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Michelle Horton
Michelle Horton ✭
July 3, 2022 in Family Tree

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

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 3, 2022 edited July 3, 2022 Answer ✓

    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.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 3, 2022 edited July 3, 2022 Answer ✓

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

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    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.

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  • Michelle Horton
    Michelle Horton ✭
    July 3, 2022

    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

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  • Chas Howell
    Chas Howell ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 3, 2022 edited July 3, 2022

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

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  • Paul W
    Paul W ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 3, 2022 edited July 3, 2022

    @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"

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 3, 2022 edited July 3, 2022

    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.

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  • Michelle Horton
    Michelle Horton ✭
    July 5, 2022

    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

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