Duplicate dates and names for GXLR-GBW...GVR6-BR7 ... G3LX-C4Y ... GVR6-Y3T
Hi,
I am a descendant of the Fletcher Family of St. Andrews, Fife Scotland (I live in Melbourne Australia).
As I am looking at the pedigree of the Fletcher line, I see that the above profiles are somewhat duplicated in the tree.
I do not have the skill or knowledge to fix this error as the profiles are somewhat the same and I don't want to mess the tree up. The primary problem is the details for the husband in both instances.
There has been some excellent work in fixing this line up, but the above two male profiles are the only problem that is left to rectify.
Thanking you in advance
Joanne Fletcher_2
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Firstly, I wonder if you are looking at the correct pedigree, as all the names I have been looking at relate to individuals who lived in England. That said, I would not take much of this detail as being correct, as dates are obviously wrong (children being shown as being born after their father's death, etc.) and locations varying from the far south to the far north of England.
There are many such pedigrees in Family Tree - I have connections to one for a PAYNE family, whereby some inexperienced (or careless) users have added individuals who lived throughout England, instead of realising there were quite a number of "Thomas Payne" individuals, totally unrelated, alive at the 15th / 16th century period.
My advice would be to take much of what you read, for individuals that users have added for such an early period, as fictional and needing far more evidence attached to enable it to be taken at all seriously. True, you may have the rough outline of a family who existed in England (I have not found your Scottish connection yet) at this time, but you would have to undertake a fair amount of personal research to get to anything like the actual facts.
The reliability of the information shown in your screenshot is immediately put in doubt by the inclusion of middle names for a number of these individuals: a middle name was quite rare at that time, yet many users seem to find it impossible to believe that their relatives back then could have gone without having one!
You say: "There has been some excellent work in fixing this line up, but the above two male profiles are the only problem that is left to rectify", but I believe, if you look deeper, you will find this far from being the case and you will find there is far more here that needs checking out and correcting.
Unless you are really desperate to connect yourself to this FLETCHER branch, I would advise you to take a long, hard look at these profiles (generation by generation) until you can have any confidence in the reliability of the pedigree. I have been working for many years on my PAYNE family of Suffolk, England, but some of the names / relationships that have been added to Family Tree by other users are so ludicrous I have just had to leave them as they are, with added notes to explain the unlikelihood of the "facts" attached.
I wish you well in working on this family, but without probate records (wills) and other official documents, establishing facts about individuals / families living before the commencement of parish register records (from around 1538) is always a very difficult task.
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I concur fully with @Paul W 's comments.
Records from this time period predate parish records. Your likely best sources are Herald's Visitations. To find out when these happened in different counties, see the FamilySearch wiki article https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/England_Heraldry#Herald.27s_Visitations
There is also an article in Wikipedia
As to getting copies of the visitations, you will likely need to hunt for them via Google. I own a number on CD published many years ago by an outfit called Archive CD books but the English arm of this shut down some years ago and I am not sure on the current status of successors in other countries (who also sold the English ones).
The heraldic visitations are not 100% reliable but at least this is better than no sources at all.
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