I incorrectly selected a wrong existing profile- how do I disconnect that erroneous profile?

Question

The other questions don't seem to provide the solution I need. I added Candace Carpenter, my 4th greatgrandmother - but I accidentally added an existing profile that belongs to a different person.  I can't find a way to delete or change this.  How do I "unconnect" Candace Carpenter from this other profile, that now has wrong parentage and marriage information.  Thanks Marge Bare

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If you did not change anything on her profile, just disconnect the connections - go to edit tab and on the right will be those connected to her and under the list of each type of connection there is an edit link that will allow you to disconnect - then either make a new profile or connect to the correct existing profile as you had intended

Answer 1

What is the other profile and Is there another profile manager. If there is another manager,try contacting first. They might help you untangle this

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There is NO other profile - just the one Carpenter-2975 that should NOT be my Candace Carpenter. My fault - this should NOT be so difficult to correct!

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How do I correct it?

Answer 2

I don't know which you want to remove, but go to the Edit tab, and along the side there are Edit Family controls. Each of those has an add/remove control, so just select that and it will give you some controls to remove whatever it is you're removing. Mistaken connections happen a lot, and it's not a big deal to remove.

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The dates for both birth and death will still need to be changed as well as location of death.

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Yeah, there are two different Hezekiahs. Johanna Aldrich married the one born in 1725, not the one born in 1736. That's what's messed up.

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I think the mother and father came about by way of the brother Uriah.

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No, sorry I meant the dates for Candace. Her birth, death and death location were changed by Marge and will still need correction.

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I'm just following what the source says., I think Johanna Aldrich still has some children that she shouldn't, but I disconnected the incorrect Hezekiah Carpenter.

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I'm-a gonna leave it all to you, now.  Too many cooks and all that.  Besides, you're doing a sterling job! 

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OK, I think I've got the whole mess deconvolved.

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Added warnings to the two Hezekiah Carpenters. I think we ought to get rid of this convenience feature that adds people as groups by default too. I don't know how much time I've wasted on here undoing inadvertent group connections.

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OK, I think I've got the whole mess deconvolved.

commented 13 minutes ago by Ben Buckner

Wonderful! 

I had something like 5 different tabs open and still was lost.

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It turns out there were two separate issues, the confusion with Marge and then a preexisting mistake where someone didn't bother reading the sources and decided that the two Hezekiahs were the same person, connecting one Hezekiah's wife to the other Hezekiah. Of course, it would help checking sources if people would put the page numbers in their source citations, as I'm sure we all learned in high school comp class.