Fact Check Warning / Audit?
Last week, I found that I'd added a fact from a hint that caused Mourning Richards to be born 20 years after mom and dad had both passed away. It's too easy to add obviously incorrect facts. I'd like to see either: A) A Family Tree Maker Fact Audit that'd list obvious errors (maybe this already exists?), or B) An ancestry.com batch check (similar to hints) that would list potential problems.
I did recently get a warning online when I tried to manually add a fact that looked incorrect (loved that!). These fact checkers would ID items such as children born outside of parents life span, people who lived 150+ years, etc.
Thanks, David
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Re: Fact Check Warning / Audit?
I doubt that that will be added anytime in the foreseeable future as it has been asked for several times over many years.
In the meantime you can get what you want... simply don't let the hints add the fact. Add the fact manually and then add the hint document as the source.
Yes- it *will* slow things down... but does that matter if it also adds to the accuracy of your tree?
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Re: Fact Check Warning / Audit?
In an earlier version of FTM, one of the reports you could run was "Possible Errors" (I think that was the name) that would list things like incongruous ages and dates. I don't know if the current version has it, or has it in the same place ("Reports").
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Re: Fact Check Warning / Audit?
There is an error report in ftm
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Re: Fact Check Warning / Audit?
dkmcadow, You are a genious. I looked in FTM, but not closely enough.
And thanks to all who responded.
-David
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