have you ever come across an individual and FamilySearch and thought they don't
belong at this family and wondered what you do about it but today's your lucky
day we're gonna talk about that next
howdy I'm Devon Noel Lee and this is family
history fanatics where we hope to educate you on how to climb your family
tree further faster and have a whole lot more fun along the way today we're gonna
talk about what do you do when you think kind of a relative is in the wrong
family the first thing you need to do is come with up with a case you can't just
take people out of families willy-nilly without a solid reason now we have a
series called research over my shoulder and this is the last video that we're
going to do on Winfield Underwood's family in this case Winfield might have
a brother honey might not so when we go through
each of his siblings you're going to notice a trend the siblings were born in
Kentucky and most specifically they're usually born in Taylor County Kentucky
the other thing you're going to notice is almost all of them migrated West they
went to Texas but when you come to this one General Thomas Underwood he doesn't
go west unless he came back but the question is is general in the wrong
family now general has sources and these are great sources but they don't help me
know for sure if he's with the wrong family so what I'm going to do is click
on the family search quick link to go to search for records about general when I
come to the records results page the first result I see is for a bill and a
mahalia or mahalia not exactly sure how to say that woman's first name but it's
not Hiram Underwood and Nancy Gaddy it's somebody completely
different well you might say okay just keep scrolling Navy hyerim and Nancy
will show up a little bit later well I'm scrolling and I'm scrolling and
I'm not seeing Hiram and Nancy associated with General Thomas or any
Thomas for that matter I do consistently see a william and i'm mahalia or other
individuals entirely in this cursory look I'm pretty confident that we have
general in the wrong family kind of fast forward a little bit I've done a lot of
research on Winfield Underwood's family and I've never come across a General
Thomas I have come across a General Logan now could you have two children
named general with their middle names being different certainly but I don't
think that's the case in genealogy you have to realize that anyone can make
mistakes but considering the evidence we have at this time and the fact that this
is a quick video on YouTube what do you do to get General Thomas out of Hyrum
and Nancy's family well you need to bake break their relationship
you can't break the relationship on the left side where he is with his wife and
his children you have to break the old relationship over here on the right
where he is a son of Hyrum and Nancy Underwood so click on this edit link
once you're there you can click on this link here and then it will ask you are
you sure you want to do this and make sure you click the right relationship
that you're trying to break and once again it will ask you because this is
family search for a reason why you are making this change be sure to fill it
out you need to remind yourself and tell others why you don't think General
Thomas belongs in Hyrum and Nancy's family once you click the final blue
button you will be taken to profile that looks like this and now
General Thomas has no parents but there is strong case being made that he does
and it's time for you to go do research which is beyond the scope of this video
it really is simple to break relationships but should you yes if you
can make a case that an individual is connected to the wrong family
if you can't in you're still a little doubtful then jus more research and show
you're certain and if you don't know even after doing additional research let
things go and leave a discussion question of hey I don't think this is
right what does anybody else you know but you know what the best thing about a
collaborative trees such as family search if you make a mistake it can be
undone and we'll save that for a future video if you need it if you think you
might want that video you definitely need to drop me a line in the comments
and say be sure to tell me how did you that so I'm definitely this is family
history fanatics in the next episode of research over my shoulder we will start
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