Please could a curator kindly help

Private User

4/28/2025 at 1:28 PM

Re: https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000217234232821

The entry for Thomas Thomas appears twice but he is the same person. He had two wives, Elizabeth (Tucker) Thomas, with whom he had a daughter Maria Thomas, and a second later wife, called Fanny (Jennings) Thomas, with whom he had a daughter Susan Drusilla Thomas.

The daughters Maria and Susan, appear to have had a daughter (Elizabeth Tucker (Watts) Seccombe) and a son (John Edgar Seccombe) respectively (Thomas Thomas father of both), and confusingly these first cousins seem to have married! Their son Arthur Allen Seccombe is my great great grandfather. It has taken us a very long time to find any trail of this side of my mother's father's family, and I'm wondering if the fact the that first cousins married might be what has made it difficult to trace? There is evidence of the history here:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Seccombe-82

Please please could you merge Thomas Thomas's duplicate to show he had two wives, a daughter with each, and link them as described? I have tried everything from deleting to merging and starting all over again only to find duplicates appearing all over the place which is very confusing.

Many many thanks in advance,

Best wishes,

Ayse Aylin Ergeneli

Private User

4/28/2025 at 10:24 PM

Duplicates merged and data conflicts solved.

Private User

4/29/2025 at 6:39 AM

Dear Bo-Arrne,

Thank you so much for the quick response, and for clearing duplicates. I see the duplicate for Thomas Thomas is still there and means his tree will appear twice side by side from now on - is this correct? Would there be a way to just put him in the middle of his two wives, Elizabeth (Tucker) Thomas and Fanny (Jennings) Thomas, so he is on the tree just once?

Best wishes and thank you again for you time,

Ayse

Private User

4/29/2025 at 1:03 PM

There is only one profile for Thomas but the same profile is displayed both in the branch with Fanny and in the branch with Susan. So from your branch you will se a x2 and if you click the x2 you swich between the two branches.

Use this link to see him with both wives in his own branch:
https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000218107438824

Private User

4/30/2025 at 4:25 AM

Thank you so much. That's clear now, and that link to his own branch is really helpful - can now add on his ancestors. Really appreciate your time.

Private User

5/4/2025 at 7:08 AM

Dear Bo-Arne,

In the Thomas Thomas tree

https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000218107438824

in the link you kindly provided, Arthur Allen Seccombe appears twice. In the left branch he has one wife and in the right branch he has 2. Is there any way to make him appear only once in Thomas Thomas' tree and show him with both wives?

Thank you

Private User

5/4/2025 at 12:06 PM

No.
To avoid the x2 in the display you have to go to his own branch:
https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000217234232821

Private User

5/5/2025 at 6:12 AM

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