Deleted relationships
Yesterday I was working with the record for Robert Wakeley Morehouse - 30 November 1886 – 20 October 1966 • G9M2-6T1. He was shown with two sets of parents and I deleted the relationship with the parents that were not listed in one of his marriage records. I received a message from Mildred Morehouse basically stating that I had made a mistake and she was going to put her family line back the way it should be. I have no problem with that.
However, I have found that she has deleted many relationships that are associated with my line that do not appear to be associated with hers. I don't know if this was done out of spite because I deleted one of her relationships or that there is a different reason. These deleted relationships cross many lines.
Rather than try to restore these deleted relationships hit and miss Is there a way for you to restore what she did on 4 Oct 2021? Can you send me a list of what she did yesterday so that I can restore them and not miss anyone? There are temple sealing dates that are no longer shown because the relationship were deleted.
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The article How do I see what changes were made about a person in Family Tree? shows you all the changes made to your ancestor.
The Latest Changes feature allows you to review all of the changes users make to an ancestor’s record in Family Tree. You can then reverse the change if you feel it is incorrect or contact the person who made it. In some circumstances, you have to click Reference to see the restore option.
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Some pointers.
- When conflicts like this occur, usually there is a conflation: two persons of similar name, age, etc. are mashed into one.
- When person IDs are detached, very often some attached sources need to be detached as well.
Both situations are the case here. Look at the 1925 marriage record: Robert Morehouse, son of James and Lucinda, married Elizabeth Davis. Ergo, this Robert Morehouse is not Robert Wakeley Morehouse.
Next steps:
- Give James and Lucinda a new child Robert Morehouse.
- Detach Elizabeth Davis from Robert Wakeley Morehouse.
- Attach Elizabeth Davis to Robert Morehouse.
- Review all other records attached to Robert Morehouse or Robert Wakeley Morehouse.
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Thank you for your quick reply.
I am aware that I can go through person by person to restore deleted relationships. My concern is inadvertently missing someone. Hence my desire to know all of the changes an individual made that day.
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I do not recommend restoring all deleted relationships. The other contributor is correct: the person ID (PID) you thought was describing a member of your family in fact describes another person, except for the one marriage record and spouse that belongs to your family.
@nanaca already addressed how to see all changes made by someone else on a given person ID. There is not any way for you to see every PID another person edited. That inhibits stalking and mobbing and other undesirable behaviors. But you can politely ask the other contributor to review their personal change log and perhaps even share with you all PIDs recently detached from the family.
Don't be revert warring with the other contributor. You both are doing good work. Just sort out the mix up and everyone will be happy.
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@bob baldwin In case it would be of value to you, every now and then a "snapshot" is taken of the tree on Family Search tree , as it looked at that particular time, and posted on beta.familysearch.org. You may go to that web page, log in just as you do in familysearchorg, and see if you can see what your tree looked like before the most recent changes.
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In cases like this, communication is KEY. When we forget our egos and come together in a spirit of co-operation, great things can happen. Let me give you a short experience I had. I and another FS user had differing opinions over two couples with the same husband's name and surname married to a spouse with the same first name (Ann). One couple emigrated to the States and the other stayed in England. We used the FS messaging feature back and forth to try to sort it out. We eventually decided to meet over zoom and had a great discussion sharing all the documents we each had. We both just wanted the information to be correct. We forgot about being the one who was right and we managed to sort out the true picture of what was correct.
Whilst this approach won't work for everyone, and not something everyone would be happy doing... this worked for us. The point I'm making is that collaboration is possible when done in the right spirit.
If the other person is not willing to work with you, you sometimes have to agree to disagree, and FamilySearch can cope with different opinions. Just put a note to say that there is another viewpoint and give the reference numbers and don't do any merging until further 'evidence' comes to light.
Hope this helps.
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