Do we not have our own tree or are they combined into one now?
I had started a family tree but unfortunately incorrect data has been entered and has thrown everything off. I know that we are supposed to identify why this info is correct but it doesn't seem to be working. My 3rd great grandmother b. 1775 now has her parents identified as being born in the mid 1850's. This is incorrect and the person identified as her father is not directly related but rather her father's brother's descendent.
This makes it impossible to make corrections.
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Hi
This type of issue is unfortunately quite common, which in a way illustrates the key reason why in Family Tree (which is communal/collaborative) it is vital to add sound sources / evidence and to also provide reasons why this data is correct.
The beauty of FamilySearch is its flexibility to correct mistakes so there is help at hand from many willing to help you.
Your request is at the moment somewhat abstract and may benefit from adding some further details e,g. ID numbers so others can 'see' what may be required.
You may also need to track and contact and communicate with the other contributors.
How would you like the Community to assist in directing you to untangle the possible error/s?
There are many in the Community who are willing and able to assist you :-)
P.S. One other thing to remember is that it may just be your twig has joined.linked to a deceased duplicate from other deceased family related lines may have automatically join branches of the extended family.
All living people you enter are in a secure and private area.
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Answering your question title: FamilySearch's Family Tree is and always has been a single, collaborative tree. (Or shrubbery.) The lofty goal is to eventually have one and only one profile for every person who ever lived. Right now (and for the foreseeable future), what's actually there is a whole lot of disconnected bits of brushwood, including many duplicates, incorrect connections, and other errors. Users like you and me can correct those errors, bit by bit. (I tell myself often: Relax! Take your time! None of these people are going anywhere!)
As for your specific problem of your 3ggm having acquired impossible parents, I suggest starting with a good look at her change log (accessed by clicking "show all" in the Latest Changes section at the right of her profile details page). Such errors are often the result of someone making an incorrect merge, or less commonly, of someone applying Source Linker to the wrong profile, and then messing with the relationships to make them match the index. Fixing it, in broad outline, should start with the merges (if any), then the relationships, then the sources, and finally the details pages of the affected profiles. (In other words, it goes from hardest to easiest.)
For fixing incorrect merges, there are basically two scenarios: one is if nobody's done much since the merge, so you can simply revert the change, and the other is if there have been edits since the merge, making reversion unavailable. In the latter case, you'll likely end up restoring a merge-deleted profile, and then cleaning up the relationships.
Relationships (the connections between profiles) are edited using the pencil-stub icons to the right of the names in the Family Members section of a profile's Details page. Some things you can do from either end (i.e., by clicking the icon next to either the parent or the child), but in general, I find it's easier/better to start from the child. It's one of those complicated things that I figure out as I muddle through, and then can't remember what exactly I did.
To fix sources, you can access Source Linker from a citation on the Sources tab by clicking "Review Attachments". (For citations of unindexed sources, click View to see if it's attached to more than one profile or not.)
Compared to all that, getting rid of the detritus of incorrect conclusions on a profile's Details tab is child's play.
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