Can I "unconnect" a person I connected when using "suggested" match which turned to be incorrect?
I was adding a spouse (husband) when a suggested match that came up that appeared to be perfect match.Only when I attempted to match the wife of the suggested match, they had totally different birth dates, birth locations, death dates and death locations. It turns out the same was true for the husband I attached.
I thought of reverse the attachment, but I couldn't see where to do it. I thought of deleting the husband and adding a new individual to Family Search but Family Search could not complete the desired action. Apparently, information found prior to Family Search was used as no sources supported the dates used on these individuals but the suggested couple used the same sources I had been using to back up relationships to each other, children, etc.
How can I correct this?
The FSN for the husband/wife are: 9SFG-WVS, Francis B Cozad, and M7ND-VKY, Emily Adelaide Thomas. I am a cousin to Emily but not close enough to be aware of any of the research for which there are not sources.
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Although you normally cannot delete people, you can delete relationships. Instructions can be found in the following Knowledge Articles
Hope this helps. Feel free to post again if you get stuck.
Regards
Graham Buckell
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Thank you for your response.
I as able to 'fix' the situation. Originally, I think I was on the husband's page when I tried deleting the relationship (I hadn't worded that very well in my question) but his relationship was "deleted" from the spouse I was working on as well but on the other spouse, who didn't match the spouse I was working on. I had reversed this because I didn't want to ruin what had been done on the 'other' spouse.
After asking the question which you answered, I thought of deleting the husband from the spouse I had been working on while I was on the spouse's, who I was working on, page. This worked perfectly. I have taken a break from working on Family Search for a few days but I need to return and separate the children from the souse I am working on. I feel bad because I feel the children will appear to be duplicates but they do have "different" parents, with dates that do not match, by the same name. Would it be 'kosher' to leave them with 2 mothers who look pretty much identical but are not?
I wish there were sources for the dates for the 'other' spouse who has different dates. Are they really 2 different people and, with the advent of Family Search, later used the sources I have been using? Are they really duplicates only one has incorrect dates? Am I the one in error using sources that really belong to another individual? I know we may not have these answers now but will continue doing the family history for family members. This will all be straightened out at some future date.
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Looking at the two sets of parents, the details for the fathers look too similar to be other than duplicates. Spelling variations in those days was a common occurrence and not much attention should be paid to it. The two Emilys have different birth and death dates. The two different birth dates suggest to me that one of them is not the Emily that married Francis. The question is then which is the correct one?
I would be inclined to merge the fathers but leave the mothers separate with the children attached to both until you can decide which Emily is the correct mother.
Regards
Graham Buckell
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I wish there were sources for the dates for the 'other' spouse who has different dates. Are they really 2 different people and, with the advent of Family Search, later used the sources I have been using?
Because Family Tree is based on historical records, this question can be resolved by realizing it is moot. If there are no historical records to support a profile, the profile is fantasy or speculation and not only can be but should be merged into another profile.
Looking at 9SFG-WVS Francis Baker Cosad and G6PD-VRF Francis B Casad, I agree that probably they are one man, and their children are duplicated too. So are their parents. However, the misuse of blind links to ancestry.com makes evaluation difficult.
To detangle these 3+ generations, I probably would approach it from the parents of the wife or wives. Work from the outside in.
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