Person linked to family member that doesn't belong, but will not allow me to delete the relationship

Michelle Horton

So, I noticed that a couple of people have tied a person into my lineage LDL7-W93 and

KX45-LSL- Onesime and Marie Louise, when I go to delete the relationship it tells me there were multiple submitters and I can't change this ( she died in March of 1893 at the age of 16-but the marriage they tied with this couple didn't happen till like Nov 1893- I put the marriage record information in the Life sketch showing that her parents are not the same. )

HOW can I get this couple unlinked?? Please help.

Michelle

Julia Szent-Györgyi

The reason you can't delete the couple relationship is that there isn't one: they're only "held together" by the child attached to both of them. Since a woman who died in March cannot have given birth in August, you need to remove Marie Louise Alice as mother of Marie Anna. If you know the correct mother, you can use "replace"; otherwise, use "remove". They're both accessed by clicking the pencil-and-box button to the right of the child's (Marie Anna's) name and then clicking "Remove or Replace" to the right of Marie Louise's name in the resulting flyout.

dontiknowyou

After deleting the spurious relationship, check for attached sources that also need to be detached. Here is one:

It is important to do this because otherwise there are likely to be spurious Research Hints that future contributors will innocently work, re-creating the incorrect relationship.

Another thing that helps is to improve the other profile, so that the two persons are no longer easily confused.

Michelle Horton

Thank you so much.. That worked out great. Not sure why people are not verifying the records to make sure they have the correct parents.

Michelle

Chas Howell

@Michelle Horton , among other theories, because there are many drivers on the road who haven’t completed a Driver's Ed course 

Paul W

@dontiknowyou

Good points. I very probably do sometimes forget to detach the wrongly attached sources. Seeing two different residence places for the same year can remind you to check this out. Even still, these custom events have to be removed, too.

If there are two individuals of similar identity, I often add a note in Collaboration explaining who they are and probably giving a title to each note (against the two IDs) of something like: "Not to be confused with John Smith with ID xxxx-xxx"

dontiknowyou

I usually write a comparison and copy paste it into a Note on each profile involved. Sometimes there are many more than two profiles easily confused. Often in the process I find reason to suspect there may be duplicate profiles.

Example:

Two women with similar names and dates who lived in Massachusetts: 

Marie L Dumais

Deceased • 94YG-6BZ

born in Canada

husband Onésime Caouette

children born in 1893, 1897

Marie Louise Alice Dumas

5 June 1876 – 26 March 1893 • KX45-LSL

born in Massachusetts

parents Trefflé Dumas and Rosalie Bresse

I give all the notes the same title. Here, Two women easily conflated.

At present these two profiles could be one woman: a single set of parents, a single husband, and the death date is not supported by an attached historical record. The different birthplaces may not hold up to inspection. I also see numerous other historical records waiting to be attached.

Michelle Horton

Thank you all for your help and ideas! I am trying to go through each family to make sure the documents/data are correct. This always seem to be an ongoing part of genealogy. Doing this has caused me to look real close at the children to make sure all are accounted for.

I really appreciate everyone's time in helping me to fix this. I think I have it all corrected.

Thank you so much..

Michelle