What should be done with William Younger?

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I adopted this profile without looking at it before hand.

It is for  someone who lived in the early 1800's, but is connected to someone else's current DNA results and was written by someone who became a WikiTree volunteer.

The biography is a synopsis of (presumably) the original volunteer's understanding of their line instead of the family, life and sources of the William named.

The email address was later changed by Bech-2.

I am very confused! What should be done?

Edited to add: it is categorized in DNA Project Maintenance Category DNA Test Misplaced. I don't know how to remove the DNA data, which clearly belongs to a much more recent person, from the profile. Nothing appears on the edit page which refers to DNA.
WikiTree profile: William Younger
in Policy and Style by L Sauls G2G6 Mach 2 (22.7k points)
edited by L Sauls
I found the text unreadable, so I went through to make small cosmetic changes, mostly create visible breaks in the places paragraph breaks appeared in the source text.

In so doing, I was thinking that this content should be moved to a free-space page about the family. It is not about just one person -- and I am not at all sure where to find William Younger in this text...
This profile is even more interesting when you look at the changes log and discover that William himself b. 1803, set up the profile for himself.

I agree with Ellen, the entire text should be moved and heavily edited for readability and to separate the various family members. Of course reliable sources will be needed to sort it all out. Nice project for a Sunday afternoon (or 2).

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+2 votes
Well the Y line DNA wouldn't be an issue that it's a direct male descendant , because it would barely mutate over several generations and would still fall within the group listed on FTDNA.

The profile definitely needs cleaned up and shortened, or sectioned for readability. Probably find the various family members and move some information to their profiles.

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by Loretta Morrison G2G6 Pilot (178k points)

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