s parents – one German, his father came from Austria; one Irish – her mother came over to the states at an early age. I found that information out of the US is harder to find (for me), than in state even though there is no family to talk to.
Linda
Jun 19, 2012 @ 06:35:51
Dear Mark,
I’m glad that you were able to find a hint to improve your genealogy. Of course, it is always wonderful to have a birth certificate or a baptism, but with various spellings of names, it is difficult to determine if you are adding the right information to your genealogy. Many cultures do have naming patterns and generally you have a clue when something doesn’t look right. However, it can become confusing with siblings naming their chilren the same. Sometimes parents get confused with children. Sometimes the children are found under the last name of a stepfather. Sometimes the youngest child of a couple belongs to a daughter or son. Like you, I do appreciate a new hint or lead because it may be a correction to what you have as well as providing other information. These worthwhile hints are a real find to a genealogist.
Jun 19, 2012 @ 06:59:42
Hi Linda… yes I do perform client work. Actually my daughter and I do. If you’d like to schedule time to chat I can let you know if I might be able to assist you in your family searches. …mark
Jun 19, 2012 @ 09:03:00
Hi Mark, good story and good advise. I use those little leaves with much caution but ever since it popped up a census record for my Gr. Grandfather living in CHICAGO of all places; and it turned out to be him for real, I always look at them. Turns out that after his wife died he closed his pharmacy and became a salesman for a drug company and was enumerated at the hotel in Chicago where he was living at the time. After many years of searching in his birth area of Maine and his family residence areas in Massachusetts the record was a breakthrough find.
Jun 25, 2012 @ 14:15:49
Hello, Mark…great posting! If I let unsubstantiated hints on Ancestry bother me I’d misdirect positive energy needed to find and analyze the many helpful clues I’ve actually found! I was taught to look at EVERYTHING out there, gather whatever falls into the “ballpark” and then do the research to substantiate it all! I am now heavily into the substantiation phase; the hint merely gives me a direction to start. I have spent time myself posting corrections and information that I have supported through research in my own family, only to have material questioned/ignored by other researchers. And so it goes…I love the detective work challenge contained in the hints! Sometimes the “far out” stuff is TRUE…again, great post!
Jun 25, 2012 @ 15:03:34
You are welcome JoAnn.