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    1. [GERMANNA] Adding Other Data to a Person from
    2. George W. Durman
    3. If you want to see other databases that have information on the same person, you can click "Ancestry Hints" over on the right side. That will bring you to the "Ancestry Hints" window. Under the person's name, you will see "We found hints with potential matches from X public Member Trees. Then click on "Hints". In the right of the new window, you'll see the person's data in the Germanna Tree. On the left you will see all of the databases that also have the person in them. Backing up, in the window for the person's data, on the right bottom, you will see "Recent Connect Activity". Then you'll see not only other database containing that person, you'll also Census data that hasn't been added to the person, but can be added by clicking. I just experimented with a James "Jim" BROYLES. Clicked on "History" in "Ancestry Hints" and found Census data for 1900, 1910, and 1920. By clicking the correct places, I added that data to James. Very, very easy; however, it didn't also add the Census data to James' wife, Margaret PRESNELL. But that is easily fixed. In James' data, the Census data was entered as "Residence". In the line "Residence", 1900, I clicked on "1 Source Citation";' then "1900 United States Federal Census"; the next window tells me I have attached the 1900 Census to James "Jim" BROYLES and Margaret May PRESNELL, but when Margaret's page is opened there is no "Residence" entry for her. So, even though that window "says" it was already attached to Margaret, I had to go back to the 1900 "Residence" for James click to the Census data, and click add to another person. Unfortunately, when entering "Residence" (Census) data for a husband, it does NOT automatically add that data to the wife. Something else I found out is that when adding Records to a person, there's a place to add to another Ancestry tree if you have one! Folks, if you keep going off to the side issues, "Hints", "Historical Records", etc., and following up on all the listed sources, you are in for a long, long time of adding! I will have to give Ancestry an "attaboy" for the programming that searches out other sources at Ancestry and shows them. For example, instead of having to go to the Census Records at Ancestry and searching for James BROYLES, b.1835 in Washington Co., TN, Census data is available by clicking in the correct places. I'm not sure if you understand what I just said, so, example. I had already put in the 1900, 1910, and 1920 Census data for James "Jim" BROYLES. in the line for "Residence" 1900 (or any of the "Residence" lines), I clicked "1 Source Citation", then "1900 United States Federal Census". That pulled up the data I had already entered, BUT, over on the right side, there was Census data for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1800! By clicking, I was able to add this Census data to James and Margaret. I can tell you that if you use the "Shared" database features and click on all the available sources, you will be a long, long time adding data. The more you add, the more hints, links, and history appear for person. PLEASE, don't start willy-nilly adding data until you are TOTALLY familiar with adding/editing/deleting data in the Tree. Just go to a person in your line and click around to see what is available as sources. You can see these sources without adding them to a person -- just look and explore the opportunities. I'm going to start working on a page for the Germanna Families website that I manage, a page that will include all the hints/tips/instructions I've posted so far to these Lists. I'm just so sorry that Ancestry didn't see fit to include Help for navigating through all the steps for adding/deleting/editing a person/family. If you click on Help while looking at a person, and type in something like "Adding Sources", you'll get hundreds of "hits", over 95% of them dealing with Family Tree Maker (the genealogy program owned by Ancestry/MyFamily). Don't expect to find out much from Ancestry Help. Sarge My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html

    09/12/2011 06:45:04