Ignoring Warnings in the Feasibility List
Filtering the Feasibility List
Date Feasibility Checking Settings
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As explained later in this chapter, Reunion can warn you — while entering data — about dates that don't seem possible. The parameters of these evaluations are configured in the Date Settings > Feasibility Checking window. Learn more.
However, there are times when you want to check the feasibility of date entries for everybody in your family file — all at once — and consider making corrections or doing more research on people whose dates seem questionable. For example, you might want to do this after importing a GEDCOM file — a sanity check on the data you just injected into your family file.
Reunion provides a great tool to help you in this endeavor. It's called the Feasibility list and it shows you a list of people whose records contain potential infeasible dates. It only appears in the List window; it does not appear in a sidebar.
To see the Feasibility list...
Each line of the Feasibility list will contain (left-to-right)...
To more-closely examine or edit a person with a feasibility warning, double-click a name in the Feasibility list and the person's record will appear in the family view.
Ignoring Warnings in the Feasibility List
If you're seeing a feasibility warning for somebody and you want to ignore that warning (and ignore all feasibility checking for that person), click the
check-box button next to their name in the Feasibility list. You can always uncheck the button for that person somewhere down the road.Filtering the Feasibility List
Click the
button at the top of the Feasibility list to see all, marked, or unmarked people.You can also see only people with warnings, people with ignored warnings, or both. Depending on how many feasibility warnings you have, you may want to use these filters simply to make data corrections more manageable.
The Feasibility list is instantly updated when opened. However, there may be times when its window is open and, meanwhile, you're making changes that could affect the contents of the list. When this happens, the button will become enabled. To refresh the Feasibility list, click the button.
If you enter an impossible, questionable, or unlikely date, a Date Feasibility Warning window will appear.
To disable the feasibility-checking feature for the particular person who generated the warning, click the
button.This warning doesn't force you to change anything; thus, when you close this warning window, you may save the entry as is, or make a change.
Once you acknowledge the warning and go about your business, you won't be subsequently reminded about the potentially infeasible date for the person or family in question unless you make a change to one of the date entries involved (birth, death, or marriage).
The warning only appears as you're entering or editing dates in the Edit Person panel or the Edit Family > Children panel and only if there has been a change to the birth, death, or marriage date fields. (I.e., entries in other fields, such as a christen date, burial date, etc., are not checked for feasibility.)
To disable feasibility checking for everybody, use the Date Settings, described in the next section.
Note: If you see a date feasibility warning, it doesn't necessarily mean there is a problem with your entry. Some situations are valid, yet trigger a warning. This is particularly true when dealing with imprecise date entries. For example, if a child's birth date is 28 Oct 1872 and the death date entry is 1872, you'll get a warning — although the information that you have is correct. The imprecise death date triggers the warning in this case.
Similarly, if a father dies on 3 Nov 1917 and you enter the child's birth date of 5 Apr 1918, you'll get a warning that the child was born after the father's death — although the information that you have is correct. In this case, the atypical event sequence triggers the warning.
Another note: Date feasibility calculations are not impacted by child status.
Reunion can help you to avoid mistakes when entering dates. It does this by warning you if you enter a date that is impossible, questionable, or unlikely. For example, if a person's death date is earlier than his birth date.
To turn date feasibility checking on or off for everybody, and to set options for feasibility checking...
Use the various buttons in the Feasibility Checking settings to enable or disable different feasibility evaluations. Those listed above the gray line take place when you edit/enter a birth date, death date, and/or marriage date. All of the evaluations are performed when creating a Feasibility list (described at the top of this chapter).
For Reunion to check if a death event is after the burial event, the minimum requirement is that a death and burial year are present. It will only compare the parts of the dates that are present. For example, if only one of the two dates contains a month, then the months are not compared.
Date feasibility settings apply only to the current family file; not to all your family files.
Note: If the List Feasibility window is already open, click the button (the gear icon) at the bottom of the list to open the Feasibility Checking settings.
The "Living Age" is the age above which somebody is considered "not living."
To change the Living Age, choose
.This setting is used...
Excluding Dates with Modifiers
When performing feasibility evaluations, Reunion can optionally exclude dates that have modifiers. Examples of dates with modifiers include...
Since dates with modifiers are imprecise by definition, it may be preferable to exclude such dates from feasibility checking. To do this, check this button in the
window...More information about calculations with modified dates appears here.
Other Features in the Feasibility Checking Settings Window
The Feasibility Checking section of the Date settings window has a few other shortcuts/options (reminder: you get there by choosing
, or clicking the button at the bottom of the List Feasibility window)...