Several websites offer researcher “hints,” “leaves,” or suggestions based upon details in their database or search boxes. Sometimes these hints find the people of interest and sometimes they don’t. Determine what individual databases the site has and search those manually for the person you think “really has to be in there.”
Sometimes the global hints work and sometimes they don’t.
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And, sometimes those hints/shaky leaves are docs, stories and pictures other people have uploaded to their trees and may or may not be relevant… I’ve seen everything from a vital record attached to the wrong person to undocumented coats of arms to pictures that are clearly not the person they’re attached to i.e., they are too modern or attributed to person at a time when picture technology was not available. You seriously have to use caution and find the sources for these helpful hints and shaky leaves before you add them to your work.