I helped a patron undo a parent/child merge the other day. Three generations of the same people as parents and children. It takes a little time but the new process was much cleaner than I had experienced in nFS. Be sure to watch the video lessons on unlinking people to see how it is done first. the make sure you document the sources and reasons to help others avoid making the same mistakes again. Then add them to your watch list so you will be notified if it happens again and who is doing it. You can then contact them and explain, in a nice way, why what they did was incorrect. Once everyone gets used to working collaboratively in "Our Tree" instead of "My Tree" it should be much easier. Miles Meyer Jacksonville, FL "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss, The Lorax On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Gay Davis <grdavis@centurytel.net> wrote: > I was working on NFS yesterday and will start working from now on with > Family Tree to straighten out the line I worked with yesterday. I was > aghast to find on a Richards line, which I thought was in good order, that > a person had gone in and entered death and burial dates of 2012 for people > born in the 1700's. In addition, new lines have been brought in by adding > people that don't really belong in a particular family. Some of the > entries now have couples as their own parents, e.g., John and Sally are the > couple and John and Sally are the parents also (same people). It is > discouraging to put in so many hours with well researched data and then > have it all convoluted It will take many hours to try and straighten this > out if it is even possible. I am afraid this will be a perpetual problem. > > Gay Davis > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mary S. Scott (Michigan) > To: lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 9:13 AM > Subject: [LDS-WC] Cleaning up on Family Tree > > > David's point about cleaning up our family lines on Family Tree is right > on target. > > The other day I was working on Family Tree and looking at some of my > husband's families, particularly the Tanner families from Payson, Utah. > > Earlier that day I had read an LDS biographical sketch about a sister in > a newly published book. > > The sister's husband had married several women before the Manifesto. > They lived in some of the areas where my husband's family had lived. One of > his daughters married a man with the surname of Tanner. > > I went on Family Tree and wanted to see how this daughter was related to > my husband. > > As I looked at the records for the various Tanner branches, I was amazed > at the inconsistencies and inaccuracies which are there. > > For instance, the information about John Tanner (the early convert to > the Church who gave a substantial amount of money for the Kirkland Temple > to Joseph Smith) > needed immediate attention. (John Tanner never lived in Payson but his > third wife and many of his children did.) > > John Tanner's mother was Thankful Tefft but Family Tree had Thankful > also as the wife of John. (Terrible error and not one to let carry down to > people who might not know the difference. It needed to be corrected > immediately and appropriate explanations added.) > > The family relationships were certainly in need of careful examination > and correction. With my husband's approval, I started the process of > correcting these relationships. > > As I told my husband, we will need to look at every one of his family > lines because there are probably changes which need to be made for many > family members. > > My husband isn't that keen on family history but if we don't do these > changes who will? If not now, when? > > Are we going to wait for our children and unborn grandchildren to be > interested? It might not happen. > > I think now is the time and it is a task which we can do while we are > able to do so. > > As I used to tell my family history classes, we can work on one family > at a time. Straighten it out, add sources and notes, check ordinances, > merge if necessary, etc. We don't have to attack the entire tree but only > these smaller twigs in a methodical way. When we feel one family is in > order, than we can move to another family. > > Besides, as we work on Family Tree, we can address issues and offer > insights or feedback. > > Thanks for listening. I learn a lot from each of you. > > Mary Scott > Aurora, Illinois > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >