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Geneafinder's consistency checker detects errors, inconsistencies, and duplicates for a reliable family tree.
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Building your family tree is like assembling a complex puzzle where each piece must find its rightful place. However, with oral traditions, sometimes incomplete archives, and data entry errors, pitfalls abound. This is where Geneafinder's Tree Verifier comes in, an analysis tool that identifies errors, inconsistencies, and anomalies in your tree to ensure the reliability of your discoveries. Verifier d'arbre de Geneafinder, an analysis tool that identifies errors, inconsistencies, and anomalies in your tree to ensure the reliability of your discoveries.
Some errors can compromise the credibility of your tree itself. The verifier detects them automatically, including:
Invalid or incomplete dates
Birth after the person's death
Child born before a parent's birth
Child born after a parent's death
End-of-life event occurring before death
These errors are clearly flagged and allow you to react quickly by consulting the relevant record and correcting the erroneous data.
Other cases are less critical but equally important to monitor. Geneafinder classifies them as warnings, for example:
Death at a very advanced age
Parents too young or too old at a child's birth
Multiple marriages for the same couple
Events dated before birth or after death
Small age differences between non-twin siblings
Married woman's name entered as maiden name
Multiple birth or death dates for a person
Siblings with inconsistent last names
These alerts help you refine your tree and spot potential inconsistencies introduced by tree crossings or data imports.
Finally, the verifier issues remarks on atypical but plausible situations that sometimes require verification:
Large age difference between spouses
Incorrect event year entered (e.g., "89" instead of "1989")
Isolated person with no link in the tree
Siblings with the same first name
Same-sex spouses (to verify according to historical context)
These observations are not necessarily errors, but they can draw your attention to particular cases that need analysis.
Geneafinder's verifier is designed to be intuitive and educational: you get a clear list of detected anomalies, with a filter by type (Error, Warning, Remark) and the ability to sort and correct directly from the interface.
You thus retain control, without having to spend hours manually inspecting each record.
The verifier's goal is not just to point out errors, but to help you resolve them. For each detected issue, you have the ability to visualize the detail directly in the relevant record, correct it immediately or come back to it later, and ignore an alert if you deem it irrelevant.
In a glance, you gain a clear view of the state of your tree.
The Geneafinder verifier, it's much more than a control tool. It's a true companion for any genealogist wishing to ensure the reliability of their tree without spending hours. With one click, you improve your data, identify invisible errors, and enhance the overall quality of your research.
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