Do you think you have an accurate family tree? Well, chances are you have some mistakes hiding
in your family tree, and MyHeritage has a great tool to help you clean up your family tree. So,
join me as I walk you through the tool and some of the things that they start looking
for in a tree that I downloaded and imported from another platform. Let's walk you through
how you're going to get to the Consistency Checker after you have uploaded your tree to MyHeritage.
The first thing you're going to do is you're going to go up to the top, and you're going to click on
my family or family tree (not my family tree- family tree). And then, you're going to scroll
down until you see Consistency Checker. Once the Consistency Checker loads, you'll see
a page that looks very much like this one. And you can see that I already have a few problems.
One of them being "A child was born after a parent died." Now, it is possible for a child to be born
after the death of a father- a few months after the death of a father but not multiple years! It's
also not possible for a child to be born after the death of the mother. Typically what happens,
I have found is, that there's probably a second wife, or there is a same name confusion with the
mother and having her die before she probably did. Someone else died at that time with
her name, and people confused the death date. So, we're going to talk about,
"how can we clean up our family tree utilizing this Consistency Checker?" So, I compared my tree
over on MyHeritage to the one I have over on FamilySearch, and my genealogy software, and
my Ancestry tree. And the answer to this problem where these three Claybaugh children were actually
children of Thomas D Claybaugh's second wife. So, what do I need to do? Well, first, I need
to go to the family tree on MyHeritage and find where this cluster is taking place. So, I'm going
to click up at the top. And I'm actually going to decrease my family tree to the target region.
So, click up there on generations. And then, you get this really cool slider. How many of you
are using that slider to reduce the generations from one or increase it to five? I'll be honest.
When I was preparing for this video, this is the first time I've seen that slider.
Oops! Okay. So, I'm going to reduce it to one. And then, what I'm going to do is I'm going to come
over here to the first child that is problematic for Thomas and Polly. I know that Etta was born,
or Emma Etta was born to the second wife. And then, I'll work through the other children. So,
I'm going to click on that. And then, the left panel will pop up. I put it in the center to
make it a little bit easier to read. But this will pop up on the left side of your window.
And then, what you want to do is you want to click on the button that says "More." after
you click on the button that says "More," you'll get this menu. And I want you to select "Remove
Connection" because we don't want her connected to Thomas and Polly. Then you'll come to this screen,
and if there's multiple connections, you'll be able to choose the one that you want to disconnect
the relationship from. I kind of wish there was an option to remove from an individual or the couple,
for instance, removed from Polly Nash but keep with Thomas D Claybaugh. But there isn't that
option. So, we need to disconnect from Thomas and Polly. And then reconnect her to Thomas
and his second wife. So, click "Ok." And then, you will see that Emma Etta is all by herself.
So now, what we need to do is we need to add her to our parents. But instead of going and adding
from a parent by clicking on that top button instead what we're going to do
is. We're going to go find Thomas and give him a second wife. And then, go from there
to attach Emma Etta to Thomas's second wife. So, go back to Thomas and click on the "Add" button.
After you click on the "Add" button, then you'll get a cool little graphic like this. Actually,
this is kind of neat. I really like this layout. So, who do you want to add a brother, or sister,
a son, a daughter, or another person, right? Now, I want to add the wife. I found that when I added
the daughter, it just became a big ole mess. So, I just want to add the wife. Click on "Add
Another Partner." And now, I have this screen that I can begin filling out the information
about Thomas's second wife. So, she's female. Her name is Mary Ann Feasel or Feasel. You guys
tell me how I'm supposed to say that one in the comments below. I've heard it multiple ways. But
since this is from 1824, I can't really talk to her to find out how she says her surname.
So, after I complete all the information, I go ahead and click on "Ok." And now, I have
Mary, and she's extended on the Thomas line. So, she's this wife that's on that row. And now,
I need to add the child of Thomas and Mary to the tree. So, the next thing I need to do is on Mary.
I tried this multiple different ways, and this is the way that works the best. Click on Mary.
Click on "More," and we're going to "Connect to An Existing Person" because remember Emma's in the
tree. She's just floating around all by herself. Once I click on "Connect to An Existing Person,"
then I have these options. Obviously, we're going to connect her as a child. And when we do that,
this is the existing person option form. We can then get this search box and start typing in
Emma's name. And then, we can select the name that we need. And then, click "Ok." And now,
notice that Emma is connected to Thomas and Mary Ann. Because the only partner that Mary Ann had
for her to be linked to is Thomas. So, I can go ahead and clean up all of the children that are
connected to the wrong family. Disconnect people. If they're not supposed to be in that family
at all. And then, I can go back, and I can move other people. Now, I just move the boy Claybaugh
that died in infancy, and Ida Jane. And move them over to Mary Anne Feasel and Thomas D Claybaugh.
And now, I have their tree all good, a cleaned-up tree. It looks correct. You have Thomas and Polly
and their kids. And then, you have Mary Ann and her children of Thomas. And then, if I wanted
to click on this, I would see the other family from this Mary. So, it's pretty neat. Now, when
you go back to the Consistency Checker, it doesn't automatically update. Instead, what you need to do
is you need to either click on the words that may or may not be on your page. Sometimes it's
there. Sometimes it's not. Click on either that or this refresh- a circle half circle arrow. This is
almost always on the pages that I've seen. So, sometimes it's the words. Other times it's the
icon. Either way, click on that to refresh. And now, you've removed the inconsistencies or the
inaccuracies in your family tree. And now, you can keep working your way through all of the remaining
problems. So now, I can walk you through a few other inconsistencies that MyHeritage checks for.
And you'll really be surprised. I had a lot of inaccuracies in the tree that I hadn't suspected
when I imported this tree from another location. Now, the next inconsistency that I found on my
list was "Alive But Too Old." And you might be thinking, what do you mean they're still
alive? Well, if you haven't marked your person as deceased in the MyHeritage family tree,
then MyHeritage thinks that they are still living. Again when you import someone from another tree,
then this is an error that can crop up often. And you have two options to solve it. One, you need
to go look for a death date or potential death date. Or two, you just need to mark the person
as deceased, and they'll come off this list. So, let me show you how that's done. So, the first
person on my list is Louisa D Townsend. And you will come back to that green box in a little bit.
But click on her name that is underlined, and you'll be brought to the data entry page. Now,
how are you going to know what her death date is? Well, hopefully, you've done some research
either on another platform or on MyHeritage, and you can type that in. I did have the death date
from another location. So, I just clicked her as "Deceased." And then, I added in the death
date and the place. Now, notice I have "Before." I don't have a specific death date of when she died,
but I know that she died before the 1880 census. And that took place in June of that year.
And therefore, I went ahead and said, "Before." So, you can be specific. There's an option to
make this "Exact." There's an option to make it "After." There's lots of different options.
Make sure you have this designation reflect the dates that you know to be true. So, before
June 1880, she died in Ohio. So now, I can click "Save and Continue," and go back to my tree. So,
the next thing you can do is. We're going to go back and talk about those green box options.
So, this is Catherine Brown, and I don't really know when she died. So, instead, what I'm going to
do is just mark her as "Deceased." Because I know she was born around July 1799. So, she's obviously
a little bit deceased. Unless she's a vampire, and I have a new vampire in my family tree.
But I'm just going to go and click on that green box. And it will again take me to this page. And
it I will have to mark it "Deceased." And then, click "Save and close." And then, all of a sudden,
I'm all done. If you have more questions on how to use the Consistency Checker over on MyHeritage,
let me know in the comments below. If you want to learn how to do more things on MyHeritage,
be sure to check the playlist at the top. And if you're ready