Does your RM tree person have to have a corresponding person in FSFT for the former to get a WebHint from the FS source records databases? I did not think so... Tom On Feb 6, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Jerry Bryan via <[email protected]> wrote: > The confusing aspect is that WebHints does involve a matching process. But > the matching process used by WebHints is totally separate from the matching > process where you declare a person in your database to be a match to a > person in the FamilySearch community tree. > > Jerry

Is the comment following Tom's message the answer to Tom's question OR did Jerry's statement create Tom's question????? Does your RM database person have to have a corresponding person in FSFT for the former to get a WebHint from the FS source records databases? Pat Mc -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Holden via Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 1:07 PM To: Jerry Bryan; [email protected] Subject: Re: [RMagic] Web hint question Does your RM tree person have to have a corresponding person in FSFT for the former to get a WebHint from the FS source records databases? I did not think so... Tom On Feb 6, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Jerry Bryan via <[email protected]> wrote: > The confusing aspect is that WebHints does involve a matching process. > But the matching process used by WebHints is totally separate from the > matching process where you declare a person in your database to be a > match to a person in the FamilySearch community tree. > > Jerry =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think it does require a corresponding person in FSFT. RM's WebHints for FSFT are really already there on FSFT as Record Hints. They are not created when RM connects to FSFT in your behalf. The Record Hints appear to be created by some overnight or weekly or monthly batch process that runs on FSFT behind the scenes. You can see the Record Hints on FSFT without using RM at all and without using any genealogy software at all. You just go to the FTFT Web site and go to a person, and if there are any Record Hints for the person then the Record Hints are displayed. The linkage on FSFT is "existing person in FSFT community tree" <--> "Record Hint in FSFT". That's the only linkage there is for the Record Hint, so there has to be a corresponding person in FSFT. The linkage that RM creates appears to be "existing person in RM" <—> “existing person in FSFT community tree” so the link “existing person in RM" <—> "Record Hint in FSFT" that you really want to see has to be mediated by "existing person in FSFT community tree". I said that RM creates the link "existing person in RM" <—> “existing person in FSFT community tree”, and that’s sort of true. But I think the only thing that RM does is provide the person’s data in RM to FSFT and that FSFT does the matching to the FSFT community tree and then returns any associated Record Hints to RM. I’m saying all this in a fairly confident manner, but I have to admit that there is a little theorizing involved. But it’s hard to see any other way it could work given that the Record Hints are already there and that they are already linked to the FSFT community tree. Indeed, a Record Hint wouldn’t exit if there weren’t a person in the FSFT community tree to which it could be linked. Jerry -----Original Message----- From: Tom Holden Sent: Fri, February 06, 2015 1:07 PM To: Jerry Bryan ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [RMagic] Web hint question Does your RM tree person have to have a corresponding person in FSFT for the former to get a WebHint from the FS source records databases? I did not think so... Tom On Feb 6, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Jerry Bryan via <[email protected]> wrote: > The confusing aspect is that WebHints does involve a matching process. But > the matching process used by WebHints is totally separate from the matching > process where you declare a person in your database to be a match to a > person in the FamilySearch community tree. > > Jerry