How do you tell the size on an unconnected tree?

Question

There are lots of unconnected trees, and I'm trying to connect a few. How do you tell the size of an unconnected tree? For my next tree to connect, I want to go for a larger tree.

Comments

Add db_errors in your tags, please.

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Okay, done as suggested. What will this do?

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Pardon, I had meant to the tags of this thread. Adding db_errors to your set of tags that you follow will make the db_errors discussions show up in your G2G feed. Adding db_errors to your set of tags that you have defined this G2G thread in will make it more easily seen by people watching the db_errors project.

We have methods for quantifying things like this. I don't think there's exactly the kind of solution you're looking for, but I think it could be made or might already be made, and I think it would be very useful to you and the other members of Wikitree.

We could probably actually define an unconnected tree based off of error codes in connected profiles. We can then graph using a traversal of the family graph. Disconnected graphs will always be closed with respect to the largest main family graph, so we can do comparisons to ask whether one graph is larger than the other, so you can search and sort quickly using a number of algorithms including the bubble sort or the merge sort. Counting the profile nodes of the graph is the basic method for quantifying the size of the isolated graph.

Answer 1

When I'm viewing the list of Unconnected People (Find -> Unconnected People), there is a parenthetical note as to the number of connections to that person. And you can sort the list by the number of connections.

Comments

But those numbers seldom include all of the connected people.

A simple example from my Unconnected list:

1. Vera shows 4 connections.
2. Her father, Herbert, shows 2 connections.
3. Her husband, Percy, shows 3 connections.

I count a total of 5 people in that cluster, which suggests that all of these people should show 4 connections, but they don't.

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I agree, there's a bug in there somewhere.

I'm not sure how the list is generated, but something is amiss.

Still, Alex can find a larger group to work with from this list.

Answer 2

Read the post I put up its toward the bottom

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/356977/march-2017-connectors-challenge

Answer 3

There is a list of the largest unconnected branches on the Connectors Chat page, and lists of the largest unconnected branches from various countries on the Let others know what locations you are working on page.