This has to be a GEDCOM upload problem. It is very weird though.

Question

I have just worked on about 28 profiles with the same last name. I didn't correct the last one so you could see the problem I'm trying to describe. Every profile had no data but one child. The child had no other parent. They were all from about 1600 and France. The bio said the GedCom couldn't be interpreted.  

All of these were abandoned profiles. They were all pairs - one parent and a kid except one single that I merged away.

Ive been seeing this in the orphaned profiles recently but not this bad. I put approximate date and place (correct if you disagree).

Dealing with this is very time consuming   In the event this is a new download issue, it would be great if we could fix it before we get more of this particular mess.

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Well duh!!!

This reminds me of when I moved to Frankfurt and wondered why they named so many streets Eisenbahnstrasse!!

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you can close the question, the original profile this was linked to has been merged away, Ancêtre is the French word for Ancestor, not a name.  Somebody's placeholder.  duh

Answer 1

This seems to be basically OK from the daughter. There is a family of descenddants.

The point about the actual profile you link to is that it is not a person. Vinante ancetre simply means a Vinante ancestor, who is unknown. We could all put that in for everyone where there is no known father or mother.

Profiles like this do need to be removed.

I note there are 134 ancetre profiles on WT. If they are all like this they all need to go. It sounds like a French FH program that does this automatically.

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Not necessarily. Some people choose to give the nickname "Ancêtre" to their most remote ancestors, just like some create profiles for "Unknown Spouse of X" or "Unknown father of Y".

There is another "family" like Ancetre, it is "Collineau de Montaguerre".

However, it does not matter if the computer or the human is responsible, we're still left with these profiles and must find something to do about them...