Comments on Walter Kibble

Question

On 25 Nov 2021 Stephen Davies wrote on Kibble-69:

this profile is completely empty of dates or relations suggest it is recycled

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The folk who work on "lost" profiles from gedcom imports may wish to look at it to see if he can be reunited with his family.

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It is difficult when there is no location or dates.  There is a profile for Walter Kibble 1859 - with family and sources on Geni.com

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is it same one though, i have Walter Kibble's in my family but not sure if it is him

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Is there any way to still “see” the original ged.com that it came from? Or, perhaps to see if any others with that surname were imported by the same person?

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I am not sure but I do not think so.

Answer 1

If you go to the profile and click on changes you will see the initial entry which gives a Gedcom link. When I click on that it says the Gedcom file has been removed.

On the profile, under acknowledgments, there is a link to a Rachel Wilson who is attributed with the Gedcom upload. The link for Rachel takes you to a Private profile - Stephenson-1194. Messaging that person about it would seem to be the next best step?

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I have done that. thanks

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I had assumed because it said, "To ask a question, send a private message to the profile manager, Closed Accounts WikiTree." that Rachel was no longer on Wikitree...

Answer 2

Hi, Stephen --

When there has never been any information on a profile -- i.e., no dates or locations; no family connections -- as well no change log that can help you identify a family, you can do a search at a repository like FamilySearch to find a person by the same name and source the profile using that information.

The person who imported this profile has a closed account now, so there's really no way to get information from the original contributor.

I've gone ahead and added information to this profile based on a census record I found for a person with the same name. Anyone can pick this up and flesh out this profile using the information that's now there.

Thanks!

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Understnd what you have done cannot say I actually agree with this as my Kibble's for instance are born in England and not USA. However I do understand  why you have added the source that you have

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Stephen -- since we don't know which Walter Kibble this profile was originally intended to represent, I took this action to give an example of how a profile like this can be handled.

You can now create a fresh profile for your Walter Kibble. :-)

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As I said I understand your actions and I know I can create a profile for my Walter if I choose to do so.