Fixing multiple errors on multiple people
I have been trying to clean up one of my families and there is so much that is incorrect I'm overwhelmed. There are wrong spouses, wrong sources, multiple spouses with incorrect children. I'm not sure where to start … sometime in my genes wants to fix it. My husband just says "walk away, walk away" :)
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From your brief description, it sounds like you are dealing with multiple bad merges. Fixing complicated problems can be a very satisfying and rewarding task but will take times. View the work you need to do to be at least a two month project.
Before you start I would recommend viewing a couple of excellent presentations that you should find very helpful:
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Here is an old thread about having trouble with just one person which I replied to and outlined my way of handing such problems:
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I should mention that the example I wrote about in my old post was a fairly extreme one that really did require creating two new profiles are part of untangling one. Usually I don't need to do that. But what I do instead is find a person in the family with the most correct information as a starting point. This is usually a child one generation away from where the problem starts who has had no or few merges. I then go to that child's change log (the current version, not the new one) and look at the very oldest entries to evaluate who that child was created to be. Then I add or fix all the information I can on that child and add all the sources I can find. Next do the same for every sibling and from then proceed to parents, aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents.
An important key to this is to just fix one person at a time.
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