Standardizing in Family Tree helps the search for sources.
So, today I'm working on my Swedish line. Patrons and FS are entering names without the correct letters from the Swedish alphabet. I was having a difficult time finding this person in any source. Then I noticed that the first name and last names didn't have the appropriate Swedish alphabet letters. When I corrected the spelling of the names, the sources came up.
I'm happy.
Smiley faces.
Anitra
https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/137-nordic-countries-genealogy-research
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If you are referring to having hints show up on the records, this is an optical illusion. Ron Tanner mentioned in one of his YouTube Live Q&A sessions several months ago, I have no idea which one at this point, that the hinting engine works in two ways.
1) Hints are applied to records in batches as they are prepared and as computer resources are available. It is not a continual processes. The tree is so huge that continually checking for and applying hints to all persons in the tree would take up too much in the way of processing time for us to be able to work in the tree effeciently.
2) Hints are looked for and applied for any person who is being actively worked on. Any type of edit on a person such as correcting the spelling of a name, adding a source, adding additional information, adding a source, or just about anything else will trigger the hinting routine to look for new hints.
It is not that you changed o to ö that triggered the new hints, it is that you clicked Edit and then Save.
If you are referring to actually searching in the indexes, it really shouldn't make any difference. The search engine is smarter than that and treats o, ø, ö as the same character in the same way that it doesn't care if you end a name as -dtr, -dttr, -dotter, or -datter.
One last point I feel compelled to point out for the sake of encouraging proper terminology, correcting the spelling of a name is not standardizing the name, it is just spelling it as the person probably used it which is the historically accurate way of doing things.
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Thank you Gordon.
2) Hints are looked for and applied for any person who is being actively worked on. Any type of edit on a person such as correcting the spelling of a name, adding a source, adding additional information, adding a source, or just about anything else will trigger the hinting routine to look for new hints.
So, my searches didn't produce anything until I changed the Os. That is because I changed "something". So, if searches are not producing any sources, we can go in and change and un change and the algorithms will then say, Oh, someone wants a source. Okay, here are your sources?
Apparently we do not have easy access the the Swedish HFLs that we indexed. At least the algorithms do not pull them up. Oh, wait. If I go in and change something in the person page and then search the HFLs should come up, right.
(Edit: Oh, funny. I went to the Swedish family I entered yesterday and searched without success the Swedish HFLs, and voila. I searched again today, without changing anything, and what comes up is a long list of sources from the Swedish HFLs. I am just flabbergasted by FS.)
Thank you for your help.
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The databases are huge and thousands of people are working in Family all over the world round the clock. Sometimes it takes the servers a while to get around to us! There is only so much processing power to go around.
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