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How do we know her name? What primary, contemporary source etc. Thanks in advance.
To me, at first glance, it appears this profile should be named 'Unknown Ruth (Roth) Unknown' or 'Unknown Ruth formerly Unknown aka Roth' but as it is currently, we seem to be either:
A) deceptively using her married surname in the database field for her first name at birth. That's not OK. Right?
OR if (A) is false, then:
B) We are currently telling the world we are 100% sure of two things (but lack any real sources proving) i) her given name was definitely 'Ruth' AND ii) her husband's LNAB was definitely Roth, and there is no ambiguity in what their daughter Esther's LNAB is. (Which that profile currently is unsure of.)
Either (A) or (B) means something is wrong with this profile as-is.
Since, it seems clear we have no idea (option C), we should make her 'Unknown Unknown' who m. Ruth/Roth.
Or even better, since we literally know nothing about this woman we can actually prove to Wikitree standards (gesturing at random Ancestry.com trees is not sourcing) then perhaps we should just delete this profile. And let her daughter rest as the last identified woman in this branch of our universal tree. If a primary source comes along later, great! In the meantime, I don't see how we justify publishing this hollow profile as factual history.
To me, at first glance, it appears this profile should be named 'Unknown Ruth (Roth) Unknown' or 'Unknown Ruth formerly Unknown aka Roth' but as it is currently, we seem to be either:
A) deceptively using her married surname in the database field for her first name at birth. That's not OK. Right?
OR if (A) is false, then:
B) We are currently telling the world we are 100% sure of two things (but lack any real sources proving) i) her given name was definitely 'Ruth' AND ii) her husband's LNAB was definitely Roth, and there is no ambiguity in what their daughter Esther's LNAB is. (Which that profile currently is unsure of.)
Either (A) or (B) means something is wrong with this profile as-is.
Since, it seems clear we have no idea (option C), we should make her 'Unknown Unknown' who m. Ruth/Roth.
Or even better, since we literally know nothing about this woman we can actually prove to Wikitree standards (gesturing at random Ancestry.com trees is not sourcing) then perhaps we should just delete this profile. And let her daughter rest as the last identified woman in this branch of our universal tree. If a primary source comes along later, great! In the meantime, I don't see how we justify publishing this hollow profile as factual history.