OK let’s see if I can make myself clear Let's use a very simple military example: I have several source of intelligence that gives me some information. I collect the information about related subjects and build one conclusion. This conclusion is weighted based on the credibility of the sources and of the information. So I have 3 weights/probabilities - confidence in the source, confidence in the information given by the source and confidence in the conclusion I made.
Assuming that the first two are mixed in the present source surety level what I need/want is a surety level for my conclusion (a measure for my “educated” guess!). And the conclusion is basically the definition of a relationship between 2 persons. Of course each user gives a different subjective value to the levels 1 to 5 (and it differs with time) but still and don't need to worry with levels 4 or 5 and levels 3 or less must be researched. And I agree that is always necessary an explanation of the “educated” guess. I don’t know in other countries what sources of information they have but in Portugal, except for the “blue blood” families, the main (and almost only) source are the Church records, so I can’t wait to obtain more information from other sources, to put people in the family tree. L.Salreta -- Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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
