HELP, PLEASE!!!! Entered some profiles, and totally screwed up

Started by Private User on Monday, March 11, 2019
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Tree presentation for Mendel Rochenson and wife Minna Rochenson (Katz) is totally screwed up, and I can't fix. Mendel's sibs are Golda Esther Westelman (Rochenson) and Chasia (Katie) Treistman (Rochenson). Chasia's husband is Kalmer Treistman. Chasia and Kalman child is Abraham Treistman, married to Sarah Treistman., Abraham and Sarah child is Solomon Treistman married to unknown, Solomon and unknown child is Avi Treistman. The tree shows the Treistman's I think twice, once correctly as descrribed, and once as parental to Mendal Rochenson and Minna Rochenson and Minna's sibs Zev Wolf Jankawitch and Hershel Lublinski, the same Mendal and Minna already described I caused problem to be far worse by trying to fix it by moving and matching duplicates (using move box and then duplicates popup). Problem hinges on fact that I earlier had entered the name Ravi Placeholder Thriceman as a son of Zev Wolf Jankawitch. to serve as a placeholder for the real Avi Treistman so I could invite him into the tree until we figured out exactly how he related.
I placed this placeholder profile box as a son of Zev Wolf Jankawitch, brother of Minna Rochenson (Katz), previously identified. So Avi now has an account on Geni as Ravi Placeholder Thriceman using the email address Avi@treistman.com, which email address now belongs on the profile of Avi Treistman, and Ravi Placeholder Thriceman should be deleted. I did all this because we didn't yet know where he fit on the tree, so created the placeholder till he could look at the tree and help me figure out where he belonged, which we now have done as described in the second sentence above. HELP, PLEASE!!!!

Think I may have this mostly fixed. I think main remaining problem is that I have 2 sets of parents for Sarah Treistman (don't know maiden name), wife of Abraham Treistman, the second set being husband Abraham's parents, and can't get rid of this second set relating to her (I of course still want them relating to Abraham). I tried the yellow triangle at bottom left of Sarah's profile box and got the duplication popup, but none of the 3 parents shown are duplicates, one is her father profile I created and named "? ?" (don't know his name), the other two are husband Abraham's father and mother, none of the 3 are duplicates. Then I try "assign parents" and place a check mark at the bottom to remove Abraham's father and mother from Sarah's profile, but get a popup saying I'll be splitting the tree, and won't let me proceed. When I click the small green-boxed "2" at top center of Sarah's box in the tree, I get a choice of selecting ?? or Abraham's parents, I select "? ?", so the tree now shows things properly, the parental line from Abraham's parents running down to him rather than to Sarah, but Sarah's profile box in the tree still shows the yellow triangle, no way I can see to get rid of it, or more importantly get rid of the yellow triangle duplication warning. HELP, PLEASE!!

Think I may have this mostly fixed, but apparently main remaining problem is that I have 3 parents for Sarah Treistman (don't know Sarah's maiden name), wife of Abraham Treistman, one being a father I created a box for named "? ?" (don't know his name), the second two being husband Abraham's father and mother, and can't get rid of the latter her profile box says also are her parents (I of course still want them relating to Abraham, just not to Sarah). I tried the yellow triangle at bottom left of Sarah's profile box and got the duplication popup, but none of the 3 parents shown are duplicates, one is her father profile I created named "? ?" and the other two are husband Abraham's father and mother, none of the 3 are duplicates so I didn't drag any onto the other. Then I tried the "assign parents" link but when I try to place check mark on "? ?" rather than Abraham's [parents, I get a popup saying I'll be splitting the tree and won't let me proceed. When I click the small green-boxed "2" at top center of Sarah's box in the tree, I get a choice of selecting " ??" or Abraham's parents, so I selected "? ?" and the tree now indeed show the parental line running from Abraham's parents running down to abraham and not to Sarah, but Sarah's profile box in the tree still shows the yellow triangle duplication warning, no way I can see to get rid of it, and more importantly no way I can see to get rid of the underlying problem. HELP, PLEASE!!

OOPS, sorry for posting twice, don't know what happened there. Thought I was still editing. The second is worded more clearly so probably the one to concentrate on.

Ah ha, got it! Sorry for putting whomever through all the reading time. Always encouraging to know the Community is out there ready to help if all else fails ...

Private User Can you describe how you fixed this? (I think I know, but I’d rather your words.)

Thanks.

You know, I'm not exactly sure. i'm nearing 80, and detailed stuff that used to hang in mind for months (years even) now hides on me. I know it had to do with the Duplication popup box, but for the life of me I can't recall beyond that. Hell, I was so anxious to get the matter resolved that I wasn't even focusing on the trial and error steps along the way, just ultimately hit the right combination and binge, it straightened out. Thanks for asking, as written before, good to know there's a community out there willing to help with this stuff.

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