Learn to Use Hints More Effectively
on Ancestry.com
09/09/2015 From Ancestry.com
What are Ancestry Hints?
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The Shaky Leafs are Ancestry Hints designed to aid you in your family history research. They provide other records in our database that could possibly match the individual in your tree. These hints are automatically generated, and are there for you to determine whether or not the record hint matches the individual in your tree. We do not include all databases in the hints, as the hints are meant to help you find basic information for the people in your tree. There are many other record databases that are available through the normal search feature.
This article discusses the following: . . .
What are Ancestry Hints?
The instructions in this article pertain to our New Ancestry experience. If you are not yet using this experience and would like to switch, please click here for instructions.
The Shaky Leafs are Ancestry Hints designed to aid you in your family history research. They provide other records in our database that could possibly match the individual in your tree. These hints are automatically generated, and are there for you to determine whether or not the record hint matches the individual in your tree. We do not include all databases in the hints, as the hints are meant to help you find basic information for the people in your tree. There are many other record databases that are available through the normal search feature.
This article discusses the following: . . .
Hints on Ancestry
There are several ways to view hints on Ancestry.
There are several ways to view hints on Ancestry.
- When you hover your mouse over a person's name in the Family or Pedigree view of your tree.
Working with Hints
Once you get a hint, the next step is to determine if the record matches with the person in your tree. There are two main areas to review hints.
Reviewing hints from a person's profile page
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