We want to help you accomplish your goals with meaningful Ancestry Hints®. When you save new information to your tree, your hints are updated in these ways:
- New hints are added. We may find new hints and add them to the hints available to you.
- Irrelevant hints are removed. Some old hints may no longer apply, and they'll be removed.
- Your hints list may be re-sorted. When we update your hints, we want to put the best hints we find at the top of your hints lists. You can find these lists on the Person Page, Hints tab, and the All Hints Page. (Hints are ranked based on how closely the information in a record matches the information in your tree.)
Information that affects hints
Any fact or relationship addition to or deletion from a person in your tree (such as places lived, name changes, events, adding parents, siblings, and so forth) will cause your hints to check for updates. The facts that are most likely to affect hints are facts that pertain to vital information and relationships: name, birthdate and birthplace, death date and death place, gender, and family members.
Significantly changing someone’s vital information or relationships could make a hint drop off your hints list. For example, a hint could drop off when you change a person’s name or relationships. If you change a name from “Mary Smith” to “Margaret French,” or if you change a birth or death date by more than a couple of years, you're likely to change the hints for that person.
For more help with hints, see Ancestry Hints®.
