{"id":1873,"date":"2016-01-21T17:08:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2016-01-21T17:08:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:08:59","slug":"can-ancestry-com-give-us-a-looked-at-it-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Can Ancestry.com Give Us a &#8220;Looked At It Column?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1874 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/behrends-too-many-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"behrends-too-many\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/behrends-too-many-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/behrends-too-many.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/>This<em><strong> is not<\/strong><\/em> a post about how\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> can facilitate the citation of sources.<\/p>\n<p>This<em><strong> is not<\/strong><\/em> a post about how\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> could improve the &#8220;trees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This <em><strong> is not<\/strong><\/em> a post about how\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> could do things differently with DNA.<\/p>\n<p>This is a post about how <i>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/i>could make it easier for me to use their site.<\/p>\n<p>There are several references to estate records for Ulfert Behrens in Adams County, Illinois, in &#8220;Illinois, Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999.&#8221; Knowing which one I have already looked or downloaded from the &#8220;results page&#8221; is not easy. The problem is compounded if the name is more common than this. It would enhance my use of the site if I had a way I could &#8220;tag&#8221; those records that I had already seen.<\/p>\n<p>A simple &#8220;looked at it&#8221; column would be helpful.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably too difficult to implement.<\/p>\n<p>But it would enhance my user experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a post about how\u00a0Ancestry.com can facilitate the citation of sources. This is not a post about how\u00a0Ancestry.com could improve the &#8220;trees.&#8221; This is not a post about how\u00a0Ancestry.com could do things differently with DNA. This is a post about how Ancestry.com\u00a0could make it easier for me to use their site. There are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}