Richard Trempe Southmayd 1913 - 1993
This person is incorrectly listed as the son of my grandparents Sidney Southmayd and Marie Trempe. My grandparents had only one child, Suzanne Marie Southmayd, my mother. Help me fix this error.
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Richard Trempe Southmayd (https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/LR88-QMP ) currently has two sets of parents listed. In the Sources, there's a link to the Springfield, Clark, Ohio 1920 US census for the household of Sidney F Southmayd, his wife Marie T, their daughter Suzanne M, a widowed brother of Sidney, named Edmond L Southmayd, and a nephew Richard T Southmayd.
The 1920 census clearly states that Richard T Southmayd is not the son of Sidney and Marie but a nephew. Based on this, and given the fact that there's already a couple named as his parents in the tree (the brother, I assume, Edmund Leroy Southmayd and wife Della T Trempe), I would simply delete the relationship to Sidney and Marie.
If I read the All Changes page correctly, the relationship to Sidney and Marie was made on 17 Jan 2022 and I'd contact the user mentioned to let them know in case there's any contention.
To remove the relationship I'd use the edit button on the children listing under the two sets of parents to "Remove or Replace" under the entry for Richard Trempe Southmayd, then click the "I have reviewed …" check and the button 'Remove Parents'. Since the other parents are already there, this should be enough.
If other people here have a better solution/technique, I'd be interested to hear it.
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@HollyPempin Thanks for the message.
In this situation, I would do what @FrankLittle suggested by clicking the pencil next to his name and clicking "Delete Relationship" at the bottom of the dialog.
If his dad hadn't been listed, I would have added a guardian relationship label using the same pencil and left his uncle and aunts listed as parents.
Does that help?
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Just a question from me, @Mary Anna Ebert :
If we only record what the evidence shows, although I imagine a guardian relationship might be true in some cases, since the boy is with his widowed father (I'm assuming) in his uncle's household in this 1920 census, I'm not sure it is accurate in this specific case. I don't think census data includes guardianship status (or is that different in a US census).
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@FrankLittle thanks for the question.
You are correct, censuses don't always show a guardian relationship. There are times I will add the guardianship relationship even though the sources don't explictly mention it when I can create a logic trail that proves it.
And you are correct, that since the boy is with his widowed father. I would do what you suggested by clicking the pencil next to his name and clicking "Delete Relationship" at the bottom of the dialog.
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