Re: Validation of genealogy data

Hi Ron,

A big thing is to differentiate between "errors" and "warnings".

Most things should be warnings, only literally impossible things
should be errors. Thus, a parent having a child at age 10 should be a
warning (even younger parents have been recorded after all), but a
parent being younger than their child, that should be an error.

Also, such age checks should only matter for biological children, I've
gotten warnings from software because a step mother was "too old" to
have a child at that age (no matter that she didn't actually have that
child).

Mikkel

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Ron Savage <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> I'd like to follow up Mike Hamilton's comments (on the 27th of July)
> about validation. So...
>
> If you have any suggestions at all about new, used, old, or fantasy
> checks (new) code could perform on data, please have your say.
>
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