I think the intent is clear. There is a 50% chance that the person will be at the specified location. This then allows you to filter out those individuals who are unlikely (<50%?) to be in the country being searched.
The problem is without knowing what causes the percentages to drop and by how much it is difficult to decide what value to set the cutoff at. Having said that as per my previous posts if you put in a residence in another country the percentage chance falls to around 10%. (That is, the programmers have decided that if someone was in England in 1851 and then you find they are in Australia in 1856 there is only a 10% chance they will have moved back and you will find them in 1861 in England) My main issue (and yes I have submitted a suggestion) is that the weight appears too heavily to the children’s events. For example, if I had someone living for 50 years in one location (say 1851-1901) but I can’t find them in 1911 but I do find their children in another country then Legacy will suggest looking for the parents in that other country with a high probability (eg. 90%). I have been planning to set up a dummy file to play with scenarios such as what if 3 children all moved to different countries what does Legacy suggest then. When I do this I will post the results. Hope this helps, Gavin... From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2012 7:18 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Census List options Bruce, The problem with this lack of information may just be be due to the way my mind works. I think mainly in pictures, so if I read, say, a percentage then I may see a slider set at that %, or a sliced orange, I’m sure that you get the idea, but usually I relate this to the context, and for 50% of a location I cannot do this. Basically I cannot picture the meaning from the information given, so it largely becomes meaningless. The effect is that if I think of adjusting the probability selection I have no confidence in the possible outcome, because I do not know for certain what I am doing. I really do hope that Legacy will amend the Help file to make this option much more understandable. 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
