{"id":3666,"date":"2016-11-29T16:57:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T16:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2016-11-29T16:57:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T16:57:02","slug":"last-complaint-about-the-were-related-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3666","title":{"rendered":"Last Complaint About the We’re Related App"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a huge fan of the “We’re Related” app that\u00a0Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>has developed for various phones.<\/p>\n

This screen shot is another reason why.\u00a0\"screenshot_2016-11-22-16-26-57\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Using my database to generate potential relatives for me from other trees is one thing. After all, that’s what I expect the app to do.<\/p>\n

We’ve already seen how the app will “extend” my ancestry if it finds others who have earlier ancestors of my forebears in their tree than I do<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In reviewing another “match” I discovered that the app modified the information for others in my tree as displayed in the app. My great-grandmother in my tree is “Frances Iona Rampley.” That’s the name on her birth certificate. A distant relative transposed the letters in her middle name and made it “Ioan.” That’s been copied and copied and copied. It’s that way in numerous online trees and I’ve given up on getting it corrected in all of them.<\/p>\n

And that’s how it got displayed in the app for me “Ioan.” \u00a0Most likely because the app displays what appears most often.<\/p>\n

That’s the same reason it lists her grandfather as William Slain Newman. I don’t have him that way in my tree for a variety of reasons, but most others do.<\/p>\n

The app is not, repeat\u00a0not<\/em>, modifying what is on my actual tree on\u00a0Ancestry.com<\/em>. It is modifying what appears in my line of descent before displaying it in the app. I don’t like that.<\/p>\n

Not one bit.<\/p>\n

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I’m not a huge fan of the “We’re Related” app that\u00a0Ancestry.com\u00a0has developed for various phones. This screen shot is another reason why.\u00a0 Using my database to generate potential relatives for me from other trees is one thing. After all, that’s what I expect the app to do. We’ve already seen how the app will “extend” […]<\/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":[283],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestry-com-app"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","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=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}