I stumbled upon a muddle of profiles that are a much bigger project than I can take on, so I'm throwing this out into the wider community hoping that untangling the knot will be somebody's jam.
The tangle originates with Henry Adam Wensil (1840?-1922), a farmer and CSA soldier in Rowan County, North Carolina. He appears to have had two wives, and some children with both, including a son Henry A. Wensil Jr. (1861?-1932). Henry Jr had a wife, Mary, and some children, and along the way profiles for Junior's children were created with Henry Sr and Mary as the parents.
Friends, this tangled tree has it all: Henry Sr's second wife is one of those women who turns up in the records as Janie-Sally-Minnie-every-name, she was probably at everyone's beck and call but it does make identifying the children she gave birth to a little harder. This tree has the omissions and errors on FindAGrave that make our WikiTreer hearts sing. It even has some possibly fictional names invented without sources on the FamilySearch tree, because "Margaret" just sounds more correct than "Maggie," doesn't it? Every single profile I have looked at the sources for in detail is its own treasure box of genealogical missteps and conundra.
For those of us researching in the region, some of the profiles were created in the Larry Hayer gedcom of 2011, just to give a sense of what work has gone before.
The muddle is so stubborn I'm wondering if there is another H. A. Wensil and Spouse family group mixed in with their... cousins.
Anyway, I'm confident that someone who can spend more time than I have, and who is interested in Carolina genealogy, could put everyone in this family in their proper place after spending some time looking at the census records and marriage records and death certificates. The only question is: is that someone you?
