How do I make changes in the entries?
My great-grandparents' names are incorrect on your site. I have their names. I also saw that the name listed died in Ohio. I know my great-grandfather never left Poland. How can I fix this?
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@Bernice929 There may be several people with the same name. If the profile you saw is connected to your family, then another contributor may have made the connection in error.
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Assuming all the other details match your great-grandfather and you are talking about his profile / ID in Family Tree, you can delete the data recorded in the Death field. (Unlike with other "Vitals" fields, you cannot Edit the inputs.) After you have deleted the incorrect data, make sure you replace it with what you know about his death - even if this is just "Poland" and an approximate year. Also, add a Reason statement below the details you have added. In this example, I would put something like, "Deleted incorrect Ohio death and added Poland event". If any sources have been attached relating to the Ohio death you will need to detach these, too.
As Colin points out, do make sure the issue does involve your relative (and simply involves a misunderstanding about the death). Also, if possible, try to identify the individual who did die in Ohio and transfer those death details to any existing Family Tree profile for him. Personally, if I can't find such a person (i.e., with some similarity to my relative, but obviously someone different), I create an ID myself for the other individual, adding a Note (in the Collaboration section) that he is not to be confused with the ID that represents my relative. However, if you do not have that level of experience in working within Family Tree, either come back here for further advice, or just correct your great-grandfather's details and leave identifying / creating a profile for the other person to somebody else.
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If you really want the best answer to your question, please post your great-grandfather's Family Tree ID. It is very possible that someone made a mistake and merged two people of the same name. One of whom died in Poland and one of whom died in Ohio. If that is what happened, it is generally best practice to reverse the merge back to the original two profiles.
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There are all sort of things that could be wrong. And if you start making changes without understanding what the problem really is then you're only going to make things worse.
This could be your great-grandfather's profile, simply with the wrong name and place of death on it.
It could be a profile for another individual entirely and simply in the wrong place in the tree.
It could be a conflation of two (or more) people, one of whom may be your great-grandfather.
It could be that the profile that appears to be your grandfather is a merge or conflation of two (or more) people, one of whom is the son of this individual.
There are probably other possibilities as well. As Gordon has suggested, posting the ID of the profile here will allow others to have a look and hopefully work out what the problem is.
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If this person has a different name and died in a different country, what makes you think this is your great-grandfather?
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He is in my family tree as my grandfather's father. I knew my grandfather and his information is correct. I also have the name of my great-grandfather. My grandfather came to Canada in the early 1900's from Poland. The rest of his immediate family stayed there, so I know my great-grandfather did not die in Ohio.
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@Bernice929, you will do yourself a favor if you post the Person ID [PID]. With that information the cause of your problem can be understood better, then an appropriate solution can be offered.
The PID is a string of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies a record in Family Tree. ID numbers consist of four characters, a hyphen, and then three more characters. An example ID is K8LL-TGB
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