More observations on Gedminer

 

Gedminer. 17 June 2026.

Earlier in the week I wrote about testing out the new tool Gedminer. When I first ran the tool using the GEDCOM I downloaded from Ancestry, I had 11,462 people in my tree (this includes groups of people from floating trees that I have built off my main tree to identify DNA matches). I followed some of the suggestions to fix errors, and am now down to 10,826 people after pruning some additional branches.

My tree consistency score has improved from 99.4 to 99.58% and the sourcing score has improved from 74.24 to 75.29%. 

I began building out my tree on Ancestry in 2005, and over the years a lot of questionable additions to the tree have stacked up. Gedminer is really useful to identify these errors, people without data, or branches that don't belong.