Help with family tree

AmyVidler

I am searching Vidler family

Please any help

Áine Ní Donnghaile

You'll likely have a better response if you share what you know and where/when you are researching.

AmyVidler

my grandfather Alfred Vidler was born 12/21/1871 in Hastings England became US citizen in 1917,. On the 1900 USA census I found him in Roxbury Ct living with his wife Martha, then 1920 found that they had a Daughter Dortha or Dorothy.
he passed away in 1946.

Paul W

@AmyVidler

The only close match I could find for an Alfred Vidler born late 1871 in the Hastings area was Alfred Jesse Vidler, whose birth was registered in the nearby Battle Registration District in the March 1872 Quarter. This individual has a Family Tree profile reference L6M6-GR5. I have just noticed you are one of the contributors to that profile, so maybe you would like to give an even more detailed explanation of what you are hoping to find on him and his family, as there is some good detail about him already attached: including relationships and a pedigree possibly going back to the early 16th century.

AmyVidler

the biggest question is there is a daughter listed and I never knew about her so trying to figure out what happened to her.
Dorothy Vidler born to Alfred and Martha

Around 1911

AmyVidler

is there a way to combine ancestory and an other research I have done?

Thank you very much

Áine Ní Donnghaile

@AmyVidler You may want to read this article about attaching external sources to the FamilySearch Family Tree: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-add-an-outside-source-to-family-tree

And this one about using the Share Link option from Ancestry: https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Sharing-an-Ancestry-Record to allow anyone to view the record from Ancestry, without having an Ancestry subscription.

Paul W

I assume you have noticed that "Tree Building Project" has, this very day, created a duplicate profile (GBDZ-8C3) for Dorothy E(velyn) Vidler LKBQ-2SS. Her spouse (not added to LKBQ-2SS) has been added there and you will also find a number of "Research Helps" for her on the duplicate profile.

After examining this in detail yourself, you might wish to merge the two profiles.

Incidentally, I just sent a message to "Tree Building Project" querying why they raised a duplicate here - and also why they provided a reason statement against the "Deceased" status of "100+ years old", whereas "over 110 years old" is the determining factor in Family Tree, where a birth date is not given for a Deceased individual.

AmyVidler

no I have not noticed that.
I am very new to this

I once did a ancestors tree which I wish I could merge

Paul W

Just took a further look and found what appears to be her death record - at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPV9-MHF?treeref=GBDZ-8C3 - obviously in the name of her spouse, but the 1911 New Jersey birth matches.

Her Record Hints (see https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/research-help/GBDZ-8C3 ) confuses matters, however, as her marriage record shows her mother as Mary Dykeman Vidler, not the "Martha E (Vidler)" that appears in the 1920 census record that include Dorothy E. in the same household.

Paul W

Something further I just noticed regarding Dorothy's profile at LKBQ-2SS. Another user has inputted a February 2000, DC death - but without any source / explanation. Looks like that needs to be deleted, along with Charles H Reilly needing to be added as her spouse. His newly created profile - at GBDZ-DZK - has some useful record hints attached, too.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

I confess that I have not actually looked at any of the profiles mentioned (too many tabs open already), but I suggest you consider the possibility that the census is wrong about Dorothy's parentage. (I have no idea whether it is or isn't, but it'd be one explanation for a relative of the parent having never heard of the child.)