Blog2016 ≫ Error in google webmaster tools

I did an update on this site at the weekend, around the genealogy stuff. I added some structured data on the family tree pages, sometimes called microdata. It's not noticeable to humans but as no humans actually read the site (only me and loads of scraping robots) I thought I'd improve the bits of the site that are just for robots. What this means is adding attributes to the data to more clearly indicate what that content is. So this is not just some text rambling on about some stuff, this is info about a PERSON, and the PERSON has a NAME, and these are their PARENTS and these are their CHILDREN etc. I'm using schema.org/Person1 for this and have applied it to every page that has a family tree on. So for example the homepage and Dad's page and my page. Apart from Dad and myself we've kept everyone else who is still alive in the family private, so for example the site says he's my dad and I'm his son, but we don't list details for Mum or Kez or Nan or anyone else. For someone whose privacy we don't have to worry about like James Cole Clarke there should be a full set of data. Not sure how or even if someone else can use this data (and I'm not 100% sure it actually works for genealogical data) but there it is. I'll include it here as an illustration

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so now this page has some structured person data on it too... I can tell this by testing this page in Google Webmaster Tools2 structure data section. If I test the page it says something like

Person
  name  James [Cole](/wiki/#cole) [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke)
  birthDate 1866-05-01
  deathDate 1938-08-08
  parent
    http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/18/james-[cole](/wiki/#cole)
    name James [Cole](/wiki/#cole) [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke)
    birthDate 1824-07-01
    deathDate 1865-11-28
  parent
    http://www.clarkeology.com/names/tribe/20/sarah
    name Sarah [Tribe](/wiki/#tribe)
    birthDate 1824-05-23
    deathDate 1887-09-05
  homeLocation
    England
  children
    http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/53/james-[cole](/wiki/#cole)
    name  James [Cole](/wiki/#cole) [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke)
    birthDate 1888-09-13
  children
    http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/54/agnes-sarah
    name  Agnes Sarah [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke)
    birthDate 1891-09-18
    deathDate 1893-11-28
  children
    http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/42/edward-john
    name  Edward John [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke)
    birthDate [1904](/wiki/#1904)
  children
    http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/43/sarah-edith
    name  Sarah Edith [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke)
    birthDate 1908-08-13
    deathDate 1998-10-13
  children
    http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/3/ronald-leslie
    name  Ronald Leslie [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke)
    birthDate 1911-10-23
    deathDate 1982-10-17
  children
    http://www.clarkeology.com/names/clarke/44/harry-cecil

There's a problem (no not the boringness of this all) that the top level report from Google Webmaster Tools does not give the same result as individually testing a page. It says Missing: homeLocation for all of them... WAT? homeLocation is not required, and anyway it is there (I added it to try and make the error go away). Also it's not crawling all of my family tree pages, only those I've submitted explicitly. Here's the report:

Page URL,Last Detected,Index,Name,No. of Errors,Errors
names/clarke/14/james+[cole](/wiki/#cole),9/3/16,#1 of 1,James [Cole](/wiki/#cole) [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke) [1866](/wiki/#1866) - [1938](/wiki/#1938),1,Missing: homeLocation
names/samways/17/fanny+alice+grant,9/3/16,#1 of 1,Fanny Alice Grant [SAMWAYS](/wiki/#samways) [1873](/wiki/#1873) - [1953](/wiki/#1953),1,Missing: homeLocation
names/clarke/1/barry+leslie,9/2/16,#1 of 1,Barry Leslie [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke) [1947](/wiki/#1947) -,1,Missing: homeLocation
[blog](/wiki/#blog)/14/board.html,9/2/16,#1 of 3,Thomas [VOKES](/wiki/#vokes),1,Missing: homeLocation
[blog](/wiki/#blog)/14/board.html,9/2/16,#2 of 3,Thomas [VOKES](/wiki/#vokes),1,Missing: homeLocation
[blog](/wiki/#blog)/14/board.html,9/2/16,#3 of 3,Thomas [VOKES](/wiki/#vokes),1,Missing: homeLocation
,9/2/16,#1 of 1,Barry Leslie [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke) [1947](/wiki/#1947) -,1,Missing: homeLocation
names/mahon/157/clare+[france](/wiki/#france)s,8/25/16,#1 of 1,Clare [France](/wiki/#france)s [MAHON](/wiki/#mahon) [1978](/wiki/#1978) -,0,
names/clarke/437/henry+patrick,8/25/16,#1 of 1,Henry Patrick [Clarke](/wiki/#clarke) [1887](/wiki/#1887) - [1931](/wiki/#1931),0,
names/tribe/20/sarah,8/21/16,#1 of 1,Sarah [Tribe](/wiki/#tribe) [1824](/wiki/#1824) - [1887](/wiki/#1887),0,
names/samways/45/john,8/21/16,#1 of 1,John [SAMWAYS](/wiki/#samways) [1848](/wiki/#1848) - [1925](/wiki/#1925),0,
m/424,8/20/16,#1 of 1,Barry Leslie [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke) [1947](/wiki/#1947) -,0,
names/clarke/79/charles+[valentine](/wiki/#valentine),8/20/16,#1 of 1,[Charles Valentine CLARKE](/wiki/#charles/valentine/clarke) [1883](/wiki/#1883) - [1912](/wiki/#1912),0,
names/grant/46/matilda,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Matilda GRANT [1853](/wiki/#1853) - [1933](/wiki/#1933),0,
names/clarke/18/james+[cole](/wiki/#cole),8/18/16,#1 of 1,James [Cole](/wiki/#cole) [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke) [1824](/wiki/#1824) - [1865](/wiki/#1865),1,Missing: homeLocation
names/rainey/41/john+william,8/18/16,#1 of 1,John William [RAINEY](/wiki/#rainey) [1888](/wiki/#1888) - [1945](/wiki/#1945),1,Missing: homeLocation
names/lyman/40/gertrude,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Gertrude LYMAN [1891](/wiki/#1891) - [1973](/wiki/#1973),1,Missing: homeLocation
names/clarke/3/ronald+leslie,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Ronald Leslie [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke) [1911](/wiki/#1911) - [1982](/wiki/#1982),1,Missing: homeLocation
names/rainey/57/samuel,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Samuel [RAINEY](/wiki/#rainey) [1860](/wiki/#1860) -,1,Missing: homeLocation
names/lyman/689/eliza,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Eliza Lyman [1859](/wiki/#1859) -,1,Missing: homeLocation
names/clarke/7/paul+leslie,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Paul Leslie [CLARKE](/wiki/#clarke) [1972](/wiki/#1972) -,1,Missing: homeLocation
names/windebank/548/simon,8/18/16,#1 of 1,Simon Windebank [1657](/wiki/#1657) -,0,
m/22804,8/16/16,#1 of 1,Thomas [VOKES](/wiki/#vokes),0,
names/windebank/332/eli,8/15/16,#1 of 1,Eli WINDEBANK [1810](/wiki/#1810) -,0,
m/47,8/15/16,#1 of 1,[Charles Valentine CLARKE](/wiki/#charles/valentine/clarke) [1883](/wiki/#1883) - [1912](/wiki/#1912),0,
names/unknown/536/fanny+lillia,8/14/16,#1 of 1,Fanny Lillian [1840](/wiki/#1840) -,0,

These guys have the same issue3, so hopefully it's just some new hiccup and will be resolved soon.

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