Using Outwit Hub for your one-name study

Using Outwit Hub for your one-name study

<p style="text-align: justify"><strong><span style="color: #800000">The Guild does not recommend nor endorse any use of Data Scrapers, such as Outwit Hub on websites. Guild members are therefore recommended to exercise caution, due diligence and ensure they are not breaching any Terms and Conditions for use and copyright laws. The Guild accepts no liability for members who do use data scrapers and who breach any terms and conditions of data providers.</span></strong></p> <p>Mention of Data Scrapers is made in the<span style="color: #000000"> <a href="/2018-webinar-series-no-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Webinar presented on 20th February 2018</a> </span>by Paul Featherstone and Paul Howes - there is also a comment on the Q &amp; A that followed the same webinar<span style="color: #000000"> <a href="/gathering-data-questions-pt1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Q &amp; A Part 1</a> &amp; <a href="/guild-webinar-gathering-data-questions-pt2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Q &amp; A Part 2</a></span></p> <p>Most of the Guild conversation about the <a class="url" href="http://www.outwit.com/products/hub/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Outwit Hub screen scraper</a> appear to be on the Guild's <a href="/forums/forum/webforum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WebForum</a>. <br /> <br /> There are scrapers on the Guild WebForum for Ancestry, Findmypast and FamilySearch. Go to the Software Section where there is a folder for Outwit Hub under 'Other Software'. <br /> <br /> Guild member Jo Tillin has written in her blog about how she uses <a class="url" href="http://wibblingjogenealogy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/how-i-use-outwit-hub-for-tillin-one.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Outwit Hub for her Tillin one-name study</a>. <br /> <br /> Tony Timmins' blog post from 2012 <a class="url" href="http://www.ancestralwormhole.com/2011/12/familysearch-for-timmins-in-1881-using.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FamilySearch for Timmins in 1881 using Outwit Hub</a>. He says you get the best results if you select Dynamic on the source page first. Then use the Scraper to define what data to extract. Check out the tutorials about scraping they are really good. <br /> <br /> Presumably the program has changed quite a bit since 2012 although with luck the basic principles will remain the same. Tony also created various tools for extracting data from FamilySearch and the SSDI data.</p> <p>See the responses from Tony in <a href="/forums/search/outwit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this thread in the WebForum</a>. </p> <p>It might be an idea to contact Tony direct, although Tony has created a <a href="https://pin.it/mhzqhfghgk5pyt" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">board on Pinterest</a> about OutWitHub</p> <h3>Useful links</h3> <p><a href="http://www.outwit.com/support/help/tutorials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Outwit Hub tutorials</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>