Hi Team,its hard to find the email to contact you guys.My problem is my Great Grandfathers “Name”. “William Alfred Smith”-now according to your records there are approx 70,452,257 William Alfred Smith’s.
Are you sure about that – 70 million, four hundred & fifty two thousand, two hundred & fifty two people who share the same name?
My question is “How am I supposed to find the right one? By scrolling through 70 Million? How long will that take me ? How many hours in the chair in front of the computer?
Is it not possible for your system to create a short-list of highly possibles or probables without me having to troll thru all the unlikelys & “absolutely not” connections.
Or the wives listed alphabetically by the 1st Letter of their name. eg.All the Mays,Margarets,Mary’s, then Nellies,Nora’s & Norma’s.etc
Or given all the relevant names & relationships just identify the right one & have it pop up at the top of the page.
Or narrowed down to States of Australia-All the William Alfred Smith’s in NSW , Western Australia etc.
The other problem I’ve found is having scrutinised every clue up to page 200 & not being able to save your search so that you don’t have to start back at the beginning every time you want to have another go at searching. Would be great if you could just get back in at page 201 the next time..
Or even dates -narrow it down to all the William Alfred’s born in 1876 in Australia.
Solutions to these issues would be fantastic. Many thanks, Bronwyn,
Elizabeth M Dorland
January 30, 2018
Cool idea, but the staffers should spend time building their family trees as far back as possible before they go. Those ethnicity predictions may come from ancestors who are very far back, beyond where even a deep tree might take you. It’s a way to get you into REAL genealogy. 😉