So I was going over some of the profiles I made last year of the Bodkin families of Galway, Ireland and noticed two things:
One, there is this lineage of people where the estimated dates don't make any sense logically.
Two, the webpage that I pulled the lineage from no longer exists, so there's no way to double check what it said.
I unfortunately found out both of these things at the end of the line instead of where I started editing.
I started at the most ancient person who had an estimated birth date, and started entering estimated birth dates for her descendants based on the average gap between generations (about 20 to 30 years). This quickly became a problem.
Before the edits I made today, all of the profiles in between [Athy-25|Susannah Athy, wife of Patrick Bodkin] and her (supposed) descendant, [Bodkin-537|Robert Bodkin, who married Elizabeth Butler], had no birth dates and had death dates that said "died after 1700" or "died after 1680" or something similar, as you can see yourselves by checking the changes sections.
Susannah Athy is said to have been born about 1638. Robert Bodkin, who was supposedly her great great great grandson according to the defunct website, was born in 1680, so when Susannah was about 40 years old.
Robert is said to have been married to Elizabeth Butler on 30 Jul 1716 and died about 1725.
But again, the source I created this with ages ago no longer exists.
I really want to make this right, and have WikiTree be as accurate as possible.
My first thought now is to detach all the parents and children, so that only the married couples are still connected to each other. What do you all think about doing that?
My second thought is, since I now really have no idea when all these couples were even alive save for a few, how do I edit them?
