Too many identical hints / Image still not marked as indexed
Hello, I spend a lot of time attaching the same hints / records over and over again, some time the same day, some time months later when they show again. Eg. LKGJJB6 has numerous records of same marriage event 1772 or many instances of same birth / christening of son Aegidus MK3Y-CDJ on 3 Nov 1774. When I search the catalog, the page shows as not even indexed. Useldange / Luxembourg church records in this case. If a hint / records appear, does it not automatically mean it has been indexed ? Also why are hints produced several times ? Sometimes with the correct name / and then again with mix-indexed variations. How do I close this loop to avoid spending time attaching the same record 3 times ? This is recurring particularly often in the Luxembourg Redange (at large) church records.
Thank you, Nathalie
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Unfortunately, the same real-life event may be documented in several places. There might be parish registers plus official, contemporary copies of them (also filmed). A single parish register might be filmed several times and / or indexed without images. There might be transcriptions of the registers that have also been indexed… And the different indexes might contain different data! Yes, we feel your pain… We have also been there.
Almost never will you be asked to attached the same Historical Record (i.e. with the same URL) multiple times - it will, under all normal circumstances, be different copies, with different URLs. (Though software errors have been known…)
Unfortunately, we simply have to bite the bullet and attach all the versions of the same real-life event. Eventually. And don't reject those hints because that teaches the system that the hint is for someone else, so it'll go and look for a second choice, who looks sort-of like your relative but isn't them. Not a good idea.
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The catalog hasn't been updated in several years now, so what it says about the indexed state of a record set can be out of date.
Yes, if there are record hints, that automatically means that something has been indexed, as the hinting system works exclusively with indexed entries. (This is analogous to using only the card catalog at the library, without ever looking at the actual books, but until computers learn to reliably read handwriting, we're stuck with it.)
As Áine and Adrian said, we should attach every source that applies to a profile, even if it's another pointer to the same record of the same event as has already been attached previously. That's the only way to keep any sort of sanity in the hinting system. Similarly, if you found the record before it was indexed and attached the image as a source, when it turns up indexed, you should attach that, too — even if it's indexed wrong. (Or maybe especially then? It can be entertaining, anyway.)
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The more you work on a family, the more hints will be generated. That's how the hinting system is designed.
Trying to get the hints list to zero is not the goal; documenting our ancestors with the best available information is.
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Yes, I have noticed that the more I use hints the more hints are available. At first I was frustrated, however, now I am finding the "hints" section my most valuable tool. Thank you for putting it right in the center of the home page, and very very close to the top. That is helpful. I like that now you have temple ready hints first with a number and then records hints second. However, when I click on ONE of these it automatically takes me to ALL hints. Will it eventually take me to ONLY the temple hints, or ONLY the records hints? That would be most helpful.
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