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Fact Check Warning / Audit?

Fact Check Warning / Audit?

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 1:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 28 Jun 2015 1:35PM GMT
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

Re: Fact Check Warning / Audit?

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 4:02PM GMT
Classification: Query
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?

Re: Fact Check Warning / Audit?

Posted: 6 Jul 2015 3:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
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").

Re: Fact Check Warning / Audit?

Posted: 7 Jul 2015 4:41AM GMT
Classification: Query
There is an error report in ftm

Re: Fact Check Warning / Audit?

Posted: 8 Jul 2015 1:35AM GMT
Classification: Query
dkmcadow,
You are a genious. I looked in FTM, but not closely enough.

And thanks to all who responded.

-David
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