Person has too many children
I'm often seeing "data conflict" issues when someone has more than 10 children. This feels a bit arbitrary? In my tree and in the nearby families I've researched it was very common for people to have well over 10 children, even up to 14 or 15. And for men who were widowed, it was even common for them to father 20 children.
My research focus has been Colombia and Venezuela. I often see women in marriage records getting married in their late teens and according to this paper, the average age of menopause in Colombia is around 48-49 years old. So this gives around 30 child-bearing years. And at a rate of one every two years it's not actually surprising if a woman ends up bearing 16!
I think it would be good to consider the age at marriage or when the first child was born. Or perhaps consider the country someone was born in. A "data conflict" threshold of 10 is quite unreasonable, at least for the places I've done research in. Anything less than 8-10 is usually indicative of a late marriage or an early death of one of the spouses.
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I have had this pop up as well. The idea that 10 children is reasonable leads me to ask according to whom? I have a number of ancestors with 10 - 18 live births. Large families were just that. I would rather have a warning when 1) it is large number of children and 2) the names are very similar. We know these usually get created after an established profile is created, and then someone comes along and creates a duplicate record based on a recently released source. If Anna is born in 1821, and sister Hannah is born in 1821, that's a flag for further and deeper investigation. Are they twins? Duplicates? Name variations?
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Thank you for the feedback. Setting the algorithms for different geological areas has been ongoing. We have readjusted the family size for South America to 13. While this will not be a complete fix. We are hoping to find the sweet spot. Thanks again for your help and patience while we work on this beta project :)
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