Method
Every claim here carries a confidence. The point of saying so is that a reader can disagree with the reasoning instead of having to take the conclusion on trust.
The five labels
| Documented | A named source with a reference, and where possible the scan. The strongest things in this archive are the FamilySearch citations into the Croatian parish registers — Senj, Krivi Put, Otočac, Karlobag — which give an image group, a page and a date. |
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| Inferred | A reasoned conclusion from documented facts, with the reasoning written out so it can be overturned. That the family is Bunjevac is an inference from place and surname, not a statement in any record. |
| Superseded | Asserted in the family record, and now displaced by a document that says otherwise. |
| Disputed | Asserted in the family record but unsupported, or contradicted, by what can be seen — like the join at generation three. |
| Family lore | Told, remembered, not corroborated. Kept because it is precious; labelled because pretending otherwise is how family myths become family history. Both accounts of Oto's death sit here. |
Living people are not here
They are not hidden, not gated, not present in the output. The rule is applied
once, in classify_living(), at the boundary between the research data
and the published site.
Because thousands of people in a tree this size carry no dates at all, judging each by their own record alone marks every one of them living — safe, but useless. So the build computes an upper bound on each person's birth year from their own events, their children's births, their marriages and their parents' bounds, and publishes somebody only when even the latest year they could have been born is more than a century ago.
- a recorded birth or christening → born in that year, exactly
- any recorded event in year E → born no later than E
- a child born in year C → born no later than C − 14
- a marriage in year M → born no later than M − 14
- a parent whose bound is P → born no later than P + 60
Every step is a real bound, never a guess, and a recorded birth is never overridden by inference. On the current export that judges 2,034 of 15,643 people living. A living spouse, parent or child is not named on anybody else's page either. A removal request is honoured within days, without argument and without requiring a reason.
Two reasons, and only one of them is principle. The scale is different — 2,034 living people against Falco's 104 — and a rule that is comfortable for a hundred relatives is a different proposition for two thousand. And this archive is about one woman who died in 2001: almost nothing it argues depends on anybody alive. Where a living person is the only link in a chain, the page says “living, withheld” and the chain is shown broken rather than quietly completed.
It is a divergence, not an oversight, and it is written here so that a reader moving between the family sites is not left wondering which rule is in force.
An online family tree is a witness, not a source
The spine here is a MyHeritage tree of 15,643 people. Most “sources” attached to people in it are other trees — Geni World Family Tree, Boras Web Site, Grlica Web Site, Janicic, Marko Karic rodoslov. When four trees agree, that is four witnesses who may all have copied one another; it is not four documents.
So the register page marks only whether a person carries any source string at all, and every person page prints the strings verbatim so a reader can see what kind of thing is being relied on. Where a citation points at a parish register image, that is the one worth going to. Sources →
Two things this archive does to the data, and admits to
It folds spellings
Žubrinić, Zubrinic, Zubrinich, Xubrinich and Xubrinić are counted as one name; so are Prpić and Perpić. Without that, the family fragments into eight small families that appear unrelated. The folding is done in one function so it can be inspected and argued with. Why the spellings differ →
It drops the working scaffolding
The tree contains sorting stubs — “Senj – Unknown To be Sorted Papić”, “Brothers [of Stephanus] Žubrinić”, “NN Blažević”. These are research notes, not people, and publishing them as ancestors would be a lie. They are filtered by name pattern at the build boundary.
What is not committed
The raw GEDCOM is not published — it contains every living person in full. It is kept out of any public copy of this repository and regenerated from a fresh MyHeritage export when needed.