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Omega settings

Search and check

Person search

These settings apply to the search for people.
entry Meaning
Blurriness | Dates
  • Broad search : This search finds all persons for whom, after narrowing down the time period, it cannot be ruled out that the search criteria are met. In particular, it finds all persons for whom the searched date of birth is not specified at all or cannot be limited to a specific time period.
  • Eng : Only people whose life date can be limited either downwards or upwards are found; this setting is less relevant.
  • Strict : only persons whose life date can be limited both upwards and downwards will be found.
  • Exactly : only people whose birth date is specified will be found.
Blurriness | Names
  • Exact : When searching for names, an exact match is required.
  • Exact match preferred : When searching for names, an exact match is required. If no exact match is found, a spelling-tolerant search is performed instead.
  • fuzzy : Enables a spelling-tolerant search.
Blur | TTL See description for fuzzy search
Blurriness | MLD See description for fuzzy search
Signatures | Search mode
  • as entered : the signature must be exactly the entered string of characters.
  • Signature scheme : the signature must conform to the entered signature scheme.
  • Regular expression : the signature must match the entered regular expression.
Text | Capitalization sets whether the search in texts is case-sensitive or not.
Texts | Search mode
  • as entered : the text must contain the entered string exactly.
  • Regular expression : the text must match the entered regular expression.

Plausibility check

These settings apply to the plausibility check .
entry Meaning
Maximum age Maximum age in years that a person can reach.
Minimum age for fathers Minimum age in years that a father must have reached at the birth of a child.
Minimum age of mother Minimum age in years that a mother must have reached to give birth to a child.
Maximum age of mother Maximum age in years that a mother can reach when giving birth to a child.
Civil marriage before church marriage The plausibility check is criticized if the church marriage was performed before the civil marriage.
Minimum age of husband Minimum age in years that a husband must have reached upon marriage.
Minimum age of wife Minimum age in years that a wife must have reached at the time of her marriage.

Duplicate check

This setting applies to duplicate checking .
entry Meaning
threshold Threshold for the determined similarity between two persons, which must be reached in the duplicate check in order for these persons to be recognized as duplicates.