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From: "Ron Chenier" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG7 Audit
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 12:21:01 -0400
References: <000001cc10ae$bfefcee0$3fcf6ca0$@rogers.com><2011512105228.466492@Terry>
In-Reply-To: <2011512105228.466492@Terry>


Hi Terry,

I have adjusted the preferences in the Audit Report to reflect the best I
can my data.
Ahemmmm! One of my ancestors had 23 children! From 2 marriages though. :-)


Trying to adjust the burial dates when no date exists would cause me
problems with TMG reports as well as SS3 reports as I use a linking feature
to link the death and burial sentences. With no dates in the burial field
the narrative in TMG reports and SS3 reports are not correct.
A slight dilemma, is it not?

Thanks
Ron Chénier
http://www.homestead.com/chesnay/Index.html


-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:] On Behalf
Of Terry Reigel
Sent: May-12-11 10:52 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG7 Audit

Ron Chenier wrote:
> Thank Terry,
>
> I don't see any major problems with my data or reports, so I'll just
> disregard that type of error in the Audit report.

You're welcome, Ron,

There is no "problem" here - it's just that the report takes things very
literally, and sees Jun 1944 coming before Jun 7 1944.

By the way, there are many legitimate cases where "errors" listed in the
Audit report are not errors at all. For example with this test, you might
well have probate tags that would properly be listed after death, but will
show up as an issue in the Audit report.

Other tests could also report issues that are not really errors, including
for example, death after age 100, having more than 10 children, marriage
before the default ages, and birth after the father's death.

Not everything in the report should be considered an error - these are just
items that are suspicious and should be looked at.

In the case of your burial dates, I don't see that problem because I don't
enter any burial date when I don't actually have one, just a sort date to
place the burial tag after the death tag. I do that because you don't
actually know in many cases which month it was. For deaths near the end of
the month you can never be sure. But there are other cases where burials are
delayed a long time. In very cold climates it was not uncommon to delay
winter burials until spring when the ground was no longer frozen. And I have
a case where a man died in the North during the Civil War, and the family
couldn't get the body back home for some months.

That's not to say your method is wrong; I think that's a matter of how you
choose to enter your data. But in any case, you should disregard issues
raised by the audit report once you see that there is no actual error.

Terry Reigel



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