* V6 links to web sites

[Argel]

Will there be links to other genealogical websites (i.e. ones that I actually use)?

There's something rather irritating about the first experience of a new piece of software being the announcement that to get th most out of it you have to pay £60 a year to a website you've never heard of before - especially when you already pay for three and anyway there are are good free sources. In any case, I'm clearly not going to fork out for a website that proudly announces that out of its "5.7 billion records" it has managed to find ONE fact about, say, my grandfather, and wants me to pay to see a birth record which is anyway available from free sources.

Not impressed.
Argel

[ColeValleyGirl]

Under the menu option Internet > Search the Internet you'll find a fair number of sites you can search in your browser as you always have, but there are very very few sites that publish an API (interface) that allow programs such as FH to hook into them at a deeper level MyHeritage is one of only two I know about (the other is FamilySearch, which I think would require FH to change its data format).

You can turn the MyHeritage smart matching off if you prefer (Tools > Preferences > Internet Smart Matches). You certainly don't need to use it to get the best out of the product.

[tatewise]

Argel, a little housekeeping:
To save you telling us each time, could you please set your FH Version so it appears in the right-hand panel.
At the very top of this FHUG page click User Control Panel, then on the Profile tab select Family Historian Version at the bottom and click Submit.

Not all the hints for records in MyHeritage need a subscription, and even the ones that do probably give enough clues to let you find the details on other sites.

[AdrianBruce]

As Helen says, not every provider of data has an API to allow access and without that, nothing happens. Louis Kessler related interesting experiences with providers on his blog about his Behold software. MyHeritage were very interested in working with him. Two other sites on the western side of the Atlantic were either not interested at all in him or were quite take it or leave it.

[jmurphy]

As I said elsewhere -- if I had been able to choose which provider to get hints from, it would have been Find My Past. But really, the hints don't matter so much to me.

More and more, I am not doing global searches for people to find out whatever I can find about someone. Most of the time, I am targeting specific databases and searching for them one at a time. Many times I search a new collection after its release, like the new National School Admissions Registers on Find My Past. The feature I would like, which as far as I know, no one does, would be to have a list of hints for all the people in my tree for a new collection.

I expect that I'll be checking the hints and discovering that I have 99% of what they are hinting at me, which will reassure me that I really don't need to pay for MyHeritage at all.