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miekehawner1
miekehawner1 ✭✭
May 18, 2023 edited July 11, 2024 in Family Tree

On my homepage, I get lots, and lots of wonderful hints for my ancestors, and related in the tree.

But, they are only hints for my maternal lines. I do find lots of hints for descendants on my paternal side, but I have to look for them. Why?

all the records for my ancestors come from www.openarch.nl

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  • Alan E. Brown
    Alan E. Brown ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 18, 2023 Answer ✓

    Record hints on the home page are for your ancestors, not your husband's ancestors. As you browse the Family Tree, you can see hints for anyone, even people not related to you. But the list of hints on the home page is focused on people who are related to you.

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  • miekehawner1
    miekehawner1 ✭✭
    May 18, 2023

    On my homepage, I get great hints for my ancestors on the maternal side of my family.

    However, I don't ever get any hints for my husband's side of the family.

    My husband's ancestors are from Germany, and France.

    Most of the records for his ancestors come from Saarland, and Alsace-Lorraine.

    I was wondering, why?

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  • W D Samuelsen contact me please
    W D Samuelsen contact me please ✭✭✭
    May 18, 2023

    mhawner1

    PLEASE contact me off this. I have ancestors in Saarland and in Lorraine portion of Alsace-Lorraine. (Lorraine is right south/west of Saarland).

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  • miekehawner1
    miekehawner1 ✭✭
    May 19, 2023

    Thank you Alan E. Brown for your good explanation. Your answer was much appreciated.

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  • miekehawner1
    miekehawner1 ✭✭
    May 19, 2023 edited June 1, 2023

    Hello W. D. Samuelsen,

    My husband's ancestors are from the towns around Saarlouis. Fraulautern, Roden, Saarwellingen, Lisdorf, and Ensdorf. His direct lines in Saarland are Hawner (Haffner), Ney, Speth, Bastong, Engel, and in France Bastogne (Baerendorf) Weiss (Alsting) and Thiel (Pontpierre). Do you see a connection? Looking forward to hearing from you, Best regards, M hawner

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  • W D Samuelsen contact me please
    W D Samuelsen contact me please ✭✭✭
    May 19, 2023
    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/512196#Comment_512196

    no, my folks are spread widely from Waldwisse, France east throughout what is now northern part of Merzig-Wadern district and south side of Trier-Saarburg, particular what was then Kr. Saarburg and centered around Britten.

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  • SerraNola
    SerraNola mod
    June 1, 2023

    Moderator has removed personally-identifying information from this thread.

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