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I think it can be said that no family tree will ever contain the whole truth, but it should as far as possible contain all discovered facts about the ancestors and ideally the sources of those facts.
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Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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I think it can be said that no
family tree
will ever contain the whole truth, but it should as far as possible contain all discovered facts
about
the ancestors and ideally the
sources
of those facts.
As
appleshaw
and others have pointed out, the facts can vary depending on the source of the
information
, memories fade,
errors
creep in on transcription, different censuses record the same
family member
differently, people may deliberated obscure their past. etc.
Therefore we should be able to record all variations in the data discovered. I suggest the following for
GenoProX
:
Individuals
can have multiple names, not just the '
Alternative Name
' available currently but multiple sets for all name fields (forenames, last names, nicknames etc).
As well as coping with the variations in sources this will also
help
for example in cases where immigrants from
places
like Russia and Poland to the UK changed their names to 'Anglicised' versions, also where people have different names in other
languages
e.g. Hebrew and English.
Similarly dates and
places of birth
and
death
can also be recorded differently depending on the source, and so multiple sets of the data associated with birth and death events should be possible.
Sometimes there appears to be more than one possibility in the records for the a parent of a child. I suggest a child can 'belong' to more than one
family
or alternatively more than one father or mother can be attached to a family unit.
In all the above there should be a way of expressing a 'level of certainty' against each item in the multiple set. In the case of point 3 above this could be indicated visually in the
pedigree
link
by moving from a solid line to a more and more dashed then dotted line as the level of uncertainty rises.
'lego audio video erro ergo disco'
or "
I read, I listen, I watch, I make mistakes, therefore I learn
"
Edited:
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 by
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The Uncertainty Principle
By
genome
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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[quote][b]genome (21-Jul-2015)[/b][hr]I think it can be said that no...
By
Jakk
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
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In the meanwhile you could create and add a few "custom tags" to help...
By
Nand
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
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I really will love to have such status. I'm French, in my region,...
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938098-CPr
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
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What about the following list: [code]certainly, // 99% +2...
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GenoProSupport
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
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Is this not "a bridge too far"? What good would it be to know that a...
By
Nand
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
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I like the concept of: certainly, probably, possibly or unlikely. Of...
By
GenoProSupport
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
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So would you like each object, event, record to have a field name...
By
GenoProSupport
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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Every event, relationship and pedigree link should have a way to...
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genome
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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