Mystery Birth Date
There is a source consistency issue on https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/9VR6-17Z
aka Minerva Clark, aka Minerva Foos.
The Source Conistency states: "This person has a birth date of 9 April 1862, which does not match the date 1881.Henry Foos, "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001""
I can find no DOB in a death record for Minerva that states that 1881 is her DOB year. I can find nothing in the record on her husband Hiram K. Foos that has that error.
Can someone look into this, or help figure out what the system is recognizing???
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The problem is that a source for her son is attached to her so the routine is viewing her son's information as hers. This is the source: Henry Foos, "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001" dated 1882. This record states he was one year old when he died in 1882 and thus gives a birth year of 1881.
You need to detach that source from Minerva and attach it to a son Henry or Harry if this really is a source for Harry. There is a birth date for Harry of 13 August 1882 with the death date of 11 Oct 1882 but that death record for Henry states he was 1 year 28 days on 11 Oct 1882. I'll leave it to you to explain that discrepancy. Could Minerva have had an additional son born in September 1881? Or is the death record wrong in that the clerk put a 1 in the year column instead of the month column?
It is nice that the quality checker gives the title for the source that is causing the problem.
I'm not sure why someone dismissed the other two problems the quality checker pointed out, that the source said her name was Henry and that she was male. I clicked undo on those to put them back so you can see that they properly vanish when that source is removed and put on the right person.
This ability to point out incorrectly attached sources is one thing the quality checker tends to do very well
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Looking again, I see that there is a hint on Minerva for another copy of the death record for Henry. That happens when one incorrect source is attached to a person. It tends to attract more. Ignore it for now. It should vanish when the other source for Henry is detached.
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