Delete not available for non existant individuals
Katherine Baird July 1872 – Deceased • KLGJ-5YF and George Charles JENKS 1850–1929 • LCVQ-PN9 Show three sons Tom, Dick and Harry. The sources for these three sons was a comment made in the obituary of George Jenks - 5th paragraph
" .....After the death of the originator of the Nick Carter series, Jenks continued the work and many an anxious mother finally located her Tom, Dick or Harry buried in either of the works....."
Please delete these three sons as they never existed
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We Deleted
Dick - • GHSS-DG4
Harry - • GHSS-GZC
Tom - • GHSS-L57
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Thank you!
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Thank you for your diligence to make sure records are accurate. You can fix this by using the following directions.
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These people are not with the wrong parents, they are fictional. They need to be deleted from the system, not just from the family.
Delete person is unavailable.
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For future reference, and as you probably already know, people in Family Tree can only be deleted by the person who created them and then only if no one else has ever touched them. If a second user edits the record, then even that original user cannot delete them anymore. Looking at the three cliches that became sons, the same user created all three of them in Dec 2020. You could have messaged him, explained what happened and how the obituary was poorly indexed by a computer, and asked him to delete them. Maybe you did and he never replied. But now that you added a life sketch to all three, you are correct that only Support can delete them.
If Support declines to do so, your only other option is to merge all three boys into one individual and detach them from the parents. So the resulting merged individual never shows up in search results, you could merge that individual with one of George Jenks's real sons with a suitable reason statement that that was the only way to clean up the family.
If you are really ambitious, you could use the Error? link in the obituary and report all this in hopes the index will be corrected so this won't happen again.
Also, be sure to go into the source page of everyone to whom this obituary is attached and click the Dismiss link on the Unfinished Attachments so someone else won't come by, see the names, and once again not checking the actual obituary create these "boys" all over again.
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tl;dr: merge them into oblivion.
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Hello @CarolynHinze1
Since these fictitious individuals cannot be deleted, your question will be forwarded to a specialty team for review and resolution. You may be contacted by that team if they need to gather more information and when they have a resolution.
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@MNuttall , I apologize if it seems an impertinent question, but can you see my comment before yours in this discussion?
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@Debbie Orvin can you see this comment?
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