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Cannot delete person that I know is not in my family

Tammy Jensen
Tammy Jensen ✭
February 15 in Family Tree

My grandmother was Eunice Welliver (G66K-NSD). Someone has entered Emma Kincheloe (LBKF-D97) as Phillip Kincheloe's (9VCH-949) wife, and that is inaccurate.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 15

    You cannot delete a person if you did not add them, but you can detach the person from your family. Or, if appropriate, you can edit the profile to the correct name, dates, places, etc.

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  • Tammy Jensen
    Tammy Jensen ✭
    February 15

    I can't figure out how to do either of those things.

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  • Amy Archibald
    Amy Archibald mod
    February 15

    @Tammy Jensen

    Before you try removing the other relationship, please look at the source that was attached back in 2018 that created this relationship. It was the 1930 US Census. Only last month (Jan 2023) did you add Eunice as a relationship to Phillip within the Family Tree. This other relationship has existed in the Tree since 2018. Perhaps the 1930 US Census lists the name of Emma incorrectly - could this really be Eunice? Did Eunice have the children named Winnie and Tillie? If so, then perhaps what is really happening is that Eunice was enumerated incorrectly in the 1930 census with the name of Emma. If this is the case, then you just need to merge the ID for Emma into the ID for Eunice.

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  • Tammy Jensen
    Tammy Jensen ✭
    February 16

    I believe that is exactly what happened, and I attempted to merge Emma's ID into Eunice's ID. However, it said I didn't have rights to do that and suggested I submit a request through Family Search, but that whole process just led me to inquire here.

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  • Amy Archibald
    Amy Archibald mod
    February 16

    @Tammy Jensen

    Please see this Help Center article for instructions:

    How do I merge duplicates in Family Tree by ID?

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