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From: Paula Goodfellow <>
Subject: Re: [LDS-WC] Company's Coming .....
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:27:52 -0700
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I have a lot of scandinavian ancestors and one other big problem is
that many of them were combined erroneously in Ancestral File. Those
can only be separated by contacting the help folks, and some of mine
are still partially erroneously combined despite numerous
conversations with the help desk. On those, I've just decided to give
up for awhile. Paula
On Jun 14, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Jill N. Crandell wrote:

> Karen wrote:
> Has anyone with Scandinavian descent figured out what we can do with
> duplicate names when there isn't enough information in the matches
> that show
> up to have a realistic clue as to whether they really ARE duplicates
> or not?
>
> Some have so little information, it's hard to know if they were
> intended to
> be "mine" or somebody else's match.
>
> Karen,
> As mentioned by Jorge, the first thing would be to contact the
> submitter and
> see if you can determine from their records if they are talking
> about the
> same person. Frequently, the vague/incomplete information is coming
> from a
> temple submission. If that is the case, I would find the entry in
> the IGI
> and see if it was patron submitted or if there is a microfilmed
> record it is
> coming from. If it is a record source, go to the film and determine
> like you
> would in research, if it is the same person. If it is coming from an
> old
> temple recorder's book, I would recommend having someone take a look
> at that
> record for you. Frequently, there is a proxy name with their
> relationship to
> the person for whom they are doing the work. That would also let you
> know
> more about the identity of the person. I have merged some identities
> that
> nobody would merge, except that I have seen the recorder's book, and
> the
> proxy and relationship information that was not extracted into the
> IGI makes
> it clear who the person was.
>
> Unfortunately, none of these solutions is easy. Cleaning up nFS is
> going to
> take some time and effort. I wish for us all . . . great
> patience! :-)
>
> Enjoy your Sabbath,
> Jill Crandell
>
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