Are these read ? ? ?
I have 3 each people that DO NOT belong in my genealogical tree that someone has added.
I cannot remove them and asked FamilySearch to remove them and gave the proper genealogical data and after 30 days I still have the errorionus people. WHY ? ? ?
Do I have to join LDS to get something done with this problem or can someone wake up and fix it ? ? ?
Answers
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The Family Tree on FamilySearch is open-edit: anyone -- such as you -- can fix errors in it.
FamilySearch staff very seldom make edits in the Tree, and their contributions are limited to some very narrow areas: private and read-only records, and abuse (and the bar for abuse is very high).
In an open-edit environment, you generally do not fix errors by deleting profiles, because that has the potential of irretrievably deleting someone else's contributions. If a relationship is incorrect, you delete the relationship.
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Yes this is true, EXCEPT the DELETE PERSON is turned off so nobody can delete the wrong data.
If you cannot delete the wrong data then it's there for everyone and anyone to copy and have the same errors.
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If a relationship is wrong the solution is not to delete the profile, the solution is to detach the profile. Use the little pen-and-paper icon next to the person in the relationships pane.
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Delete Person is only available for profiles that you created and that nobody else has ever contributed to.
If the data is wrong, correct it. Make sure you attach the sources that show the correct data.
If no such person ever existed, then find the person who did exist and merge the erroneous profile into the correct profile. (Unless someone was inventing outright fiction, profiles are almost always based on a misreading or misinterpretation of a reference to a real person.)
If the person is correct, but has the wrong relationships, then change the relationships.
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Thank you very much this was the information I wanted in the first place so I could correct the errors that someone added.
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