Someone attached the wrong record as spouse to my great grandmother. The name and dates are Similar

LegacyUser

Someone attached the wrong record as spouse to my great grandmother. The name and dates are Similar but the whole details are a different person.

I don't know where to start. I see no way to detach the two records and my GGrandfather has no ID#. He is mentioned in several of the records attached to this Califirnia person, but attached to the incorrect person. The whole record is a mess, combining two or maybe 3 people's info. Isn't here any hope of untangling it?

Brett .

@JanettACall1 JanettACall1​ 

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Janet

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Your post is somewhat confusing ...

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What is very confusing, is when you say, your Great Grandfather has NO identification number.

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Are you saying that your Great Grandfather is NOT yet in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'?

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Or, you saying that, an INCORRECT individual/person, in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch', is associated as the Spouse (/Husband) of you Great Grandmother?

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Or, then again, are you referring to, an (Indexed) Record in "FamilySearch'; as, a "Source", that is already attached to someone in "Family Tree" of 'FamilySearch'.

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Can you please clarify.

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Brett

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LegacyUser

I apologize. It is hard to sort out. Evidently there is another John F. Stout that has a California death and headstone, whom has had records attached that are referring to my GGrandfather, John Stout who was born in Indiana in a similar time and died a few years different from this record, in Indiana and is buried with the rest of his family....wife and siblings. I have not found a John Stout with the right dates etc. When I look for him and ID number on Family search. The California John Stout has another wife and children and yet this ID is linked to records that are my GGrandfather's. I am pretty new to this genealogy stuff, and do not know how to sort this out. The outlier is ID K4BZ-G4Y. Note death as California. In Find a grave, there is memorial 82738217 in West Point Cemetary in Liberty, Union, Indiana, USA for John Franklin Stout 1862-1938, spouse Margaret McKillip. Buried nearby are my grandparents. If I had not grown up, hearing my father and grandparents talk about the McKillips as kin, I might not question the K4BZ-G4Y information. Sorry...this is probably still clear as mud!

LegacyUser

@JaneLayman JaneLayman​, I found this help document that may be helpful in resolving the incorrect relationship: LINK. Thank you for wanting to make things right, and I applaud your efforts. Sometimes things get a little tricky! I hope this helps!

ahowell3797272

https://community.familysearch.org/discussion/31281/someone-attached-the-wrong-record-as-spouse-to-my-great-grandmother-the-name-and-dates-are-similar

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