Should You Take the Hint? Automatic Record Hinting on the Giant Genealogy Websites

Sunny Morton
Jul 23, 2019
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About this webinar

Become a more savvy user of automated record hinting technologies on Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, Findmypast.com and MyHeritage.com when you learn from an industry insider how these technologies work—and their limitations. See crucial differences between record hints and your own search results. Learn how accurate hints are and how to determine whether a particular hint is a match. Finally, what do you do when you run out of hints for your relative on your favorite genealogy website?

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About the speaker

Sunny Morton is a popular lecturer for the global genealogy community. She's a Contributing Editor at Family Tree Magazine and the author of hundreds of articles and blog posts, as well as the brand n...
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  1. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    6 years ago

    Lots of good information.\n\nLots of great information \n\npresenter obviously is exceptionally knowledgeable; appreciate that viewing this webinar is always available. Saw this at RootsTech but it was a good refresher.\n\nShe's very articulate and grounded in her information. She's a very relatable and informative speaker. \n\nSunni always does an amazing job! Thanks so much for the new book I won! I'm very excited for it!\n\nSunny always does a great job and provides so much information\n\nSunny always has great info! \n\nSunny had great information but she talked really fast and was hard to follow.\n\nSunny is always an excellent presenter. Her info on what is coming to Ancestry was my new "nugget" learned today!\n\nSunny is always very clear and helpful.\n\nSunny makes better genealogy easy!\n\nSunny Morton is a great teacher! Thanks also for the great syllabus.\n\nSunny: great content and presentation! Thank You:)\n\nThank you for answering my question. Great webinar!\n\nThanks for a very interesting and helpful webinar! The presenter shared a wealth of information, ane the examples were excellent. \n\nThis is fabulous! I needed this so much. I Love Sunny!!! \n\nThis was very good and the handout is excellent. Sunny covered a lot of material and I will have to watch it several more times before I am comfortable making changes to my tree from hints. Messing with my tree makes me VERY nervous! Thanks.\n\nVery good information for the beginner to the four subscription websites. I liked how she used samples from each of the programs to show how to use the information in the "hints".\n\nVery good information! Thank you!\n\nVery helpful. Thanks for the handout.\n\nVery informative !!\n\nVery interesting.\n\nWell done!\n\nwell done. lots of good information.\n\nWonderful information, thanks!!

  2. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    6 years ago

    A++++. Sunny is so knowledgeable... even her comments on the side as part of answering another question are helpful. The only thing I can suggest is to talk just a little bit slower. I'll be re-watching this webinar. Thanks for much for this one - excellent~ :-)\n\nAlthough I knew some of the tips she gave, there were some I didn't know that really helped. \n\nAlways learn from Sunny's webinars.\n\nAs always Sunny does a great job making it very understandable for us into beginner to intermediate people\n\nBeen researching for many years but I learned several things today that are great to know. Thank, you.\n\nBeginner level overall, do like this presenter - she is always clear and concise.\n\nexcellent\n\nExcellent \n\nExcellent ideas on how to tame the hints :)\n\nExcellent presentation with very good information.\n\nExcellent topic and presentation\n\nExcellent webinar!\n\nExcellent. I'm in the middle of doing research in New Zealand (looking forward to the upcoming webinar). Later today I want to order her new book. Need to find some info on churches in New York City\n\nExplained clearly - as usual with Sunny\n\nFantastic program and presenter. Will definitely watch her other webinars. After all this time, I still learned something new.\n\nFull of useful content and sound practices\n\nGood information, but basic.\n\ngood presentation but not for advanced levels\n\nGreat as usual\n\nGreat info!\n\nGreat information and tips! \n\ngreat information and will watch again\n\nGreat Information!!\n\nGreat job covering a very important topic! \n\nGreat personality \n\nGreat presentation! Thank you! : )\n\ngreat stuff will have to watch again\n\nGreat webinar! Wasn't sure I would learn much but I did. I really liked the comparisons of the different sites. Mention of good books and guides are very helpful. Thanks :)\n\nHere is a hint. This was a great webinar. Thanks.\n\nHints have always given me a lot of trouble, figuring out the correct way to approach them, so I learned a great deal from Sunny today. Thanks so much.\n\nI did learn one new thing; how to change the focus person in the hints on Family Search. So it was worth my time. However, this was really for beginning beginners.\n\nI didn't want her to stop talking and teaching. What an interesting and information filled webinar. She explained so well. Hope Sunny will be back.\n\nI have never done much with hints -- so many times they are totally incorrect for me and I thought all were a waste of time. This has made me revise my opinion and I shall try to use them. Thank you so much for sharing with us.\n\nI have to say that the only thing that I didn't already know was about writing why you accepted hints and how it might be worth your time to help other people.\n\nI was not aware of this function of the web sites. Thanks\n\nInformative and helped me realize importance of putting tree online in order to get hints \n\nInformative.\n\nIt is always good to be armed with a ton of genealogy tips and tricks.\n\nLearned new ways of using hints. Thank you. \n\nLike someone else said: I thought I knew all about hints. Thank you Sunny for making me rethink my knowledge.\n\nLiked the step by step examples on the different sites. I plan on reviewing them again too by replaying this again. Enjoyed Sunny's presentation.

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