Tracing IGI records to FamilySearch - Temple Ordinance dates incorrect
I have traced several IGI records from the genealogies located on FamilySearch, and it appears that some convert ordinance work (baptism and confirmation) in the 1850's, plus some proxy ordinance work (initiatory, endowment and sealing) is now included on the wrong individual. It appears this has happened from changes (deleting, merging and vital date changes) that have occurred on the record since 20212.
How can this be corrected, so that the individual(s) personal record on FamilySearch shows the correct information? It appears prudent to especially show work that individuals have accepted and completed for themselves while living. Is this something I must do through more undoing and re-doing on FamilySearch, or is there a not so messy way to make the changes needed?
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If the date errors are do to editing after 2012, that is after Family Tree was opened and so you have access to all changes, I personally think is it is important to do as much as we can ourselves and take on that messy challenge of sorting out who is who and restoring ordinances to the correct people. I've done a few of these and found four or five different people mixed up on one record, basically by going through the entire change log, restoring everyone to their original 2012 import status or original creation in Family Tree after 2012, analyzing all the data, then correctly remerging as appropriate. I think this is just too much to expect support to do for us.
There are times when after sorting out people and determining who they really are that ordinances need to be shifted and only support can do that. I have found support to be very responsive to doing so when we can clearly explain what happened to a record and why the ordinances showing belong to someone else.
For merges that occurred in New Family Search, that is prior to the spring of 2012, there are things that cannot be untangled but can only be solved by creating new people who were lost in New Family Search and asking their ordinances to be found and moved to their new record.
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I'll have to dig in and see what I can do; with all that's been done, I'm not sure it's something that I can simply resolve. Here are a few pages (items 1, 2 and 3 attached) that describe the problem I'm seeing:
It appears some wires were crossed during the combining of IGI records into a single PID number that confused the issue; between children added, spouses added and sources interjected by FamilySearch at the outset, it was a mess and grew to an even bigger one. See what you think! I appreciate your review, Gordon!
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