Problem with Sarah Austin

=== GEDCOM Source ===
@R-1399799674@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=46029016&amp...

Smart Matches like Michael and Narcissa

Changes at FS
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/changelog/KCQH-6BW

Yeah, I reviewed those. I wish there was some sort of documentation linking Sarah to a parent such as a will or soething. Can't find that.

Sometimes I think that Smart Matches just parrots what is on Geni or Family Search whether it is right or wrong. I know I have seen that happen. Sometimes it takes a long time to cycle bad matches out.

I find that looking at the CHANGES at FS can be helpful

Yeah, me too. I even pull each source up to see how they work. They don't always match and through many profiles off. Worked on a FS profile last night that had a bad merge and all sources co-mingled. One person in Halifax and one in Brunswick. Can't get things straight here sometimes until you get things straight there and same with FAG.

But a 'source' really shouldn't be another family tree, but should be the actual source that is used to prove the information. Many family trees online are incorrect.

Linda L Bucher it isn't. It is a clue.
Like anything else.

Linda L Bucher I use Family Search for Sources only. Most of the time, I spend a lot of time fixing things on "trees" or profiles over there that are wrongly attached.

Their trees can provide clues as Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087 said, just as the Smart Matches can, but no reason to think one should rely on them as factual since people will attach anything to anyone, just the same with Ancestry, My Heritage, Geni, or any platform. It takes some real reading and dissection a lot of the time.

Hi Susanne,
I agree with what you are saying. As Cynthia said, clues are a wonderful direction to pursue. We should not use them to link to an individual without proper documentation.

So many times extended families had multiple common given names and have been attached to the wrong family because every child wanted to name one of their children in honor of a father or grandfather. In addition, I've even found some families that have named multiple children the same name as of an earlier deceased child, although the last is primarily in Europe.

I too spend time at FS un-linking and re-linking, but only when I have the paper documents to verify lineages. I've found many discrepancies in Ancestry too and even on the DAR website I've found errors.

We are all searchers and we can all make errors.

One of the surest ways to find common ancestors is with DNA matching and triangulation.

Still unsure of what to do with Sarah Austin. I inherited the profile and for what it is worth would probably bet that the info for parents is not correct based on past experience with so many of these inherited profiles, but I will see what I can try to figure out one day.

Anyone with any information, please chime in.

None of the parents attached to Sarah made sense according to anything I could find. Made an executirve decision and detached. Gedcoms are not sources as people cannot read them easily that I can figure out. Added the family search profile links and it does have some sources post marriage.

Done.

Private User comanages Sarah Austin with you. Is she active?

Maybe this needs UNmerged?: https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=80349159150

I think the profile has changed from who it originally was.

She was not active when I tried to connect and posted. I think there may have been two or three Sarah Austins. One did marry William Eason. Just not sure at this point of her parents so I disconnected and if someone has information, they can connect back later. I could find nothing on the Sarah who married William Eason.

Susanne Floyd I would ask for multiple UNmerges and take her back to the start.
She's conflated.
No idea who she was when the Geni user added her but she is not anymore.

I think you are right. I have had a death in family this weekend and traveling this week so will catch it next week to see what links we can get her back to. Thanks Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087 for trying to help. I appreciate it. :-)

Most welcome