How do I remove a hint from the Record Suggestions page?

SimonPackham1

This list of hints has some useful, but some are incorrect. How can I delete the ones that I've reviewed already? https://www.familysearch.org/en/campaign/hints

Jack Hern

I would like to have this option as well.

While I love the concept, and use it to fill out and grow the FamilyTree; there are many that some would consider 'brick walls' that the suggested hint does not have enough relevant information to conclusively link it to the suggested person. The 'Record Hints' on the home page is my go to now for who/where to start nowadays. I like the option to find folks that are out in the family tree that have sources ready to attach and that are connected to me by previous work and this gives me the quick link to find them again. I have 18-20 that I'm not comfortable either linking or specifically marking the suggestion as not a match either.

I am happy to review the suggestion, but an option to "remove suggestion, not enough evidence to link" would be nice. Especially if it were for just the Records Hints page, and still findable from the individual details page of: Research Help.

JulianBrown38

The hints that are offered in the brief list in the Record Hints section of your home page (and in more detail when you click SHOW ALL at the bottom of that section) are derived from the Record Hints that are shown in the Research Help section of a profile (and again in more detail when click SHOW ALL there).

• The ones that are on the person profile are visible to any FamilySearch user who happens to look at the person's profile or a Tree View that includes that person. You can deal with them by by attaching them to the profile if that's appropriate, marking them as "Not a match" if that is appropriate or just ignoring them and leaving them for other users to review in the future. If you mark them as "Not a match", they are moved to the Dismissed Helps tab on the person's profile page; they can be restored from there if necessary.
• The derived ones that are on your home page are personal to you and are offered perhaps because you are related to the person or are following them. I'm not sure of the exact rules. The hinting engine may offer a hint for the same source record to multiple users who meet the criteria. You can deal with these in the same way that I described in the preceding paragraph, but you also have another option to remove them from the list:

1. If you are using the web site, you can expand each profile and then each source record for the profile on the Record Hints page. This will show an IGNORE button which you can use to remove any of the specific hints which you don't wish to see again in this list. If you do this, you will not affect the lists of other users who have been offered the hint or the hints that appear on the person's profile.
2. If you are using the Family Tree app, these personal hints can be found on the Tasks screen of the main menu. You can remove all the personal hints for the profile by swiping the profile left or right. In this case, you don't have the option of removing individual sources; all the offered sources for the profile will be removed.

This is what the web site offers:

Is this the option that you are looking for?

With regard to the page that you listed, https://www.familysearch.org/en/campaign/hints,, I find that the entries that are listed there are frequently out of date. They may relate to sources that I or other users have attached months ago. I don't use that page at all.

W D Samuelsen contact me please

That explanation how to ignore did NOT work in this one

Aaron Bibler (1847-1892) 293T-98S (my 1st cousin five times removed)

"This Record has been removed.

Unfortunately, the record that you requested is no longer available. If you arrived here from a bookmark, please delete your bookmark."

There are no ways to delete, delink, detach, etc this one research hint for Kansas 1885 Census.

RipplePeterJohn1

I keep getting a hint that I should have my uncle Vincent Francis Lafferty sealed to his wife who murdered him. I am not going to do that. Family Search doesn't get it. I am tired of telling them I am not going to do it. They keep sending the suggestion. It is irritating and stupid.

JulianBrown38

@W D Samuelsen contact me please, I suggest you flag your comment and request a moderator to take up the case of the inaccessible record with the FamilySearch engineers. If you SHOW ALL the hints on your cousin's profile page and REVIEW & ATTACH the offending hint, the resulting message from the source linker identifies the source record, i.e. "Error loading source: /ark:/61903/1:1:6BKF-WBKW".

W D Samuelsen contact me please

JulianBrown38

it is gone.