Person has two sets of parents
Over the past months, I am entering some of my many years of research into Family Tree. I watch videos to learn the proper process, but I am new to data entry here. Now I am working back my Mead line, and as I get to Nathaniel Mead Jr./III, KGCD-9HM, it is such a mess I just don't know where to start. This line is well documented in a 3-part article in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol .163, Jan, Apr and July 2009. I was involved with some of the research for that article.
There are many issues, but my question now is, if I go to his person page, it shows the wrong parents, Nathan Mead and Elizabeth Knapp, and it is checked Preferred Parents. (I don't know if there is a way to see who the unpreferred parents are.) However, if I go to his actual father, Josiah Mead 27VJ-TJ6 (who has the wrong wife, but that's an issue for another time), it correctly shows Nathaniel 9HM as his son. How can Nathaniel 9HM be in the tree with two sets of parents? What is the best way to fix this?
When I go to the Change Log for Nathaniel 9HM, it is so long it takes forever to scroll to the bottom. Kathryn Grant says to see who the intended person was, and as far as I can see, the person he is now is not the intended person he was originally supposed to be.
When I go to the change log for his father Josiah Mead, I see Nathaniel's with 5 additional different PID's added and deleted over time as Josiah's son.
I would love to get this straightened out, and I am willing to spend time on it, to conform to the published research, and add the sources. But I am overwhelmed, and not even sure if Nathaniel 9HM is the right person to be correcting.
Is there such a thing as a mentor or a buddy, who could work with me on this?
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This addresses only one small part of your question, but I figure every little bit helps.
The "preferred" parent/spouse is a per-user setting that controls which relationship is shown in chart views that can only show one such relationship at a time. For a user who has never touched a particular profile before, I believe the setting's default is "most recently edited". You can both see the other relationships and change the setting on the profile's Details page, in the Family Members section. The "Set Preferred" button is at the top left of that box, if it's applicable (that is, if the profile has more than one spouse or set of parents). The button's location on the "spouse side" can prove confusing: people expect another button on the "parent side" to edit preferred parents, but there isn't one: the single button serves for editing both preferred spouses and preferred parents.
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@Holly Kilpatrick I took a quick look and it appears that there have been merges in his parental lines and also within Nathaniel's own line.
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KGCD-9HM
So…. it's not going to be an 'easy' fix sad to say. I can't dig into this at the moment and it would take an investment of some serious time to sort it out. The end goal is to not only get Nathaniel's relationships sorted, but to also leave the individuals not belonging to him in a 'good state of affairs', so to speak. Ends up being twice the work since there are at least two lines that need to be dealt with….
Since you indicate you have a good feel on what should be right, for the moment I'd at a minimum add some collaborative entries for Nathaniel detailing how you think it should all go. That way if someone can dig into this, they'd have your knowledge to work from and provide an ability to reach out to you directly about questions
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Mark, Thank you, I think I may write up an explanation of the situation and put it in Discussion under Collaboration because someone said that can't be deleted. I think my skills with Family Tree, sort of First Grade at this time, probably aren't up to diving in to a college level issue! Good suggestion.
Julia, thanks for that explanation, I will go back and look at that again.
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Hi Holly - Please see a private message. Look for the red dot in the upper right corner.
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