July 24, 2020, 10:47 PM
Beth,
Before I retired, I had a career that included working a lot with computers. The result is I exercise every tool and feature the software vendor provides us. I also have a list of features that I will be asking Ancestry to add. I’ve taught myself web design and created a Family website 12 years before investing time into Ancestry.com. I’m still in the process of migrating data from the older site to Ancestry. I also own two other Ancestry programs: Family Tree Maker 2019 and Roots Magic 7. I have just recently been able to synchronize data between the various programs, which gives me some fancy editing tools. I can let the computer find duplicate records, more readily correct style problems like capitalization and spelling. I can also fix place descriptions, so they adhere site-wide to a consistent format: city, county, state, country.
The tools are only as good as the operator using them, and I am still learning. For me, technology is part of the fun. I suspect that not all of Ancestry’s features were available when you started as I use the Ancestry.com site differently. In particular, I use HINTs, Citations, Web Links, and the Gallery more aggressively. This can be good, but not necessarily. I can work faster, but not necessarily with more accuracy. I’m still cleaning up from earlier efforts. Fortunately, as you said, mistakes are easy to fix. But that is true only if you recognize a mistake is made. Your help is invaluable to me. THANK YOU!
Enjoy! John