How to enter profile if unsure if it is correct

Question

Sutton-2844 and Sutton-2838 are possibly/probably the same person, but I have no direct evidence.  I entered them as separate people into my family tree programme, due to the uncertainties, with relevant uncertainties documented..

Richard Sutton-2839 had several children, 4 of them girls (though another baptism may not have been recorded?)

2 girls died in infancy, a 3rd possibly survived to marry Rowed/Rowil-2, the 4th married late in life, leaving bequests to presumed daughters of Rowil-2.

Catherine Rowil-1 and Jane Rowed-1 were the joint main beneficiaries of Sutton-2840 -  I think that they were probably siblings, as yet no definite proof found.

As you can see, there is a lot of uncertainty, but  I am wondering what to do.

Should I merge the 2 Sutton girls or should I leave them as 2 individuals?

Should I break the connection with this Sutton family as mother of the 2 girls, Rowil-1 and Rowed-1?  This would then leave Richard Sutton-2839 with his family correct, but with no connection to the family as it appears at present.

Should I change the LNAB of one of the Rowed/Rowil girls, if I think that they were sisters? (LNAB probably Rowed for both of them, no other references for Rowil found)

I have my own way of doing things with my family tree, but realise this may not conform to Wikitree standards, usually only happens towards the end of a particular line, giving clues as to further research.  The only thing is, parish records are not the best kept at this time, further research may not prove or disprove a connection.  Many marriages went unrecorded and a few baptisms as well.

Margaret

Comments

Hi Margaret Wilkinson,

Suspect all of us have a little of our own way about these things.

Personally, I found it was pretty easy for my wanna-be relationships to grow and grow if I didn't come up with a way of sizing up my information and sources before I added the links.

I research at the family group level (great minds think alike--looks like you do too), so I often found myself in about the same place you seem to be. Ala, I had identified an ancestor's parent(s), but had yet to find enough information to place all the siblings. That part usually took me a while, sometimes a long while.

In my desktop software, I used these crazy tags called "Who's this?" to link between siblings and/or parents without creating a link. Over time, I found research notes to be just as effective.   

On WikiTree, I've discovered free-space pages and believe these can be used to pull profiles and the notes together.

I'm suggesting you could keep the profiles separate and unlinked, and then web the individual profiles together with links to and from the free-space page. The free-space page could be home to your work in process research notes about the family unit.

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Thanks for that, I'll have an experiment with free space profile, not fully conversant with their uses yet.

Margaret

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Excellent suggestion