Can someone help me fix this mess?

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I try to be careful when completing these old pending merges, but alas, sometimes I make mistakes. This appears to be one such time. I think that this profile is now a mix of two or maybe even three generations of men named Thomas Rees. Can someone help me get it sorted out? Jumping in and researching a family I'm not familiar with is not my strong point, and I know there are people here with a lot more experience with US records than I have.

So far I've at least disconnected him as his own father. But I think new profiles need to be created for the other Thomas Rees (or maybe two of them), and spouses and children need to be attached to the right people. I also don' t know which person the picture is of.

I've made Thomas Rees's profile open for now. I can do any edits required to his children if the parents need to be changed on them.

Any help would be much appreciated!
WikiTree profile: Thomas Rees
in Genealogy Help by Liander Lavoie G2G6 Pilot (452k points)

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Looking at the bio I would say you have merged 3 profiles, but only 2 people. 1st one is b. 1820 Wales, d. 1885 Utah, USA. This is the person with pictures.

I'll have a more thorough look...

Update: I have done what I can, but the profile still needs fixing, I also did not do any 'cosmetic' changes except for eliminating duplicated information.

Required Fixes:

Thomas Rees Sr, has been re-created as Rees-516, but I could not add most of the children to him. they should be  Rees-148, Rees-142, Rees-143 (all by wife Eleanor). I also did not set any profile managers.

While I was editing I also noticed that Mary Rees (Rees-132) has been incorrectly merged. Thomas Rees (Rees-93) has a daughter Mary (m. Mr. Smith and Mr. Miles) He also has a sister named Mary (m. Mr. George). The Mary who is currently the daughter of Rees-93 has all 3 spouses.

by Rob Ton G2G6 Pilot (288k points)
selected by Wendy Hampton
In case someone else wants to sort out the Mary problem.

Mary, d/o Rees-516 and Furlong-9 (b.1822, Middlemast, Pembrokeshire, South Wales; chr. Talbenny Parish, Pembrokeshire, South Wales; d. 1880; m. James GEORGE.

Mary d/o Rees-93 and Williams-1996 (b. Walton West, Pembroke, Wales m. 8 Feb 1860 Haverford, Pembroke, Wales Edward David Miles; m. William Ross Smith

Thank you so much, Rob!

I've done the following:

  • Attached Rees-148, Rees-142, and Rees-143 as children of Rees-516.
  • Marked Rees-516 and Rees-93 as rejected matches so this hopefully never happens again.
  • Added the correct profile managers to Rees-516.

I'll look into fixing the Mary problem as soon as I have the time.

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