Genelines helps by placing
child “birth event” symbols on a parent’s life
bar showing when the child was born to that person. In the following
example, Avernia Hatchard is shown to have had a son (i.e. solid
square symbol to extreme left of Avernia’s life bar) before
she herself was born. It is obvious that the birth date of either
the mother or the son is incorrect. A check of the data shows the
researcher had recorded the child born in 1839 instead of 1893.