Finding my family tree1/25/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() Click the first button under Data Errors Report Options to open the Errors to Include dialog box.Click Create Report, then click Cancel to make some enhancements:.Click Person Reports in the left column and choose Data Errors Report.Click the Publish tab at the top of the program.Now the right Harold's birth certificate is there to document his date and place of birth.Īnd that was only the first item I checked from the error report. I deleted the draft card, building photo, and the facts for the wrong Harold. I even included a photograph of the building and a description of the business. Ironically, I had researched the wrong Harold's place of work. Now I knew that draft card belonged to another man. The certificate shows the date of birth as -that agrees with the NYC birth index, but not the WWI draft card. Yes: John Gibbons and Lillian Lanigan are the parents I expected to find. I checked the parents on the birth certificate to see if they were a match. (Why didn't they spell out his middle name?) The WWI draft registration card I'd saved for him says Harold Patrick Gibbons. When I saw his birth record, his name showed my first problem. This report gives a different account of the errors-or possible errors-in your family tree. So I checked to see when Harold, my cousin Rod's uncle, was really born. The NYC Municipal Archives has digitized their vital records, and they're available online. The birth index said Harold's 1899 Manhattan birth certificate number was 37387. The other came from a World War I draft registration card. One date came from an index of New York City births. ![]() When I took a look at Harold Gibbons in my tree, I saw both and listed as his birth date. He had a duplicate birth fact that Family Tree Analyzer didn't see. The second listing I saw on my FTM error report was for Harold Gibbons. That's a new record! I decided it was time for a thorough error check.įTM has a built-in error report, and I wanted to compare it to that of Family Tree Analyzer. It said I'd added 310 people the day before. I've added so many people to my family tree this year! I synchronized my Family Tree Maker (FTM) file with Ancestry on Sunday morning. ![]()
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