As I have time, I've been working to clean up some family profiles that have been badly merged over the years. An Irish couple in New York has been blended with a same-name family in Massachusetts. The matriarch, Margaret, is KGJP-Z1Y.

I hadn't really worried about their profile scores because I know there is a great deal of work still to be done to disentangle the mess. This morning I had a notification that someone had made an edit so I took a look, hoping the profiles had not been made even worse. And, I happened to notice a "Low" profile score. I was hoping that meant that the algorithm was calling out the impossibility of some of the connections. No, it's mostly just harping (sorry) on ages on the census being just a couple of years off or the surname spelling from the census index being slightly different.

Not a peep about half the children being born in Brooklyn and the other half in Boston - sometimes in the same year.

I don't expect an algorithm to be smarter than a good researcher, but I would hope that it could nudge a sloppy or novice researcher into thinking twice before making a bigger mess.

Thank you.