Can someone eye this profile and let me know if I am on the right track?

Question

Found this profile while DDing. Looked for marriage, fixed death date and then went for a deep dive. Have come across some problems. Adopted profile to give her LNAB. Wrong mother attached? Before I detach mom, and give lnab, would like some feedback. Plan to add correct parents maybe expand further.

Thanks

Terry

Answer 1

Unfortunately, I believe you have conflated two individuals. The original GEDCOM import indicates this is meant to be Lillie M  Bean, daughter of (Sebastian?) Streeter Bean and Betsy Bean (Bean may have been both her LNAB and her married name). She was born in 1878 and died unmarried in 1895 in Franklin County, Maine.

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF32-12B : 15 August 2017), Lillie M Bean in entry for S Streeter Bean, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 74, sheet 462C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 0479; FHL microfilm 1,254,479.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45391151

Comments

Name:	Lillie M Bean
Gender:	Female
Death Date:	29 Sep 1895
Death Place:	Jay, Franklin, Maine, USA
Father:	Strieter Bean
Mother:	Betsey

Source Citation

Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; 1892-1907 Vital Records; Roll Number: 3

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Maine, Death Records, 1761-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Original data: Maine Death Records, 1761-1922. Augusta, Maine: Maine State Archives. Maine Death Records, 1761-1922, Maine State Archives, Augusta, Maine, USA.

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LNAB of the mother may have been Russell. All of this would obviously require additional research, but since who you have turned her into isn't who she was intended to be, it would probably be best to remove the spouse and correct any other information you may have changed.

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I have to admit this gave me a chuckle this morning after I found the information I posted above. I cannot count the number of times I have fallen down a rabbit hole while sourcing or DDing only to discover after several hours of research that I had tumbled into the wrong rabbit hole. Darn rabbits! 

On the other hand, it's often given me the opportunity to improve more than one profile or improve one and create another.

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You wouldn't be the first and wouldn't be the last! Yes, darn those rabbits!

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Actually she was originally attached to husband and daughter, I did not change any of that. I found the profile because of the DD's marriage problem death before marriage. The dau is married and has a child as well. I worked from the fact she was married. Could the original gedcom have been wrong? Susan Turner had the wrong child attached? I changed up the census, so I could see the flow of things, but it was the original census info, I just made it more readable. So should it go back to the original? It will still be wrong as Betsey Russell Bean is not the mother, since her daughter never married and died in 1895. I can detach Lillie from Betsey and make a new profile for her daughter with the correct death info??? Only way to fix it??

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If I look back at the original import, the dates and first census are for Lillie M Bean, the daughter of Streeter and Betsey (Russell?} Bean.

This is what happens when people don't pay attention to their sources and start grabbing at straws.

Lillie, the daughter of Betsey died in 1895 unmarried. Those dates and her mother were correct, as was the first census (1880). Then it went off the rails with a husband and child that weren't hers. Whether the original error occurred because someone was trying to make Fred Bean's spouse fit somewhere, or because Fred Bean got attached to the wrong spouse in the first place we'll never know. The options are to revert to the original and detach Fred and the daughter (I recommend this because it does not involve an unnecessary change of LNAB), and remove all the sources that belong to Fred's spouse,and create a new spouse for Fred and mother for the daughter with the correct LNAB to begin with.

This will save a lot of wear and tear on the server by avoiding redirects from the name change when you can just as easily create a new spouse for Fred.

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Thanks Deb, that sounds like a good plan. I will get it done. I am hoping the next one I fix is easier! lol