Need help merging Colonial Americans?

Duplicate parents of 'Captain Joseph' merged; no current data conflicts on Joanna.

Erica Howton & Dan Cornett - Thanks for the fixes on Joanna Munson.

https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000004047110691?highligh...

Two sets of parents for Eliza Gawin Scott I got this from a merge of Frances Alexander wife of Charles Alexander, Sr.

William Owen "Bill" Irwin

Fixed for Eliza Gawin Rives

I messed up George T. Chilton

George T. Chilton unmerged and 'family' connections "re-constituted" (<smile>).

Thanks Dan, I'll work on the rest of the family tonight

John “Old” Bassett Two full sets of parents

William Owen "Bill" Irwin Angus & I have been cleaning up Bassett’s.

A word of caution on FindAGrave for origins of “early arrivers.” Their info for John “Old” Bassett was not entirely supportable. Look for Citations from reputable sources in their entries, otherwise it’s just a reference.

This is where i got confused https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L5ZW-BRS
Robert Bassett 1614 – 1670 L5ZW-BRS for Robert “the Drummer” Bassett

Don’t trust “any” site including Geni for first arrivers unless there are good notes in the profile to go by.

If there are not, request a sourcing / Biography effort. Maybe start a discussion in this project “Need help merging Colonial Americans” dedicated to that.

Yeah, family search is totally wrong.

To be specific, Family Search family trees are no better than anyone else's, for all the usual reasons. Their Records section is usually pretty reliable, though, as they draw from primary sources (and often have images of the original documents, besides).

The closer to “now” the more accurate the sites.

I hope I was clear that FamilySearch (and FindaGrave) had errors in this ‘
“specific” case. There are thousands, probably millions, of cases where they are spot on, and very helpful.

What I think happens in FS is the records are attached but misunderstood: “here’s John Smith, must be this one !”

Just as a follow up - it’s too bad FS got the wife mixed up with the wife of a different Robert Bassett, because this one is particularly interesting:

“Goody” Mary Bassett

Lieutenant Philip Smith, Deacon of Hadley is an MP profile with some locked fields.

https://books.google.com/books?id=7_UsAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA1015&amp;lp... has his birth year as 1685 not 1684 that his profile currently has.

This was sent to me via "Attention managers of....".

Thanks for the help in fixing.

Cicely Davis has 2 full sets of parents.

https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=72701023040 is one possible merge that caused this. There are several merges in late April 2016 as well.

Thanks for the help in clearing her up.

Emily Kent Marget Looks like this got cleaned up.

Rev. Robert Prudden has data conflicts on locked fields. Thus, I won't try to fix.

Emily Kent Marget Done.

Good job folks. I'm scarce due to personal commitments and a major relocation, but I hope to help Erica out here eventually.

By the way ... when I find FamilySearch relationships are screwy, I "clean them up" as best I can (from the records) before I then clean up the Geni profiles (and lock as may be needed).

Cleaning up FamilySearch minimizes someone "blindly" copying garbage back into Geni.

Yes, someone can come along and re-"mess up" the FamilySearch connections (since they don't have "Curators & Locking" as yet), but (so far) I've not encountered that as a problem when there are even a smidgeon of supporting records.

Margaret Filley has 2 full sets of parents. Likely cause - https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=72872988400.

Deacon Richard Butler has data conflicts but the fields are locked.

Thanks for fixing this.

The last merge or two on Deacon Richard Butler has left tree conflicts as well.

Emily Kent Marget I don’t see evidence supporting parents for Margaret Filley so have disconnected both offerings. There is no
daughter Margaret mentioned in the profile for John Bancroft

Emily Kent Marget I’m not happy with the way the Bancroft family is looking, and cross posted here:

https://www.geni.com/discussions/155615?msg=1082454

Emily Kent Marget I resolved data conflicts for Butler and am doing more merges, but tree conflicts need to be presented by profile link for me.

Erica Howton I forgot that. Someone has cleaned up his tree conflicts.

https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=72928815380 or https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=72214257520 has left Abigail Tudor with tree conflicts.

With many of the fields locked, I don't dare try to resolve.