Best way forward with a dodgy profile? [closed]

Question

This particular profile was added through a GEDCOM import several years ago by a distant relative of my wife's.

I can't find any supporting evidence for Helen Sharpe as a wife of Bryce Martin - in fact, that is his mother's name and there is already a profile for her.  I suspect it was an error. His wife was Agnes (Annie) Stevenson, who doesn't have a profile yet.

So my question is - should I "recyle" this profile and turn it into Agnes Stevenson? Or delete the marriage relationship & merge it with his mother's profile?

Answer 1

Hi Mark, on wikitree we try not to delete profiles.. so in this situation, by looking at the profiles and the parents, my assumption would be that the person, loaded a gedcom, then accidently attached Helen to the wrong spouse, In this sort of situation, i believe the best thing to do, is disconnect Helen from the current spouse, Then make create a match/merge to the other Helen Sharpe and merge this profile into that one. Because the 2 have the same last names and one id devoid of sources, this should make if easy.  just make use to adjust the questionable Helen Sharpe b-date & d/date to match the other accurate Helen Sharpe (mother profile).  after this you should be good to go -with the match merge of the 2 Helen Sharpe profiles, &  after this- to add/ create Agnes Annie Stevenson profile

Comments

I concur with Arora's advice. Like the help page on Recycling IDs says, recycling a WikiTree ID is almost never appropriate.

Answer 2

Personally, I would recycle it.

Comments

Then you would end up with Sharpe-620 having a completely different LNAB. Disconnect, merge and create new one should be cleaner.