Advice on a profile
Please can someone look at these people in the tree especially at the supposed marriage of Jonathan to Mary Langdon.
I noticed that FamilySearch added a England Births and Christening source for John Crispin 20 Mar 1745 Bishops Nympton Devon England which is not correct for Jonathan seeing as he is born in Burlington New Jersey!
Jonathan Crispin (LH5W-B5T) born 15 April 1746 Mount Holly, Burlington, New Jersey he is listed as marrying Mary Hewlings on 14th May 1770 in New Jersey. Their children all born USA. His parents are Benjamin Crispin (9NTR-HNK) and Margaret nee Owen (L4R6-1FT)
Further down he is listed as marrying a Mary Langdon (MDKH-G23 ON 22nd September 1771 Bishop's Nympton Devon and the children are born in Devon. Looking at the marriage source attached it clearly says John not Jonathan.
I am wondering if someone has added the marriage to Mary Langdon by mistake. All the children of this marriage are born in devon and the sources attached for the Baptisms all list the father as John, or whether when a merge has been done it hasn't been done properly.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Judi
Answers
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I agree there has been an error. I think you should go ahead and delete the incorrect relationship/s.
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Thank you, I will do it carefully.
Judi
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Hi Judi,
I'll take a stab at helping here as there was a merge in January that got things a big cross-wise. What I intend to do is first create a new husband for Mary Langdon using information from records attached to her. I'll use 'John Crispin'.
Next I will be sure to include the marriage record details for this 'John Crispin' so that information doesn't get 'lost' in our next step.
While still on the profile page for Mary Langdon, I'll modify her relationship to Jonathan Crispin by removing him as a spouse. It is important that I do this from her page so that her children remain 'connected' to her. Now that we have her disconnected from Jonathan we need to make our 'new' John Crispin' the father for Mary's children.
Last thing will be to remove all the errant sources currently attached to Jonathan Crispin. Then follow-up by going to Mary's Sources tab and John Crispin's Record Hints to find all the 'Unfinished Attachments' and records so that we can point them to our new, 'John Crispin' [which btw was the name for the individual merged back in January]
Thought I'd save you the time.... All seems back to where it was.
Mark
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Hi Mark,
A huge thank you for correcting this for me and my Husband, it is actually my husband's line. We attended virtual RootsTech and it looked like he was related to Steve Rockwood, CEO of FamilySearch, Crista Cowan from Ancestry and Constance Knox of Genealogytv along with several new cousins. Was feeling a bit daunted at doing the correction so am so pleased that you have solved it for us.
Thanks again
Best wishes,
Judi.
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Just as information, sometimes an unmerge can be done. in this case an unmerge can’t be done but a restore of the original person that was deleted in the merge can be done ( see below) That way you might keep more of the original info that was on the deleted person. That would be preferred. in fact, I would consider restoring that person and merging with the new person that was created to keep more of his original info.
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Instructions for undoing a merge and restoring the deleted person
https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-undo-a-merge-in-family-tree
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Hi janette,
Thanks. It has been sorted out now thanks to Mark.
Judi
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Janette's suggestion about Restoring the deleted [thru merge] individual instead of creating a 'new' John Crispin is really the way to go. Once that's done, then sort out the Sources.
Thanks Janette!
ps I did as you suggested doing a restore/merge with the 'new' John Crispin to keep his 'Changes' timeline
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Looks like someone fixed this on March 7th and Mary Langdon (MDKH-G2W) is now married to John Crispin (M8NJ-3RC).
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