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GeneWeb - Frequently Asked Questions



My genealogic software tells me that the base holds 3000 individuals, but GeneWeb says: 3050 individuals. Why this difference?

In GeneWeb, parents are always recorded in couple. When there is just the father or just the mother in the GEDCOM file, GeneWeb adds the other parent, giving her or him a question mark as first name and surname. The difference are these missing (but having existed) parents.

At the first use of GeneWeb, I get the message: Cannot access file "start.txt".

Look at the doc: "Two frequently encountered problems". If it does not work better, please tell me.

When displaying relationship links, some are missing.

GeneWeb does not display the links such that the right (resp. left) person is descended from a person of the left (resp. right) branch.

Because those relationship links become often so numerous that the displaying is unreadable. They are real relationship links, however, and are counted in the consanguinity computing.

In CGI mode I just get a message "Internal Server Error"

A frequent problem is about access rights. The Web server often runs CGIs as an user with very few rights (typically user "nobody" under Unix). It may not be able to run "gwd". Check the access rights of "gwd" and all the GeneWeb files!

Why the age of persons of more than 80 years old is not displayed? Why aren't they in the statistics of the oldest persons?

In GeneWeb, the indication of death has three states: "alive", "died" and "don't know". The age is displayed only for "alive" (still living) persons. If the age is not there, the reason is that either the person is dead (without indication of date), or the indication is at "don't know".

If you added this person with GeneWeb and that you did not specify if he/she is alive or dead, or if your data base comes from a GEDCOM file (the indication "still living person" being not planed in standard GEDCOM 5.5), GeneWeb applies the following algorithm:

You have to fix these indications if they are incorrect.



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