FamilySearch Community https://community.familysearch.org/en/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:05:34 +0000 en FamilySearch Community The place is the same - but the algorithm doesn't recognize it. https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/152878/the-place-is-the-same-but-the-algorithm-doesnt-recognize-it Sat, 28 Oct 2023 14:56:24 +0000 Social Groups Áine.ní.Donnghaile 152878@/en/discussions Mary Ellen Kelly 94CL-597 was born in Montréal, Québec, Canada, moved to New York City as an infant and lived there the rest of her life. Most of her later records show her place of birth as "Canada" with a few later records of her descendants showing that she was born in the USA.

Unfortunately, the profile score doesn't recognize Canada East as the designation at the time she was born and throws MANY warnings:

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Can the algorithm be retrained? Thanks.

]]> Profile Quality Score https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/159719/profile-quality-score Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:49:56 +0000 Social Groups Adrian Clark 159719@/en/discussions When you enter a birth range for a quarter e.g. From October 1891 to December 1891 such as recorded on the UK GRO birth Index, you still get a message saying the birth date is missing a year.

]]> Is there a way to show weights of an error? https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/152071/is-there-a-way-to-show-weights-of-an-error Tue, 10 Oct 2023 05:00:22 +0000 Social Groups AnneLoForteWillson 152071@/en/discussions Charles Taylor KWNR-S97 and Quality Summary

He shows only one error for consistency, but many for Conflicts, yet both only lose one star.

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]]> Dismiss not working https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/160515/dismiss-not-working Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:51:27 +0000 Social Groups Áine.ní.Donnghaile 160515@/en/discussions Just confirming what others have mentioned - the Dismiss button is not yet functional.

I had refrained from dismissing while the algorithm was under constant revision because I wanted to see if those errors that weren't really errors would disappear once the algorithm was revised.

But, today, I attempted to dismiss a few, especially ones that are the result of poor indexing or bad handwriting. Mary Lavelle's name [GN4W-9WS] really does look more like Mary Lorel on her marriage record, but I have several other records supporting Lavelle. But I can't dismiss the error.

]]> Data is Conflict Free https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/160502/data-is-conflict-free Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:22:04 +0000 Social Groups LenorKrahn 160502@/en/discussions Obituary provided a residence who's date is a few days after the death.

Profile Quality Score is "Low" because of this.

When dismissing the two Data is Conflict Free messages due to the residence being in the dated obituary, the Profile Quality Score moves up to High but a refresh of the page resets it to Low and the Data is Conflict Free messages reappear and are not dismiss able.

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]]> Has anyone found this has helped their research? https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/152227/has-anyone-found-this-has-helped-their-research Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:02:12 +0000 Social Groups lyleblunttoronto1 152227@/en/discussions It seems like many in this group have started using this prototype as they go along in their regular day-to-day research.

In what ways has it helped you already?

]]> marriage tagging https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/159079/marriage-tagging Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:17:21 +0000 Social Groups JudyMaddoxMartin 159079@/en/discussions It suggests that we need to tag the marriage information source, and there is no way to do that.

I'm using google crome as a browser.

]]> Date of Birth Conclusion https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/152083/date-of-birth-conclusion Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:05:29 +0000 Social Groups Áine.ní.Donnghaile 152083@/en/discussions My Irish aunts were terrible fibbers about their ages - often shaving off 10 years or more when the census enumerator came around. I was interested to see how the program would handle their records.

Aunt Alice was one of the biggest fibbers. I believe the error message could be better worded. The official birth record (in this case her church baptism that includes her DOB) should be considered a more reliable source. I think the wording of the error should be reversed since the dates/ages on censuses are far less reliable. I foresee accurate dates of birth being changed to match the movable feast of dates in other records based on the error message.

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Thanks.

]]> Data is Conflict free https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/160499/data-is-conflict-free Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:39:42 +0000 Social Groups Denney Diane Marie 1 160499@/en/discussions I am personally aware that Mabel Henne lived to 93 and she had 13 children. Thanks

]]> Spelling variants sometimes match https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/152780/spelling-variants-sometimes-match Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:42:18 +0000 Social Groups Áine.ní.Donnghaile 152780@/en/discussions I had to laugh - and then roll my eyes - when I reviewed the profile score for my 2nd GGM Margaret Ann Reilly Holleran.

Holleran, her married name, is spelled every possible imaginable way EXCEPT Holleran, but the score sees no conflicts. Meanwhile, on one record, Reilly is written Riley, and the score calls that one out. https://www.familysearch.org/service/tree/tree-data/labs/person-scores/L8PR-4K3/summary

Also - if a date is approximate, using the word "about," could the algorithm skip the "missing a month" warning, please?

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