Linker offers people to choose from, but DOB, other data is different from what displayed

PeterLiepmann

Linker said DOB was 1844 not 1815 15 Feb 1844

Offered MGFM-TFZ , G8M2-S2C DOB was 1844 and M551-6WN BIRTH 15 Feb 1843

Ernst Carl Friedrich Braeder

Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971

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Ernst Carl Friedrich Braeder

LW5R-8P9 SPOUSE SPOUSE Johnne Ida Auguste Fischer

Deceased • LW5R-8GB

Ernst Carl Friedrich Brader

MGFM-TFZ BIRTH BIRTH 15 Feb 1844 ,, Pommern, Germany SPOUSE SPOUSE Johanne Ida Auguste Fischer

1842-Deceased • GPQ1-JKM

PARENTS PARENTS Ernst Ferdinand BraderHanna Friederike Kindermann

Ernst Carl Friedrich Bräder

G8M2-S2C BIRTH BIRTH 15 Feb 1844 PARENTS PARENTS Ernst Ferdinand BraederHanna Friederike Kindermann

Ernst Carl Friedrich Braeder

M551-6WN BIRTH BIRTH 15 Feb 1843 Pyritz,Pommern,Prus PARENTS PARENTS Ernst Ferdinand BraederHanna Friederike Kindermann

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I chose MGFM-TFZ but when I went to person DOB was 1815

Julia Szent-Györgyi

Are you talking about attaching this index entry (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPV5-7BX5) to this profile (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MGFM-TFZ)? If so, I think you're misinterpreting what Source Linker is saying. Ernst Carl Friedrich Bader's father (named Ernst Ferdinand Bader) has a birthdate of 1815. Source Linker lines up the index entries with Tree profiles based on their indexed relationships, so the Ernst born in 1844 is lined up with MGFM-TFZ, and his parents appear above him, lined up with MGFM-TFZ's parents: Ernst born in 1815, and Hannah born in 1818.

It looks like these are index-based legacy-data profiles, and you've found the exact "tryptich" to correspond with the index entry, since the names and the event date and place match verbatim between the index and the profiles. The parents have lots of duplicates, corresponding to the indexed baptisms of their other children (and possibly other events, such as marriages and deaths; I haven't looked in great detail). In my cleanup efforts of such old data, finding and attaching the originating index entries is generally my first step; it can usually be figured out even if the images aren't available, as here. (Or not with a non-LDS account like mine, anyway.)

(I am highly reluctant to take the next step, of actually merging the profiles, without being able to look at the actual documents, because indexes are incomplete and often wrong. I'd want to verify things like house-numbers, occupations, and godparents to make sure they were really the same family. Tedious as they are, merges are a lot easier than unmerges.)