Weird duplication of a spouse/parent
Not really sure how/why this is happening.
On MANY occasions, people that were 'done' in my tree, are out of nowhere having a duplication of one parent with the other parent being left out.
So basically a person i.e. me - is shown as having two sets of parents. 1 set that is fine and the other setthat just duplicates i.e. the father and the mother remains allegedly unknown.
I'm so tired of endlessly correcting that every two days for different people.
Is is some bug that appears while copying over from RootsdMagis or ir it something that occurs in FS?
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Many older - especially baptism - records just mention the father of the child, not the mother. So, if you add a source, or (as has been suggested) merge two IDs for the father, the child 's name will not be added under the (unnamed) mother - just that of the father. Where this occurs, I simply detach the relationship that is just to the father, adding a note: "Child positioned under both parents". The main incidence of where you might want to have a child listed under a single parent and two parents on their Details page is where the child's biological father is unknown, but you want the child positioned beneath the mother and a person she later married (e.g., in a step / adoptive relationship with the mother's spouse).
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As you can see this can happen in many different ways. You can generally determine exactly how by examining the Change Log. If you would like a specific answer for some of these you have seen, then post the ID numbers of a few of them here so people can look at those particular examples. I would expect that the majority of these are halfway completed merges where someone merged a duplicate but then never went back to complete the job by merging the person's parents.
This can also happen when a person has one Family Tree record with both parents and a second Family Tree record with only one parent. Someone may merge the person, then merge the duplicate parent, then not know how to "merge" the other parent who is missing from the second record so just leaves it. I find it cleanest to add a temporary other parent where he or she is missing then merge the duplicate other half of the couple. This is the most efficient way to take care of this if there is more than one child in the family and it preserves underlying data about the family that is not universally visible in the database that deleting a relationship can lose.
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I believe that happens when someone fairly new is adding a source that applies to multiple members of the same family. If FamilySearch notices that, say, 5 family members are all in the source, that is fine. But if that isn't the case because perhaps the spelling is slightly different (or whatever), then the person adding the source has to manually make sure it gets attached to the right people and doesn't create new people. Since we are dealing with different source attachment interfaces at the moment, my bet is that's where the breakdown is with inexperienced members not realizing what they are doing.
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It can be caused during merges. I fix them all the time from others. When on the second merge screen you can move the single child from the right side back over to the left side to prevent this from occurring. Many people are just unaware to do this while merging.
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