Advice before merging these pre-1700 Blake profiles?

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Blake-1488 is a duplicate of Blake-9984 (side-by-side comparison) so they should be merged.

Should I contact one of the pre-1700 projects or know about any style guidelines before proceeding?

Or perhaps someone with more WikiTree experience would like to complete the merge? Let me know if you do. Thanks!

WikiTree profile: Sarah Morse
in Genealogy Help by Scott Harris G2G Crew (340 points)

1 Answer

+3 votes
Hi Scott,

Do you have a marriage record for her? Or her parents' will/probate? While the FAG is clearly for the same person, there's no sources and not even a picture of her gravestone.

If you do the merge without sources you're basically saying "I, as the creator of this gedcom, intended this person to represent the same person as profile Blake-9984." Which isn't terrible because at least you're still around to tell what you intended, but it's not a position that someone else can verify.
by LK LaPlante G2G6 Mach 1 (19.5k points)
edited by LK LaPlante

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