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<\/a><\/p>\nThere is a Tree checker and Charts and reports.<\/p>\n
Looks like I have 9483 people in my tree. This includes my wife’s Butler family.<\/p>\n Here are some filters and stats:<\/p>\n Despite all these errors my tree gets an 8.9 rating.<\/p>\n If I choose direct family line, all possible errors, I get 178 entries. If I choose duplicates under all possible errors, I get 32 people. That seems like a manageable number:<\/p>\n Let’s look at Thomas Clarke on my list:<\/p>\n If I hover over the ‘i’ in a circle to the right, the note says, “possible duplicates”. There are also some hints, but I am not concerned with that right now. I press the ‘i’ in the circle and it goes to profile view for Thomas Clarke in a new window with this note to the right:<\/p>\n I want to review this to see if I agree:<\/p>\n Scrolling down, I see that this Thomas Clarke has the right wife:<\/p>\n This is his second wife, the one I do not descend from. At this point, I will take it on faith that if I merge these two people it will solve more problems than it will solve. Now I am down to 31 direct ancestor duplicates.<\/p>\n I would like to find direct ancestors on my wife’s side. How do I do this? I do not see an easy way to do this. I suppose that is one of the problems of having my wife’s tree connected to my tree. I can try a workaround, but it is not very good.<\/p>\n My wife’s father’s mother was French Canadian. I can filter for Quebec:<\/p>\n Unfortuantely, this does not give me all the people who lived in Quebec, just the ones that I specifically designated as being from Quebec in my tree:<\/p>\n Also, these are not necessarily my wife’s direct ancestors. I do know that Joseph Pouliot is my wife’s ancestor. Isn’t an ancestor a direct ancestor?<\/p>\n When I choose Joseph Pouliot to evalutate, I get this message:<\/p>\n Joseph married a Josephine. Could that be the issue?<\/p>\n Also this 1700’s Joseph Pouliot has no birth date:<\/p>\n Here is birth date:<\/p>\n Here, fils or son is underlined. After making that change, I still see a duplicate for Joseph, so the confusion must be for his wife. I guess I’ll have to live with some Ancestry possible errors that are not really errors.<\/p>\n Using the same logic, I sorted by lived in Prince Edward Island:<\/p>\n I recognize James Henry Ellis as a ‘direct’ ancestor of my wife:<\/p>\n The sketchy right hand of the comparison has Henry Ellis and one child, but they match, so I will merge the two. When I do that and refresh my list, there are only two who lived in PEI that have possiible errors.<\/p>\n The article I mentioned above shows how to use Map View.<\/p>\n Here are my direct line ancestors:<\/p>\n A lot from the US.<\/p>\n Direct line paternal:<\/p>\n England, Ireland and the US.<\/p>\n Direct line maternal:<\/p>\n Latvia, Germany, England and the US.<\/p>\n In my Summary and Conclusions, I mention that finding duplicates may help in inaccurate ThruLines. I often have trouble on my Hartley Line:<\/p>\n This could be the source of my problems. Further, I am not so sure that Robert was born at Bough Gap. That was a possible guess. When I choose the ‘i’ in a circle, I see this:<\/p>\n This is exactly my problem that I am trying to fix. Robert Hartley was certainly not Robert Wilkinson. Robert Hartley’s wife was Mary Pilling. Robert died and Mary remarried Robert Wilkinson. I will be glad to choose ‘not a duplicate’ and hope that will correct many ThruLine errors. I get balloons for pushing those two links:<\/p>\n View all errors for this tree just brings me back to my unfiltered tree error list.<\/p>\n I am honestly baffled as to why Ancestry computers thought that Mary Pilling’s second husband was the same as the first – especally after the first husband died.<\/p>\n I am familiar with my Frazer ancestry:<\/p>\n The George on the right looked good until I got to wife and children.<\/p>\n After working a bit on the list, this is what it now looks like:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nFinding Direct Ancestors of Other People<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nMy Second Great-grandfather George William<\/h4>\n
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