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Under the "about" tab for my g g grandfather Paver I read
"When George Frederick Paver was born on 28 November 1858, in Snaith, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Paver, was 30 and his mother, Jane Elizabeth Senior, was 11855. He married Florence Mary Walker on 11 June 1889, in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Carlton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom for about 38 years. He died on 2 May 1943, at the age of 84, and was buried in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom."
Notice the age of Jane when she married George. Her year of birth is in her record so you must have a bug.
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Here is something that I've tried to get the FS people to do and they have twice claimed that it cannot be done:
Allow me to enter a name, such as "Westerdale" and have the software return to me the closest ancestor with that name. This would be very useful for me and I'm sure many others would like this feature.
To refute their claim that it cannot be done or that it cannot be done without compromising information of others, or some other excuse let's consider the questions
- 'Can you create a 5 (say) generation fanchart going back from an individual (such as me or one of my ancestors)?' I think the answer is YES.
- 'Can you have write a simple script to sort the names of those appearing on the fanchart, in alphabetical order by last name?' I think that should not be difficult, and then I could easily look for "Westerdale". But instead of me looking at that list, couldn't that simple script pull out the first "Westerdale" found and provide me with the info?
- 'If this could be done going back 5 generations, then why not 10 or whatever the user wished, within certain limits to avoid crashing the system (maybe 15 generations)?' If the limit were 5 generations and I did not find my "Westerdale", then I could generate fancharts starting from each of my 5th generation ancestors.
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Make the "give feedback=I have an idea" link easily accessible. One of the 'feedback' buttons leads to a chance to score the usefulness of something, and nothing else. Very frustrating
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The "about" tab's biography is machine-generated based on the background ("standardized") values of dates and places, so the first thing I would suggest is to check Jane Elizabeth Senior's birthdate on her Details page: if you hover your cursor over the date, what does it say in the little tooltip box that pops up?
Ah, found her (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K4Y6-762); I think perhaps the machine is having trouble with "before"? That's definitely a bug in the algorithm. (It applies to Jane Elizabeth's own fluff page, too: it reports her age at death as 11891.)
Same problem applies to "after"; see for example https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/about/LT83-55K.
I think I shall go back to ignoring the fluff page's existence, but perhaps a full separate bug report is in order. Dunno if a mod can separate out just that part of this thread?
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The fan chart can go to 7 generations, and every browser in existence offers a text-search feature with which you can find your "Westerdale" ancestors on it quickly and easily. I think it's far preferable to a spreadsheet-type alphabetical listing, because ctrl-F not only shows me exactly where the match is among my ancestors, it also tells me how many matches there are to my search string.
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The faces thing is just step 1 of the Feedback tab-thingy. If you choose one of them, you'll get the chance to actually type in your feedback.
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