Wrong parent on old GEDCOM import?

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I've been trying to add dates and sources to some of the old GEDCOM profiles. Came across one that had only daughter and parents, daughter's profile has marriage data. No dates or sources on the parents. The mother's name (profile) does not match the listed marriage data. Found plenty of sources using names found in marriage data, not a hint of mother's profile name linked to husband or daughter.

Not sure what the accepted procedure is. My thoughts are that the GEDCOM is obviously wrong, would lean towards correcting the mother's profile/name.

Suggestions? Comments?
WikiTree profile: Gerritje van den Brink
in Genealogy Help by Gloria King G2G3 (3.5k points)

4 Answers

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I had a look, there was not much clean up to do as it all seems to be research notes, so I cleaned it up. You can see from the changes tab what was done. 

Here is a help page on Gedcom profile cleanup that you might like to look over for future reference.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:GEDCOM-Created_Biographies#Badly-Formatted_Source_Information

by Lorraine Nagle G2G6 Pilot (222k points)
Thank you!
+3 votes
Hi Gloria, you are indeed right.  The mother must be Gijsbertje Rijswijk. See the sources in the research note.  

Solution, adopt the wrong mother, change the Last Name at Birth and the first name.  Place the sources from Research under Sources or cite them in the text in Gerritje Brink's profile.  Enter the data from the 3 sources (Birth, Marriage and Death) in the appropriate fields.  finally remove the Unsourced banner and orphan the profile again if you wish.

Gr. Joop
by Joop van Belzen G2G6 Pilot (161k points)
Joop, that's exactly what I thought. (BTW, linked sources were recently added by me.) But since I'm relatively new to genealogy, wanted confirmation before completely changing a profile. Thank you!

a second option is to create a new profile of the "real" mother and disconnect the "wrong" mother.  Then you prevent a Re-direct, redirection from the ID of the old profile (which in principle will continue to exist) to the new ID.  The downside is that the disconnected profile becomes solitary.  Well, it's a choice between two "bad" solutions.

laughJoop

+3 votes

Before doing what Joop says, I would double-check that Jannetje Hendriks doesn't represent a real person who was married to Gerritje's father.  

If she was Gerritje's step-mother, that might explain how she came to be attached as her mother.  Or she could have been the father's first wife, perhaps.  

If the profile doesn't represent a real person of that name, then she represents Gerritje's mother and I would do what Joop says.  
 

Edited to say: Sorry, just re-read your question properly and realised you've already done this.  smiley

LP

by L Parr G2G6 Mach 4 (47.9k points)
edited by L Parr
Thank you!
+4 votes

The marriage registration contains an error. In the relevant 'huwelijksbijlagen' the birth extract states she is born in Baarn, not Barneveld (

"Netherlands, Gelderland Province Civil Registration, 1800-1952," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-3V3W-GR?cc=1949343&wc=Q84W-RZM%3A299946901%2C300373801 : 30 June 2014), Barneveld > Huwelijksbijlagen 1872-1882 > image 2094 of 2552; Rijksarchief de Gelderland, Arnhem (Gelders Archive, Arnhem).)

. This makes https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/28769713 her birth registration. Her death registration: https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/17806176

The parents in the profile could be the parents of Gaartje in https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/18264087, they might have married end c17 and are too old to be the parents of Gerritje in the profile.

by W Koster G2G6 Mach 2 (23.6k points)
Thank you!

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