Yes but what I am suggesting is that it should eliminate all invalid ones when there is a positive match to a residence or census event on the date of the census in a different country.
It works that way if I have one of those entries for the country in question. That is, once I find someone in the census in Scotland and enter that as a residence they no longer appear when I generate the census list for that same year. So I think it is inconsistent (ie. a bug?) that if I enter someone's residence on 30 Mar 1851 in Scotland they don't appear on the list but if I enter their residence on 30 Mar 1851 in Ireland that they do appear. I have just looked at it more closely and the tool is using their child's location in 1851 (they left one behind with the grandparents) rather than their actual location so I think the bias is probably wrong. Thoughts? Gavin... P.S. As an aside it would probably be helpful to know the algorithm they use to come up with the probability so you can make some educated guess as to what percentage to make the cutoff. -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2012 10:03 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census list finds immigrants Please let me correct my bad description in my previous post. The Legacy tool will identify people who have been included in a specific country's census, and you can select the probability of a location still being valid. This probability is, of course, your choice. Like everything, a probability is only an estimate which will show some negatives as positives and vice versa. So, no I would not necessarily expect Legacy to identify all valid results and eliminate all invalid ones. Probability doesn't work that way. It is not too difficult to look for all possibilities for a specific census and then use it in conjunction with the Detailed Search to eliminate those which you do not wish to see included, via tagging. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
