Missing Ordinances
I am trying to clear up the Sealing to Parents on the following person:
Name: Sarah Hewett Adams
DOB: 26 Nov 1808
Family Search ID: MSR2-BQF
Her sealing to her parents was completed 7 Apr 1979, with no parents names attached (See ordinances on her page). There is a Request to seal her to her parents, with their names listed.
I have checked for duplicates, I did merge a duplicate of her father, but it is still showing a request for sealing.
Please advise as to how to correct this.
Answers
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Often, but not always, you can correct this yourself.
Start with the Change Log for Sarah. Going to the very first entries which are dated 2012, you will see the information for her which was imported into Family Tree from previous systems. This shows that her original parents were Charles Adams MSR2-BQB and Sarah MSR2-B7W both of whom have been deleted through merges.
Charles was merged into Charles Adams MS2T-R86 who is still Sarah's father. So that is fine.
Sarah was merged into Sarah MS2T-RD3 who has no husband and no children. That is where the sealing got separated from the Family Tree record. Looking through the Change Log for this lonely Sarah, I can't see any problems. It looks like she was originally connected to all of Charles Adams' and Sarah's children. You will want to look carefully at every entry in the Change Log.
It looks like at one point all of the children were listed with two mothers and instead of merging the mothers, someone just removed one. Unfortunately it was the mother associated with all the the child to parents sealings for this family.
Merging Sarah MS2T-RD3 and Sarah Grey M95D-7RP should take care of the blue boxes on all the children of Charles and Sarah.
This is a good example of why it is very important to always merge correct duplicate relationships and always merge correct duplicate parents and not just remove or delete one of them even in situations where a child is connect to, for example, both father and mother and the duplicate relationship is just to the father or just to the mother.
If merging does not fix this, please report that here. That would mean there are other parents that got separated from the family instead of being merged in and I'd be happy to look further for them.
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Sarah Hewett Adams MSR2-BQF: The temple ordinances now appear correctly in Family Tree.
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