Trying to link me and my tree to a cousin
My Mother had a cousin Emma Weeks (Mason) that I would like to link up to my tree - I was able to do it in ancestry.com, but have a few road blocks on FamilySerch.
Since I'm only MOSTLY sure of the connections, I would like to ask your suggestions on how I can attach Emma Weeks (Mason) up to my current tree.
Here are my suppositions: Emma Smith - GFWV-TQC is Emma Burnham (unknown number)
Ella SMith - LV39-B5G is her Daughter as is Edna Smith - GFWV-2HL
Edna Smith - GFWV-2HL and Edna F. Smith - GCF9-FNW I think are duplicates.
George A. Dutcher is my great grandfather - KBNL-Q89.
I just want to be correct in trying to associate these people up as this section of my tree seems to have broken branches.
I have been trying to figure out how to link these people to my current tree for a few sessions now and I'm not too successful. Please advise.
Thank you,
Dean F. Gibson
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If you are not sure whether the people you are seeing in the general Family Tree database are actually people you are related to, it is best to leave those people alone and only connect people you are absolutely sure about, such as your great-grandfather.
A unique feature of Family Tree is that we are all working in the same database. You do not have a separate tree in Family Tree. When you search for an Emma Smith, you will get every Emma Smith ever entered by anyone into Family Tree. So if you are not sure if the Emma Smith you see is your relative, it is far better to add a new Emma Smith than to take an Emma Smith you are not related to and turn someone else's relative into a completely different person.
After you enter the information you are certain about and have good sources for, you may start seeing duplicates show up that will need to be carefully evaluated.
So you have your have your mother, you have your grandparents, and you are certain of your great-grandfather's identity in Family Tree. Your mother's cousin and your mother would have common grandparents and those would be your great-grandparents. So if you start with your known great-grandparent and do careful descendancy research putting in their children and those children's children, then you should be in good shape in adding branches of your relatives.
(I tried to look at a few of the people you mention and their ID numbers are wrong in your post.)
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I'm afraid you need to look at profiles a lot more carefully. I only got through three of the profiles before I discovered an impossibility in your suppositions.
Emma Smith GFWV-TQC (1843-) and daughters Edna Smith GFWV-2HL (1879-) and May Smith GFWV-NXG (1882-) are a USCensusProject-created trio based on the 1900 census in "Shandaken Township, Election District 2, ED 135, Ulster, New York, United States" (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6739-3YF?i=2).
Ella Smith LV39-B5G (1871-), the wife of George A. Dutcher, is in the next household down on the same census page.
In other words, the one thing we know with complete and utter certainty about this Edna and Ella is that they are NOT the same person.
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**** - I must have been tired -- sooo sorry. I'm still trying to figure this out, thank you for keeping with me. I want to get this right.
Let me TRY to do this again (I'm kinda new at all this). I missread my own writing. George A. Dutcher I have as K8NL-Q89 - not "B".
George A. Dutecher's - (K8NL-Q89) wife on his profile is correct as Ella (F) Smith at LV39-B5G - If you click on this Ella Smith, it does not show a mother - but I'm 97% sure that her mother is Emma Smith (Burnham) - GFWV-TQC - but Ella Smith is not shown on her [Emma Smith (Burnham) - GFWV-2HL]'s profile either. Parsall Frank Dutcher - LBXS-H2H is my grandfather. looking at Parsall's profile at LBXS-H2H - is my mother's family.
Now I'll try for my Cousin's connecting line: Edna Smith - GFWV-2HL is Ella Smith's (LV39-B5G) sister. I have 2 different dates for Emma Smith's birthdate 1843 and 1851. I think an enumerator may have made an error, or I'm tracking 2 different Emma Smith's (Burnham) with daughters named "Edna and Ella". which makes it really confusing. I also show Edna F. Smith's - GCF9-FNN with the correct family but no mother shown, I'm trying to connect This whole family using FamilySearch to verify.
The cousin I'm interested in is "Emma Louise Mason - GKRP-JYC" - which again shows the family structure as I understand it less the mother of Edna Smith, which I believe is Emma Smith (Burnham) - GFWV-2HL.
As confused as I am, I don't want to muddy the waters by creating yet another connection in Family search connecting Ella Smith and Edna Smith to yet another Emma Smith (Burnham). Or, maybe "Burnham" is not the correct maiden name, I don't know, but I believe it is.
Again, Thank you for helping me on this and forgive my confusion.
Dean F. Gibson
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@DeanGibson2 If you click any PID in the tree, your mouse will copy it, and then you can paste, rather than writing, reading, copying.
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