Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Have you used "Helps" such as Tree Checker on ancestry, Consistency Checker on MyHeritage, or Family Tree Analyzer to check for errors in your family tree?

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 

1)  Have you used "Helps" such as Tree Checker on Ancestry, Consistency Checker on MyHeritage, or the Family Tree Analyzer program to check for errors in your family tree? 

2)  Share about your efforts to use helps to improve your family tree in your own blog post or on your Facebook page.  Be sure to leave a link to your report in a comment on this post.

 [thank you to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting this topic!] 

Here's mine:

 I have used Tree Checker on Ancestry, Tree Consistency Checker on MyHeritage, Problem Search on RootsMagic 10,  and Family Tree Analyzer to find possible problems in my family trees.  I always find something.  I rarely fix everything.  

Tree Checker on Ancestry finds duplicate entries - persons I have in my Ancestry Tree more than once (somehow it seems to happen a lot with RootsMagic TreeShare, perhaps user error).  It tells me that today I have 1,838 duplicate people, but many of them are not profiles with the same name, but have the same surname and a close birth and/or death date.  I have 31,943 profiles with no documentation despite the incessant review of record hints.  Pffft.  I also have 116 "Other possible errors" which usually need to be corrected.  I work on them occasionally.  

Tree Consistency Checker on MyHeritage analyzes your entire tree and puts the problems into topics like "Parent too young while having a child."  It takes awhile for the program to complete the analysis, and then you have a lot of profiles to check and correct.  I correct them in RootsMagic and fix them on MyHeritage if it's an easy fix.

For Problem Search on RootsMagic 10, I can pick and choose which problem(s) to analyze, and the program will find them.  I can also modify the criteria.  I use this the most often to find duplicate entries, persons with wrong birth or death dates, persons who lived too long, mothers who had babies young or after the mother died, etc.   Here is the screen to select or edit problem types:

I download Family Tree Analyzer and upload a new GEDCOM file every once in awhile to find problems with my RootsMagic tree. I find that this program finds different problems than the others find and is very useful.   I usually pick and choose which problems to fix in RootsMagic.  

There are times when the programs find problems that aren't really problems. For instance, when you have only a baptism date and not a birth date, you get problems with the mother's age at child's birth.  Also, you don't know if it's a problem or not if a child is born before the parent's marriage.  

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