Comments on: Ancestry Comes Up Short on Analytics https://mrlocalhistory.org/ancestry-review/ History and Gossip from New Jersey Thu, 14 Sep 2023 20:27:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Linda Green https://mrlocalhistory.org/ancestry-review/#comment-173017 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 20:27:13 +0000 https://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=38655#comment-173017 I’ve been using Ancestry.com for over twenty years. It’s not as easy as just connecting to family trees. Often the people who made those trees did so just by clicking on other people’s trees and so they often end up posting incorrect information, i.e. people with birthdates that appear to be after they died, people of several generations with the same first and last names added in the wrong order, etc. Besides looking at family trees, you have to carefully scrutinize historical sources. It’s become easier to do this as the years progressed, but even now I run into road blocks. Once you find the (hopefully) correct information, it may lead you to a third or fourth degree relative who may have information to trade, or if they’re old enough, memories of some great grandparent or other farther removed family member. My favorite discovery was of a drawing of my third great-grandmother which was actually attached to the incorrect family with a similarly spelled last name.

]]> By: Jennifer Cherry https://mrlocalhistory.org/ancestry-review/#comment-173016 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:49:32 +0000 https://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=38655#comment-173016 ]]> I’ve been a hard core user since 2005 and my career is in data analytics. I lead developers that build dashboards with key KPIs for the business. You perfectly articulated my biggest frustration point. I can’t tease out any insights. I’d love to see simple things like, # of people per state, country, birthdate, cause of death, those never married. Those even just missing certain vitals.
I have dozens of custom tags I’ve made too I’d love to use for analysis (ie: I track those that fought in wars all the way back to the revolution)
I have over 50k people between my maternal and paternal tree. So much to analyze and there are no tools and likely never will be.

I could ramble on, this is my most favorite topic 😍

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