Your family tree probably has a lot of mistakes that you weren't aware of. And on MyHeritage,
the Consistency Checker will help you find those problems. But today, we're going to
talk about the type of problems hiding in your family tree. Be sure to check the link in the
description box or the pop-up that will take you to the previous video on how to actually use
the Consistency Checker. I am so surprised to see some of the mistakes from the family tree that I
imported from another platform. Let's take a look. Now, some of them might be accurate,
and you just need to go make a change, or you can mark it as not a problem. So, in this case,
the child is older than the parents. Myra Marr was born in 1864, and her father is John Marr.
So, one of two problems are happening. Either Myra's birth date is incorrect, or
John's birth date is incorrect. Or she's connected as a child of someone who could actually be her
son or a cousin. Or somehow, on that other platform, somebody messed up
and merged two Johns at the same location but different birth dates together. And made
Myra's father, John. Whatever the case is, I really like that MyHeritage's just like this is
a problem. So, we can go in and solve it. Another one was "Parent Too Young When Having a Child."
This is Clement Townsend and the father, John H Townsend. Now, it is possible that there are some
guardianship or there are some adoption but not "legal paper trail adoptions" that take place. And
from what I understand with Clement and John is that Clement was actually like a cousin of John.
And when Clement's parents passed away, he went to live with John. And through records, John was
the surrogate father, the stand-in father. And so, that is sometimes the case when the ages are off.
But if you do see that, okay. We have a young man. Typically men didn't start having children until
they were in their 20s. And women could have them as early as 14. But typically, about 16 is the
age, according to the information I found in the book "Applied Genealogy" by Eugene Aubry Stanton.
And so, that's kind of what MyHeritage is using. That's a guideline that, yeah,
this guy's a little bit too young to be the father of Clement. It is possible. So,
make sure you check it out. If you see a parent of a child and the parent is about four,
then raise your eyebrows and go see what's going on. Now, the next option is "Parent Too Old When
Having a Child." Biologically, typically, women didn't start have children after they're 40 or 50
if they hadn't even started having children in the beginning. And typically, if they're having lots
of children 40s, mid-40s, and definitely 50s, she's too old biologically to have
children. So, MyHeritage does a check for you. They also do a check for gentlemen. Now,
gentlemen can actually have children late in life. So, look at this and decide, is this a problem
or not? And notice there is an option to say "Ignore This Issue" if the dates are fine. So,
if George, at age 75, had another marriage and created the child, Cornelia, and that is true.
Then you go ahead and click on the option that says ignore this problem. "Fact Occurring After
Death"- this one, the date of residence is 1871, and his death date is 1846. Now, sometimes I'll
put in a fact that happens after someone's death. And that could be a probate record. It could be
the sell of their property. And I just put it into the family tree so that I know when his property
got sold. If that's that case, then I can go ahead and ignore that information because there's that
option right there. But this is quite a large gap. do I have the right Jacob with that residence?
We'll have to go and find out. "Fact Cccurring Before Birth"- The date of residence for Frederick
is 1877, but his birth date happened in 1878. We need to go and check that out. Tell me some
of the reasons why you think sometimes there are facts that happen before a child's birth on
their timeline that could actually be accurate and apply to them.
I can't wait to hear what you guys think. I really like this option- "Siblings Are
Close in Age." Eliza R Townley was born November 1824, and Asa, her brother, was born in February
1825. They're 95 days apart- which is about three months. Now, we have a problem.
What is the problem? Chances are the years are off, or the child belongs to a different mother,
or yeah, or a lot. So, I haven't really seen this prompt in other platforms. So, MyHeritage,
good job! This is one of my favorites because Lemuel Sparks and Matilda are born 60 days apart!
Yeah, that's not gonna happen. So, I do like that there's this calculator for how
far apart are siblings when they're born. I really, really like that one. "Large Spouse
Age Difference"- 44 years apart. Not unheard of. Not necessarily the most common activity. So,
you can click on "Ignore." But it is something you want to check out because that could
demonstrate that maybe you've got the wrong spouse connected to each other. This one is unique.
"Multiple Marriages of the Same Couple." Whenever you add new records to MyHeritage and sometimes
it doesn't go to the same fact of marriage. So, sometimes you get duplicate entries as you're
putting sources onto your MyHeritage family tree. And sometimes, when you import a tree
from another platform, what you didn't realize is that there were multiple marriage backs hiding in
that tree. So, what MyHeritage is telling you is either you have duplicate entries for a marriage,
and you need to go clean that up. Or it is possible, it's not unheard of,
it is possible that a couple married and they divorced, and they remarried again. Or you
might have multiple marriages because they had a civil marriage and the church marriage. And then,
other types of marriages after that. So, be sure to check it out. I really like that that's there.
And I did go, and it clean up. There's only one marriage entry of John Sparks and Elizabeth Jane.
And it turned out to be just a duplicate of the marriage event. This one down here at the bottom
"Married Name Entered as Maiden Name." Part of it is in importing, and certain platforms don't
connect with MyHeritage as well as we would like. And it's just a quick fix. And you're good there.
Are times when you have a Smith marry a Smith. I did have that in my family tree. And then,
in other situations, what happen is people put in the married name in the surname field. And it
really should be in the married name field rather than the maiden name field. And on MyHeritage,
you actually have both fields. And so, sometimes, those inconsistencies aren't necessarily wrong.
You just have the fact in a different place because MyHeritage is just a slightly different
platform than other trees. And what they track. Just like there's multiple marriage facts,
which tend to just be duplicates, there are "Multiple Birth Facts." And again, it's part
of migrating and keeping your tree taking place. Sometimes people are debating about two dates.
And so, that is still a research question you have. The multiple death facts.
"Siblings With The Same First Name"- Now, this is a neat check. So, again good job,
MyHeritage! I really like that you're asking us to really evaluate what's in our family tree. Now,
in this case, it is possible for a family to have children with the same name. Often
an older sibling passed away, and this family recycled a name. Or if you're George Foreman,
you name all of your kids George. Whatever the case is, this is a nice check to go and say,
"Hmm, should that be there?" Now, this is what I hadn't thought of. MyHeritage will go and compare
the surname spelling in your family tree to see if you have inconsistencies. Now, with the last name
Claybaugh. It's spelled multiple different ways depending on who you're talking to and who you're
researching. So, there's C-l-a-b-a-u-g-h. There's the "y" inserted after the "A." There's also
variations at the end. The "baugh" is spelled differently. And it's nice to be able to look at
that and say, do I really have the right spelling for each person? Because in the tree, there are
more instances of it being spelled one way versus the other. Same with Billman,
sometimes there's an extra "N." Sometimes they're not. And then, with David Geissler.
He's spelled "ss" where everybody else is spelled "sz." Which one is accurate?
It's really kind of a neat tool that I have only found on MyHeritage, and I really like that it's
there. So, I can go and say it's really confirmed that I have the right spelling
for that individual because relatives will spell their names differently. I had a family that I
was researching, and half the children called themselves Brown with no "e" and the other half
they were Brown with an "e," but they were the same family. But there was a family feud, and
the way to know which side of the future you were on you added an "e" to the end of the word Brown.
Now, this one is really great. This is like cleaning up a place name. I didn't realize
that I had misspelled my grandmother's birthplace. So, she was born in Ann Arbor,
Washtenaw, Michigan. I hope I said that right. And there is a different variation in her father,
Robert Victor Zumstein, where the "t" is an "l." And you know, computer technology, the "l" and the
"t" can look very much the same. Maybe an "l" and an "i." And I like that MyHeritage goes and says,
"I think you have a problem," in a location. And you can go and fix it.
It also pointed out that I didn't spell or someone didn't spell Niagara correctly. So, you can go in
and clean things up. So, that's just a sampling of the inconsistencies that MyHeritage found in the
tree that I was processing. did I miss anything that are showing up on your MyHeritage Checker?
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