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Just as an update of status...
Having that case of two people marrying who were distant cousins - AND in different generations based on two sisters from four and five generations earlier - caused errors to be logged in my app. It turns out that has no effect on the generation of family tree diagrams. Parentage was never in question, and I verified that was all I was using to generate my trees.
The thing that had tripped me up was the "generation" checker because that led to an inconsistency error - but once I realized it was legit data, I merely changed that particular class of error from a "serious error" to an "isn't this interesting?" message. My other checks - such as babies born after the parents died and other sanity checks - are still operating normally. I just have to sort through some parentage lists because I've got one guy who married twice and had a total of 24 children from three women. Still can't find out if the four kids from neither listed wife were just "whoops" kids or an unregistered marriage to a 3rd woman. The fun here is sorting out which kid goes with which mother. But that's my issue, not for the forum to decide.
The bigger problem - the "islands" of people whose generation couldn't be identified - turned out to be due to artifacts that occur with Ancestry.COM. When you have conflicting information about a person from two different sources, sometimes that conflicting source data leads to creating two different people in their DB, and it is up to me to re-merge duplicate persons.
Took me about three days to resolve duplicates enough to break apart the "floating islands" of doppelgangers, but I did. I've still got issues to fix but my analyzer now runs to completion and I can produce all of my diagrams - both ancestor and descendant trees - and my "directory" of family members. So much progress. My brother-in-law practically flipped out when he found out about my wife's, and therefore, HIS true heritage - mixed French-Canadian (from Nova Scotia) and Spanish (from the Grand Canary islands.) TRUE Cajun ancestry!
Having that case of two people marrying who were distant cousins - AND in different generations based on two sisters from four and five generations earlier - caused errors to be logged in my app. It turns out that has no effect on the generation of family tree diagrams. Parentage was never in question, and I verified that was all I was using to generate my trees.
The thing that had tripped me up was the "generation" checker because that led to an inconsistency error - but once I realized it was legit data, I merely changed that particular class of error from a "serious error" to an "isn't this interesting?" message. My other checks - such as babies born after the parents died and other sanity checks - are still operating normally. I just have to sort through some parentage lists because I've got one guy who married twice and had a total of 24 children from three women. Still can't find out if the four kids from neither listed wife were just "whoops" kids or an unregistered marriage to a 3rd woman. The fun here is sorting out which kid goes with which mother. But that's my issue, not for the forum to decide.
The bigger problem - the "islands" of people whose generation couldn't be identified - turned out to be due to artifacts that occur with Ancestry.COM. When you have conflicting information about a person from two different sources, sometimes that conflicting source data leads to creating two different people in their DB, and it is up to me to re-merge duplicate persons.
Took me about three days to resolve duplicates enough to break apart the "floating islands" of doppelgangers, but I did. I've still got issues to fix but my analyzer now runs to completion and I can produce all of my diagrams - both ancestor and descendant trees - and my "directory" of family members. So much progress. My brother-in-law practically flipped out when he found out about my wife's, and therefore, HIS true heritage - mixed French-Canadian (from Nova Scotia) and Spanish (from the Grand Canary islands.) TRUE Cajun ancestry!
