Someone added the wrong grandparents to my profile, how do I correct it

Question

Someone added the wrong grandparents to my profile.  How do I correct this a d stop it from happening again. You would think they would ask me before adding anything to my profile.

Comments

Create profiles for your grandparents.  Add every source you can possible find.  Add an annotation that explains why they're the correct grandparents.  Add them as parents to your parents.  No big deal--you can fix it.  However, at the same time, I would try to add sources to the wrong grandparents and annotations to note why they are incorrect.  That way everything should be clear to everyone.

Answer 1

Richard, first of all, there is no such thing here as "my profile", other than the one for you (LaBerge-319).  Everyone shares all the profiles here - we are all related on the single world tree, and the 2 million plus profiles on WikiTree belong to all the members.

As to your profile - the one for you - it does not have grandparents - it only has connections to your parents, siblings, spouse(s), and children.  Your grandparents become your grandparents here when they are connected to your father and/or mother as their parents.

I checked and see that you connected yourself to your father in December 2018.  I also saw that the same person is manager of the profiles for your father and his parents, who were added and connected to your father also last  December.  It is entirely likely that member knew nothing of your existence when adding your father's parents.  She also provided a source that supports these people being your father's parents.  When you discovered the profile you identified as your father here and connected yourself to it, perhaps you should have written to the manager to let her know that you're here - the two of you could be working well together on your family and she may be a cousin of yours - wouldn't you be interested in getting in touch with her?

The other possibility is that there was a different person with the same name as your father and that is the one who has those parents, but only communication with the other profile manager is likely to result in knowing everything about the situation.
 

I would recommend that you write to her now and discuss your parents and grandparents with her - it could greatly benefit you both to get to the bottom of it all.  This is what is meant by the item in our honor code that starts by saying "we collaborate".

Answer 2

They wouldn't have added these people to your profile.  They would have added them as parents to your parents.

Answer 3

When you go in to edit a profile, you have the option on the right hand side, under the family member's name, to replace or remove the family member. Good luck!

Answer 4

I think you guys are being a little harsh.  Apparently Richard in a newcomer, and if I go to his profile and click on "ancestors" I see grandparents.  So I don't blame him for saying someone added grandparents to his profile.  That is a pretty close relationship.  

Yes, I agree his next step should be to contact the person who added them and try to resolve the differences.

Comments

Julie, I was not being harsh, nor was Ros or E - only explaining how WikiTree works, since Richard apparently does not understand, and jumped to an incorrect conclusion that "someone added the wrong grandparents" to his profile.

If you check the change pages for his profile, you will see that he connected himself to his father, which is how his father's parents came to appear as his grandparents.  If those are not his grandparents then the person he connected as his father is not his father because there is a very good source for his father being the child of those grandparents in question.

We are all aware that newcomers tend to make mistakes - in fact, oldtimers also make mistakes, although perhaps not as many - it's the way we have of knowing that we are human!  What we're trying to do is to provide the information about how WikiTree works, as well as how it doesn't work.  Soon, when he becomes an old-timer, he'll be doing the same for the newcomers … that is, IF we all help him to reach that point of comfort!

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Yes, I see that there is one source (a link) to connect the father to the grandparents.  A simple Ancestry search reveals dozens of possible records for both the father Rene and the grandfather Emilien.  

Also, looking at the profile of the person who connected Rene to Emilien, I don't see any close connection to the family.

So I wonder if any of us have done sufficient research to be sure whether we are right about what is happening here.

Sorry if I seem overly argumentative.  It's just in my nature.

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Since I knew my parents and spent a lot of time with my grandparents,  I know I'm right.  Someone else made a mistake and I  am trying to correct it.

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Richard, according to the site used as a source for the "wrong" grandparents, your father was married to Roseanne-Lily Tessier and you have a brother Gerard.

But your profile indicates your mother was Simone Despault. Do you have a brother Gerard?

Is it possible there was another Rene LaBerge not your father but someone else with same name?

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No, my brothers name is Rene D LaBerge

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Richard,

This suggests that Gaile, above, might be right-- that you've attached your profile to a man who had the same name as your father but was in fact a different person. Is that possible?

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Jillaine that must be what happened but  didn't attach another mother so I don't know how it happened and I'm trying to correct it.  I reached out to the person that added the incorrect info.

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Richard, I *think* what you need to do  is detach the profile currently linked as your father as that profile appears to represent a different man by the same name.  Then create a new father for yourself. That's what I'd do.

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Thank you after things slow down here I'll do that.