* Matches from Find My Past and My Heritage query

[jojangles]

Hi,

On Family Historian there are matches to FMP and/or My Heritage shown against some people. If you click on them and accept them, how do they show up on the records of the person concerned (on Family Historian)?

I would be very grateful for help in how this works.
Thank you

[tatewise]

Welcome to the FHUG.

The short answer is they don't automatically show up anywhere.

To find out more about that Focus Window feature, press the F1 key, or use Help > Family Historian Help > Workspace 1: The Focus Window. Then in The Focus Window help page follow the link at the bottom where it says:
"To learn more about Internet Data Matching, see the Internet Data Matches tab."

Effectively those 'hints' are just a shortcut instead of manually searching the FindMyPast/MyHeritage records.
Once the desired records have been located, then adding them to FH is a manual process.

As a newcomer I advise you study how_to:key_features_for_newcomers|> Key Features for Newcomers and follow its links to other [kb]|[/kb] topics, one of which is Internet Data Matches that provides further advice.

[Jane]

There is also a useful introduction on the main FH web site:
http://www.family-historian.co.uk/aidm

[tatewise]

Yes, that and several other references are mentioned in how_to:internet_data_matches|> Internet Data Matches reached via how_to:key_features_for_newcomers|> Key Features for Newcomers.