{"id":4730,"date":"2019-12-30T11:52:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T10:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2023-04-09T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T18:36:08","slug":"les-erreurs-en-genealogie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/nos-pistes\/pistes-genealogiques-en-belgique\/en-savoir-plus\/les-erreurs-en-genealogie\/","title":{"rendered":"Errors in genealogy (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;\"><b>Introduction<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Most genealogists are aware of the existence of errors in their work and are keen to track them down. For example, on many homepages published on the Internet, the author of a genealogy warns the reader: \"This genealogy undoubtedly contains errors\".\u00a0<b>.<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">What are the most common causes of these diverse inaccuracies? It's difficult to rank them in order of importance, but we'll mention a few below:<\/span> \u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">typing errors and 'mistakes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">difficulty in reading or interpreting certain documents<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">the first name, village or profession becomes the surname<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">confusion between surnames in the record (e.g. the wife mistaken for the deceased)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">a lack of rigour (date of birth \/ date of baptism, etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">an error made in an original document by its drafter or declarant<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">taking information from genealogies or the Internet without verification<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">confusion between individuals with the same name<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">methodological errors (e.g. unproven relationships, hazardous hypotheses, etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Your genealogy software will not be a very effective safeguard against errors. It will no doubt point out the inconsistency of a parentage in which the mother is 10 years old, or an aberrant age. But if you link a child to the wrong father..., the software will itself be a source of errors, often because of its - very practical - advanced features. For example, auto-completion can transform a \"Fran\u00e7ois\" into a \"Fran\u00e7oise\", an individual to whom the software automatically assigns the female sex. An unfortunate merging of two individuals or the failed integration of a gedcom file will pollute your database...<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">If you publish your genealogy, mistakes will spread at the speed of the Internet, with a double \"kiss cool\" effect: it will confirm your mistakes - you will soon come across data that confirms your own, because it has been copied from your tree - and it can sometimes lead to heated exchanges with other genealogists - but the advantage is that you will then be able to correct them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/comment-eviter-les-pieges\/\">How to avoid the pitfalls<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Sources :<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yvongenealogie.fr\/2012\/09\/methodes-ressources\/erreurs-genealogiques-genealogie-part-1\/\">www.yvongenealogie.fr\/2012\/09\/methodes-ressources\/erreurs-genealogiques-genealogie-part-1\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction La plupart des g\u00e9n\u00e9alogistes sont conscients de l&rsquo;existence d&rsquo;erreurs dans leurs travaux et sont soucieux de les traquer. Pour preuve sur les pages d&rsquo;accueil publi\u00e9es sur Internet, nombreuses sont [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-savoir-plus","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}