Okay, maybe you can help me straighten out my great-grandfather and his parents. When I first was able to use nFS last June, one of the first things I discovered was that my great-grandfather, John Peter Paxton, was showing *his* grandparents as his parents. His real parents were showing as an alternate set of parents. I managed to get his real parents in place, and placed a dispute on the wrong parents. So, after reading the latest from this list, I went back to his combined records, and note that there are 31 records for him. I did some combining last summer, but I'm reasonably certain that I didn't combine 31 records for him. I am hesitant to uncombine them at the moment, without a little feedback from someone else. As near as I can tell, the majority of the contributors are "LDS Temple Records." There are two other contributors who are not LDS Temple Records, but neither of them seem to be registered with nFS. So in this case, was the dispute the only thing I could have done? How would I resolve this otherwise? The one who apparently contributed the wrong parent information is one of the two I mentioned above, with a carryover into the first LDS Church Temple Records. The rest of the records either list the correct parents, or no parents at all. His ID# is KJJ4-PZ7, if anyone wants to take a look. Alice Allen Oakhurst Ward Family History Consultant Vancouver WA Stake Portland OR Temple District *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 4/1/2009 at 9:47 AM dsam52@sampubco.com wrote: >Same thing happened to my great-grandmother. Somebody disputed her >spelling of her name. Took me several months of trying to get it >removed. First step I did was to separate the record to find exact which >record was tagged wrong way. The exact one had correct spelling and >tagged as not mother of her 14 children while 52 other records had wrong >spelling and were not tagged. Took me some months to contact the person >who did the tagging. It turned out a helper goofed so my cousin supplied >me her LDS id and birth date then I removed the dispute tag then >proceeded to remerge the 53 records then went to the detail page, marked >every other mis-spelled and mis-named ones as incorrect along with >inclusion of the correct name. > >Greater danger is tagging the relationships for wrong reasons. The only >reasons that can be used to tag relationships are two - wrong mother or >wrong father, or even both parents, or the child with wrong sex. That's >it. Dates, places, names, go to the detail page of that person instead. > >David Samuelsen >
dispute wil not work. FWIW, I separated two records of John Peter paxton from the rest. then you will need to go into FamilyTree, and do the separation of two records of him from Samuel's family, then go back to nFS to be sure he is not in Samuel's family anymore, then combine him into the right family. David Samuelsen > Okay, maybe you can help me straighten out my great-grandfather and his > parents. > > When I first was able to use nFS last June, one of the first things I > discovered was that my great-grandfather, John Peter Paxton, was showing > *his* grandparents as his parents. His real parents were showing as an > alternate set of parents. I managed to get his real parents in place, and > placed a dispute on the wrong parents. So, after reading the latest from > this list, I went back to his combined records, and note that there are 31 > records for him. I did some combining last summer, but I'm reasonably > certain that I didn't combine 31 records for him. I am hesitant to > uncombine them at the moment, without a little feedback from someone else. > > As near as I can tell, the majority of the contributors are "LDS Temple > Records." There are two other contributors who are not LDS Temple > Records, but neither of them seem to be registered with nFS. So in this > case, was the dispute the only thing I could have done? How would I > resolve this otherwise? The one who apparently contributed the wrong > parent information is one of the two I mentioned above, with a carryover > into the first LDS Church Temple Records. The rest of the records either > list the correct parents, or no parents at all. > > His ID# is KJJ4-PZ7, if anyone wants to take a look. > > Alice Allen > Oakhurst Ward Family History Consultant > Vancouver WA Stake > Portland OR Temple District > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 4/1/2009 at 9:47 AM dsam52@sampubco.com wrote: > >>Same thing happened to my great-grandmother. Somebody disputed her >>spelling of her name. Took me several months of trying to get it >>removed. First step I did was to separate the record to find exact which >>record was tagged wrong way. The exact one had correct spelling and >>tagged as not mother of her 14 children while 52 other records had wrong >>spelling and were not tagged. Took me some months to contact the person >>who did the tagging. It turned out a helper goofed so my cousin supplied >>me her LDS id and birth date then I removed the dispute tag then >>proceeded to remerge the 53 records then went to the detail page, marked >>every other mis-spelled and mis-named ones as incorrect along with >>inclusion of the correct name. >> >>Greater danger is tagging the relationships for wrong reasons. The only >>reasons that can be used to tag relationships are two - wrong mother or >>wrong father, or even both parents, or the child with wrong sex. That's >>it. Dates, places, names, go to the detail page of that person instead. >> >>David Samuelsen >> > > > > > 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 >
One reason the grandparents could be listed as parents is that grandparents and parents were combined together in error. I recently helped a patron who had his grandparents listed as... parents of his (the patron's) grandfather. So, Manuel was the son of Manuel and Joana, and Manuel was the son of Manuel and Joana, and Manuel was the son of Manuel and Joana, and so on. I went to combined records and separated Manuel married to Joana from Manuel the grandfather. The loop was corrected. Note that placing a dispute there would not solve the problem at all. -------------------------------------------------- From: "DC & Alice Allen" <dcaallen@pacifier.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:40 PM To: <lds-ward-consultant@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Disputes > Okay, maybe you can help me straighten out my great-grandfather and his > parents. > > When I first was able to use nFS last June, one of the first things I > discovered was that my great-grandfather, John Peter Paxton, was showing > *his* grandparents as his parents. His real parents were showing as an > alternate set of parents. I managed to get his real parents in place, and > placed a dispute on the wrong parents. So, after reading the latest from > this list, I went back to his combined records, and note that there are 31 > records for him. I did some combining last summer, but I'm reasonably > certain that I didn't combine 31 records for him. I am hesitant to > uncombine them at the moment, without a little feedback from someone else. > > As near as I can tell, the majority of the contributors are "LDS Temple > Records." There are two other contributors who are not LDS Temple > Records, but neither of them seem to be registered with nFS. So in this > case, was the dispute the only thing I could have done? How would I > resolve this otherwise? The one who apparently contributed the wrong > parent information is one of the two I mentioned above, with a carryover > into the first LDS Church Temple Records. The rest of the records either > list the correct parents, or no parents at all. > > His ID# is KJJ4-PZ7, if anyone wants to take a look. > > Alice Allen > Oakhurst Ward Family History Consultant > Vancouver WA Stake > Portland OR Temple District > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 4/1/2009 at 9:47 AM dsam52@sampubco.com wrote: > >>Same thing happened to my great-grandmother. Somebody disputed her >>spelling of her name. Took me several months of trying to get it >>removed. First step I did was to separate the record to find exact which >>record was tagged wrong way. The exact one had correct spelling and >>tagged as not mother of her 14 children while 52 other records had wrong >>spelling and were not tagged. Took me some months to contact the person >>who did the tagging. It turned out a helper goofed so my cousin supplied >>me her LDS id and birth date then I removed the dispute tag then >>proceeded to remerge the 53 records then went to the detail page, marked >>every other mis-spelled and mis-named ones as incorrect along with >>inclusion of the correct name. >> >>Greater danger is tagging the relationships for wrong reasons. The only >>reasons that can be used to tag relationships are two - wrong mother or >>wrong father, or even both parents, or the child with wrong sex. That's >>it. Dates, places, names, go to the detail page of that person instead. >> >>David Samuelsen >> > > > > > 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 >