Where do the “hint leaves” on your Ancestry.com tree come from? Generally speaking, most leaves result from:
- links other people have made in their own trees. That is, you link an 1880 census for Hinrich ReallylongnameIcannotspell. Another person who has linked that 1880 census entry to their tree’s entry for their Hinrich links that Hinrich to an 1870 census record for Hinrich ReallylongnameIcanspell. You may get a “hint leaf” suggesting the 1870 census record for Hinrich ReallylongnameIcanspell when you find the 1880 census record for Hinrich ReallylongnameIcannotspell.
- search results based upon broad searches for information in your database.
- larger databases. “Hint leaves” do not include every database on Ancestry.com
My “practice” online tree is online at Ancestry.com.
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The hint leaves for my family tree no longer work. It seems you have changed the way everything is displayed.
I’m not certain what happened, but I don’t work for Ancestry.com 😉
Marsha, is your home Family Tree linked to your online Family tree? Ancestry.com no longer does Family Tree Maker (if that is what you have). I had to go into the new one, MacKiev FTM and it all works perfectly for me now which syncs with the Ancestry.com Family tree on line well. I am using 2014 FTM.