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Re: Searching Jewish ancestors
Which illustrates my point because my initial guess - that I hadn't cross checked - was that there's an item called Race. (There is, by the way). There are arguments for both Race and Religious Affiliation being used so there are no guarantees which one - if any - any researcher might have used.
Re: Standardized location Issues in nineteenth century Holstein and Schleswig.
@Alan E. Brown comments show why the dual entry system that FamilySearch uses in Family Tree for dates and place names is so important and is such a powerful feature. It also points out the importance of understanding how to correctly use place name standardization. This is what allows you to enter the correct historical name and link it to the best available standard even if that standard is not historically correct. For example, you can still enter "Union, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States" as the place name and link it to the less specific and less accurate standard of "Union, Salt Lake, Utah, United States."
However, in this particular situation I see that FamilySearch's places team does structure the area you are discussing to show the historical periods you would like to see. For example, Gottrupel is entered as:
- Gottrupel, Flensburg, Slesvig, Denmark for Unknown to 1866
- Gottrupel, Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, Germany for 1866 to 1946
- Gottrupel, Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein ,Germany for 1946 to today.
(Wikipedia states: But in the Second Schleswig War (1864), Prussia and Austria won and the territory was absorbed into Prussia in 1867. FamilySearch does not include place names that existed for less than five years and sometimes is forced to use approximate dates.)
While it will take decades to complete the millions of new entries needed to complete the Places Database, if there are a handful or so places in Holstein and Schleswig where your ancestors are from, the places authority team is pretty good about fixing places that users need. Go ahead and request your specific places and they should be able to get those improved even if they don't have enough personnel to complete the entire province.
Re: I searched my relationship to George Washington and it said he was my 7th Cousin, 10x removed . . .
Out of curiosity, I looked in George Washington's Tree View (Portrait) and expanded his ancestors back 8 generations. He has about 111 6th great-grandparents in the tree. That doesn't include possible alternative parents. If you don't know who your nearest common ancestors were at the time you saw this relationship (PIDs or names), it would be a mammoth task to find out what happened.
Re: Nižné Slovinky, Gelnica, Slovakia
"Perhaps you could refer this to the Search Engineers. It seems poor that a Search is found by Google, but not by Searching in the Catalog."
This is a known bug and the programmers are already at work on this.
If you enter film number found in Libcat (it is libcat.familysearch.org ) in the Catalog, it will PULL UP. By the way, using feedback I reported this one.
Re: Caution when Using Beta FamilySearch
What sort of a record did you correct in FS proper? A person's profile or an index record?
It is possible to set up a Beta type scenario with layered data so that the top layer in Beta is initially empty, the "normal" level below, and any updates made in Beta are put into that top layer, leaving the "normal" data untouched. Record access from Beta looks first in the top layer and, if the record isn't there, it looks through to the "normal" layer. This means that any update made in "normal" will be seen in Beta if Beta hasn't already created its own copy.
I'm not saying that explains what you saw, just that it is a possibility - we did it on our mainframe system years ago.
Incidentally, I have used a separate browser for Beta for years but I've forgotten if there was any particular reason for me doing so, other than it being more obvious which window was which. Maybe separation of cookies had something to do with it???
Re: What happens to sources
This post may have been moved from a different category and was never answered as it is the same issue resolved in this thread:
Re: Searching Jewish ancestors
You'd need them all to be marked as Jewish in a consistent manner for starters and I'm not even sure which data item that would be. I for one tend not to use such data items anyway as I treat my relatives as individuals and don't care about high level labels.
Re: Roland Ramey
@ JEROME RAMEY
Not knowing what you have already searched, here are a few suggestions. Check census for Wayne County, Mississippi. If you have siblings of his try searching them. Race will eliminate many false documents with Roland. It appears he died before 1940. Have you looked for history on his mother? I just love chasing down hints and finding what I can. Have you found any trees with Roland in them? The more I know about Roland the better I can help you with sources. Remember no information on living individuals. Have Fun.
Caution when Using Beta FamilySearch
I have seen it mentioned, but in answers and not as a topic.
Use caution when wanting to use Beta FamilySearch. If you use the same browser, cookies seem to be shared somehow and you can make changes in the tree that also show in Beta FamilySearch. The solution we have found is to either use a different browser when using Beta, or open an incognito window.
Freaked me out when I saw a record error in Beta, and then corrected it in the real tree, and when I went to Beta, it was also corrected (or actually gone like it never existed)!!! There was nothing in Latest Changes either. They should not be connected like that!
So, just an FYI and hopefully helpful tip.
