no name on record

john oakley

hi all

4YFG-XWG

this record was but no longer attached to mine

how do we delete it as it shows no infomation at all

john

thankyou for your help

Paul W

IDs cannot be deleted unless you created them and nobody else has had any input.

In this case, it would have probably been better to leave the unknown spouse ("?") attached until her identity was established. This record was created at a time when FamilySearch felt it necessary to have some sort of record for the mother of a child (Hannah Naylor MTQ2-FKL in this case). The general advice now is to leave the name blank in Family Tree, as apparently it does not have to be recorded here for ordinance purposes. (Not being a Church member, this does not affect me.)

Short of reattaching the ID, so "?" remains the spouse of William Naylor (until you or another use can find a name for her), there is nothing you can do but let this ID remain unattached within the tree. If you (or another user) do(es) decide to reattach, the ID can be merged with the one created when her identity is finally discovered.

Paul W

@john oakley

Looking at https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.givenName=William&q.givenName.exact=on&q.marriageLikeDate.from=1710&q.marriageLikeDate.to=1724&q.marriageLikePlace=yorkshire%2A&q.marriageLikePlace.exact=on&q.surname=Naylor&q.surname.exact=on&treeref=MTQ2-F2M you will see results include:

21 Nov 1713 Bradford St James William Naylor married Hanah

I also found this entry in Find My Past. The image shows why there is no surname indexed: it is illegible. I can find no record of any child's baptism for the 1713-23 period, which might have shown baptisms of other children during this period. So, I don't know where the 1723 baptism of daughter Hannah is to be found (in Ancestry, perhaps?) or cannot provide evidence that "?" represents "Hanah" (surname unreadable).

If you can show the 1713 & 1723 events refer to the same William Naylor, you might wish to either create an ID for Hanah (sic), or just reattach "?" and amend the first name field to this name. But I would stress there is currently no strong evidence to connect one with the other, especially as there is no source provided for the 1723 baptism.

Paul W

Looking again at these records, I think you need to compare ID L2SF-12S with MTQ2-F2M, then possibly merge these records. You have worked on both records previously, so I am surprised you have not considered merging 4YFG-XWG with Hannah Hazeley KZ3L-WKN.

john oakley

hi

when this was originally added by whoever it was i noticed bad links between all five members of this family via the mother ?

the usual stuff 3 wifes two dads 1 child with 2 mothers ect the usually simlar incorrectly linked

so i wrote down everyones pid and separated the mother from family adding them back together without the mother ? but with correct mother this left her unlinked therefor a single unlinked to anyone record

ive now added these two pid together

thanks for your help

john