Problem with multiple entries dumped onto at least 2 records
G8CV-VTD Hilda of the Vandals has at least 200 children listed among 50 marriages - the dates range all over the place and some husbands' names are actually place-names. I tried removing a few but I am blocked from doing so.
GD6T-2ZK Ansbert of Mosselle is similar
Perhaps someone with more clout than me could look at these records.
Many thanks
Greg Wynn
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Thank you for posting in the Community about Hilda of the Vandals, G8CV-VTD. We can see what you are concerned about. FamilySearch does not correct the records for our guests. We try to give them information so they can make the corrections themselves.
Deleting people will not work, but deleting relationships may. This is a complex issue. The following article link may be a way to get started. https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-fix-a-merge-that-has-information-from-multiple-people-in-family-tree?articleVariant=public
It might also be helpful to have others work with you to untangle the record. We see several recent contributors listed in the record. You might try asking them to assist you. The article link below will give directions. https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-contact-or-message-a-user-who-contributed-to-family-tree-or-memories
Good luck.
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Please make sure you stick with known history. If you can’t prove spouses are invalid then you have no basis to remove. Since there may be academic disagreement over spouses or where she lived and died, you need to respect that this may be playing into the various children and marriages. It appears you are trying to clean up the record, but it may be that it actually represents various suspected facts about her. I say leave it be unless you are an academic expert on her life.
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@Sanra I think it was @GregoryWynn1 who wishes to untangle the records. I was merely cautioning about stepping over the boundary of "clean up" into making academic judgements about what are or are not acceptable facts about her life.
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Thank you for correcting me Gail.
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It appears someone has been vandalising the Vandals!
This is another of those laughable "branches" that you come across from time to time in Family Tree. Full of children older than their parents and other impossibilities. I would feel tempted to tear it apart - well, at least to detach relationships within it. But it's probably best to walk away from it and hope that nobody takes this work too seriously.
In short, there are more problems to worry about in Family Tree, concerning damaging work on many users' close relatives and ancestors, than to concern ourselves with events so far back that there is probably little evidence to even prove some of these individuals ever lived.
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@Paul W Well, perhaps those Vandals deserve it. (smiling) In any case, for MOST of us tracing ancestry back that far, it is only fun, as you say. Even completely laughable branches serve as a hook to try and make history come alive. I will send out chatty emails on possible ancestors in an overall history context, from time to time, always with the caveat that the lineage is NOT PROVED. I have gone back to this time period several times, but I usually stay in the middle ages. Does my family REALLY have that Saxon invader for a relative? Who knows. Someone probably does! But my email on the fierce Saxon invader turned English town mayor generated a flurry of emails with increasing number of emails added on, talking about all sorts of historical research as well as hysterically funny comments relating to family traits and other topics. (Why did he stop at mayor? Wimp!) It went on for several weeks, as it usually does. I think the biggest win on that particular email was one of my niece's emailing me privately and asking who all the people on the emails were. Guess what! They were 3rd and 4th cousins of hers she didn't know anything about before! I send her a screen shot of the tree and now she knows. BINGO. Success.
So keep those messy Vandals there. Its for a good cause: the future of genealogy.
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It has been sorted now.
It looks like one of the many "unknown" entries - often with many many children, husbands and wives was converted to Hilda of the Vandals - causing all the children of these "unknown" people to have Hilda of the Vandals as their mother along with a wide assortment of husbands.
Many thanks for the replies
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