{"id":2381,"date":"2010-02-11T15:42:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geni.com\/blog\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2010-02-11T15:42:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:42:47","slug":"enhancing-profile-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/enhancing-profile-data-2381.html","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing profile data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post tall\">\n<p>The accuracy of the data on Geni is obviously<br \/>\nvery important. Sometimes bad data is added to a profile by mistake, for<br \/>\nexample missing a digit when entering a year of birth. Sometimes the<br \/>\nbad data comes from a bad gedcom file. In any case, we&#39;ve taken steps in<br \/>\nthe past to improve our error correction to prevent or eliminate bad<br \/>\ndata.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when you upload a gedcom, we automatically mark as<br \/>\ndeceased anyone over 110 years old. Also, when you add a living person<br \/>\nto the tree, we warn you if you enter a date of birth that makes the<br \/>\nperson more than 125 years old.<\/p>\n<p>However, because we have not always had these controls in place,<br \/>\nthere are a number of profiles in the tree that are incorrectly marked<br \/>\nas living. Starting today, we&#39;re going to automatically mark as deceased<br \/>\nany living profile with a year of birth before 1880. In a few weeks,<br \/>\nwe&#39;re going to expand this to automatically mark as deceased any living<br \/>\nprofile with an immediate family member or descendant born before 1830.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming weeks we are also going to add sources, so you can see<br \/>\nthe documentation that supports the facts on each profile. We&#39;re very<br \/>\nexcited about this feature and hope to have more to announce very soon.<\/p>\n<p>We hope this goes a long way towards improving the quality of the<br \/>\nprofile data and our goal of making Geni the most accurate and<br \/>\ncomprehensive source of genealogy data in the world.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accuracy of the data on Geni is obviously very important. Sometimes bad data is added to a profile by mistake, for example missing a digit when entering a year of birth. Sometimes the bad data comes from a bad gedcom file. In any case, we&#39;ve taken steps in the past to improve our error correction to prevent or eliminate bad data. For example, when you upload a gedcom, we automatically mark as deceased anyone&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/enhancing-profile-data-2381.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geni-user-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}