How do I integrate people into my tree and remove people I know aren't part of my family?

Laura63318

I have an extensive family tree from Great Grandma. I know her siblings, with their nicknames, from Grandma. I know her father's siblings and marriages from the family Bible. There are too many siblings listed in her father's family, and there are a couple missing who died young. What is the best way to fix it up? Is there a place to include pictures of the things I've inherited?

Gail Swihart Watson

You definitely put all kinds of photos up in memories. BUT it is very important to also source everyone. My parents and grandparents are some of the most heavily sourced people I have worked on. I have not only uploaded birth and death certificates to memories, but I have attached all sources and digitized personal items I have I can find with them referenced, such as social security, ALL census records, their college transcripts, yearbook photos, lots of personal photos professional mentions in published locations, military service sources, travel passenger lists, marriage license and certificates, newspaper clippings, letters, etc. When you upload personal copies of death, birth and marriage certificates to memories, you can create sources out of memories, and then tag every person mentioned. That way a grandparent is connected by that source to the child if the death, birth and marriage cert is for the child. Any persons connected that are wrong should be disconnected.

Source, source, source. That is the best way to protect your family members' person pages from being updated incorrectly by others. Others have added information to some of my parents and grandparents, but the changes have all been valid contributions.

Laura63318

I try to source as much as I can, and most of my personal knowledge I have sources for. Once in a while I know because Grandma told me, but I also still have Grandma to ask.

Is there a why to delete duplicate people? Like my great grandma's family all went by nicknames, so Archie and Howard Archibald are the same person. Every one of her siblings are listed twice because of this.

Thank you

Julia Szent-Györgyi

@Laura63318, you get rid of duplicate profiles by merging them. Here are a couple of relevant Help Center articles on merging:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-decide-if-two-records-in-family-tree-are-about-the-same-person

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-merge-duplicates-in-family-tree-by-id