Wrong use of LNAB Partner?

Question

I am just about to start adding a family who have the surname Partner. In checking existing profiles before creating any new, I came across 6 profiles with the name "Unknown Partner". A quick glance at them suggests that for some of them partner has been used in the relationship sense of the word rather than as a real surname. Looks as though there may be a job to do in checking for sources and correcting LNAB here.

Anyone interested in tackling these? I am trying not to let myself get sidetracked from adding real Partner folks.

Answer 1

Isn't there some sort of "disputed..." template you could add to the profiles to help track them?

Comments

Thanks for the suggestion Dennis. I just took a quick look so I have not yet done enough work to be able to conclude they are disputed.

Answer 2

You could create Category: Partner Needs LNAB and add https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Needs_LNAB as a parent category. Then when you find one of these, place it in this new maintenance category.

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Thanks for the suggestion Ellen. That sounds like a good solution if I get time to go back to analyse them more closely.

Answer 3

I'm happy to take a look. I noticed the first one has relatives that don't have the bio/source sections in the bio so will add them and source and then work backwards from there.

Comments

Thanks Michelle. Would be great if you could if you have time. I just wanted to get them on the radar so they would not be forgotten and I would avoid falling down a rabbit hole that could distract me from adding real Partners. Much appreciated.

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OK... looks like the first one isn't really Unkown "partner. His wife had been entered without bio/source section and without a birth or death date, so was an "open" profile. As soon as I sourced her and added the 1940 census, then added her birth year/place, she automatically changed from open to closed and her husband went from Unknown Partner (with no birth/death details) to "Unknown Fortner"

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Actually it probably said unknown Fortner to start with and I'm just word blind lol...well I sourced a couple of profiles in the process!

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If you search on Unknown Partner there are both Partner and Fortner that come up. The ones that are the potential problem are those that have LNAB Partner, rather than Fortner. I think the Fortner ones are more likely to be Fortners under further investigation. The Partners seem to include folks that may not have surname Partner but where a relationship in the name field has been imported from a gedcom.

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Yep you are right, I just didn't notice it said Fortner not Partner when I started looking into it!

the second one (Partner-6) I adopted and will change to Unknown Unknown, as it looks like an unknown father of an illegitimate child born several years after his mother's husband died..and unless there is a bastardy bond, it is unlikely the father's name will become known.

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I really appreciate your help here Michelle. While you have been trying to make sense of this mangled bunch of partners I have had time to add two real Partners with their spouses and cook my dinner :)

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Well, that is one messed up branch of the wiki-tree which I will need to go back to at some point and try to make it easier to read without all the gedcom garbage!

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I have a gut feeling that they could all be from the same gedcom import, and probably all unknown fathers of illegitimate children that have been imported as spouses of the mother.

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Ouch. I realised they were a potential mess when I took a quick squint, but didn’t go far enough into any of them to realise how bad.

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I've dealt with the ones that were adoptable - I'll contact the PMs of the other ones tomorrow

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Great. Thanks a lot.