tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post1567119909461290316..comments2024-03-26T21:29:07.190-07:00Comments on Rejoice, and be exceeding glad...: Is Genealogy Getting Easier? FamilySearch will add automatic record searchingJames Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-27596731611515241162014-05-30T06:29:48.150-07:002014-05-30T06:29:48.150-07:00Thanks for the additional information. We can alwa...Thanks for the additional information. We can always hope that rather than copying existing search engines they can do it better than the others. James Tannerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3793782800729950147.post-63731269335457361722014-05-30T05:08:36.189-07:002014-05-30T05:08:36.189-07:00Instead of waiting, you can review this feature no...Instead of waiting, you can review this feature now at https://beta.familysearch.org. It seems to work rather amazingly well. It has a couple of features that appear quite helpful. <br /><br />If an internal FamilySearch source is already attached, i.e., it shows the tree icon beside it rather than the globe icon, the source does not appear in the hints list. <br /><br />Also, you can declare a source "Not A Match" and it will disappear from the list. <br /><br />You can work on attaching the sources in the hint list directly from the individual's page or click "Show All" which takes you to a page very similar to the "Show Duplicates" page. On that page you can see the entire list of hints and click a tab to show all the rejected hints. <br /><br />Most impressive of all, to me, is that it appears to use all the alternate names entered as part of the search criteria. This is a very important feature for my wife's Norwegian ancestors with their fluid surnames. Hints for Ola Nilsson Høyland show up with his name as Ola Nielsson. A big limitation with all the search engines I have seen so far is that they would never match the surname Høyland with the surname Nilsson. This one did and every single hint was correct Gordon Colletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10501621351412089615noreply@blogger.com