Reunion will happily offer you to also match the parents, spouse and the children of a person to be matched. While it is reasonably understandable how parents would be matched, as well as the spouse (even if the person has multiple spouse), is there a definitive explanation how children are matched and merged. Is it the closest possible or is there some logic becuase Reunion does not give me any indication how it merges children: particularly if a couple has multiple children with the same name, and if their birth date or year is missing. Attached is but a weak example, but on many occasions I have had to weed out mismerged children because the wrong child was merged. (Since then I have stopped allowing children to merge if there is any possible ambiguity)
My question is: what logic does Reunion use to match & merge two children? Can I absolutely rely that the two Jacobs on the right are correctly merged into the two Jacobs on the left, even if birth dates had been missing? What would happen if the birth years for either would be missing; would they be merged into one? How similar do the names have to be to warrant a merge?
My question is: what logic does Reunion use to match & merge two children? Can I absolutely rely that the two Jacobs on the right are correctly merged into the two Jacobs on the left, even if birth dates had been missing? What would happen if the birth years for either would be missing; would they be merged into one? How similar do the names have to be to warrant a merge?
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