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Thanks again for watching this video. I'm Devin Noelvi with
search? If you do, go ahead and leave your questions in the
that occasionally throughout some of the historic profiles
when they didn't know the name of the mother. So, you'll find
floating around on the screen now for the next video that you
Rhoda Kelly. That was just a holder people used in the past
be watching it on screen right now as I'm talking. I'm going
little while. So, go ahead and repeat the process. You should
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then when all said and done, we'll have a profile that
for you to hop over to your our blog. You'll see some of the
know where does she live in nineteen hundreds. So, let's go
information now that information came from the 1900
just missus Winfield is going to be floating around in space
going to survive. Tell people why you thought it was and look
profile that looks something like this. Birdie now has two
first. Then, they merging this person into the profile that is
don't skip that box. Take the name in the PID of the person
sets of parents but really, Birdie has one father with two
the finish merge and in just a few moments, you'll have the
different mothers and those two different mothers are really
at statement that I came up with. Does it make sense? Click
and now we get to the box that everyone wants to skip. Please
keep watching in this profile I'm going to reject the January
that all of the sources from both profiles are going to be
if you truly feel you have to individuals that need to merge
in FamilySearch. Now, in this page, we can see that we have
going to keep and decide what of her information we're going
go ahead and add this family over there. Otherwise, they're
merged in to the other profile and put their name in PID
slides over and it will be in the final profile that we have
by ID number because as you just saw, nothing came up for
to migrate over to the profile that's going to survive in the
we're going to keep. Now, we're going to go through the data
and we'll forget to merge her if we don't bring her over now
that's going to be eliminated so to speak that's going to be
birdie as a possible duplicate but we know that there was one
kept in the final profile. So, go ahead and click new merge
end. Now, don't worry if you think make a mistake there will
that there's two sets of parents and really it's just
the first thing we're going to do is we're going to merge
she should be and we're going to paste it right here in merge
be writing these numbers down in a book anywhere. The only
screen. We have to do that in a second step but we're going to
than she is how are we going to change the age of Birdie and
information because that is vital to future research to
1870 date, but I'm going to add that it's 1900 residents
that you copied from the birdie that was 20 years older than
typed it eighteen seventy rather than eighteen ninety. We
what are we going to do about missus Winfield Underwood well
first child was born in 1888 and then we come to birdie.
they would be inaccurate to say that Birdie is 20 years older
points or the entry information for the birdie that we're not
got a mistake and if somebody decided this is their source
like the nine for birdie? Yeah, but the indexer either made a
missus Winfield Underwood because she really is that
any. Let's go ahead and show you how I do that now. Now,
the same person so we can redo this process once again for
time they really come in handy and useful is when you're doing
and then at the bottom of the screen, you're going to see
census that birdie was found in. I do want to keep that
one father with two wives and we're going to go ahead and
be a way to undo it but that's a topic for another video but
accurate source. Now, it's time to actually dive into the
the door. We don't know who the informant is but that's a topic
Well, that kind of looks like eighteen seventy but in your
enumerators gave us the month the ancestors said that they
reason statements here on the Family History Fanatics channel
moment to take a look and make a guess. We also scroll down a
mistake and types eighteen seventy or wasn't sure and
his wife in that home in order from oldest to youngest but
that they didn't do it. So, how do we know this was the
zoom in to the census record, you can see the household
record. Just look at some clues because Winfield and Rhoda and
ahead and press add. It'll slide over. Isn't that cool? It
that the census recorder the census was supposed to list the
for another video but it let's just take the record for what
have the birdie we're going to keep and on the right side, we
then we see 1892 and doesn't that nine look an awful lot
merge missus Winfield Underwood later. We can't do that on this
listed. You can see that in the nineteen00 census, the
child? Yeah, what do you think is going on? I'll give you a
post about writing reason statements over on the Family
other children now something to know about the 1900 census is
that survives once this merge is finished. Next, you will see
little bit further and we see that somebody who attached this
click on birdie, the one that we want to keep, then come over
record did not leave a reason statement. Now, I have blog
here and click on possible duplicate and now, when Family
household for the children of the head of the household and
or she wrote a and then we have Logan Birdie and a number of
Logan, that's the right family what's going on. Now, as we
minute and click on possible duplicates. You might not find
the personal identification number. Now, you don't need to
two profiles side by side. On the left side of the screen, we
what do you notice Birdie is 30 years old and is not the oldest
have the birdie that we're going to merge into the one
Family structure we have Winfield with that asteric in
sources. So, be sure to check the description for a link to
in a previous video. It is one we have already discovered that
ahead and take a look at the extracted information from that
then merge her with Winfield and connect her with Rhoda and
Search comes to this page, you're going to take that PID
History Fanatics about what you should do with Legacy NFS
image that census record and quickly we can see this index
to the image and you will see the family structure in this
Birdie from the missus Winfield Underwood profile family into
merging because if we use it later, I'll show you in a
the other birdie to do that we have to copy this PID number,
his name because it was difficult to read his name on
Underwood profile and when you come here, you will quickly see
it is and we have this household and notice the years
were born as well as the year. Now, we don't know who answered
description below and we've also mentioned about writing
order, it looks like eighteen 90. Go to the next entry and
beside Rhoda and the children. Rhoda's birth year is 1871. The
History Fanatics blog. I'll link to those in the
the census record so the indexer did the best he could
legacy source and we have a previous video on Family
that video. Before we jump into the actual image. Let's go
that there are two sources for this birdie underwood, a 1900
to the sources, let's go to the actual profile of the second
birdie. The one that's attached to the missus Winfield
that's a big difference but the biggest problem is that
birdie born in eighteen seventy. We got a problem and
senses that will have the W Aster Winfield we talked about
applies to Winfield's Family with Rhoda Kelly. We also see a
we need to go to what? Sources to figure it out. Before we hop
Winfield would have been thirteen when he fathered the
of this video, you can decide if Emmett Bert and Albert are
but the biggest difference is this child was born in 18
seventy while the other was born in eighteen ninety. Wow,
Winfield Underwood. No one knew what her name was and they had
a child named Birdie Underwood. Sound familiar? It sure does
just focus on Birdie. If you scroll down a little bit
further, you're going to see Winfield is to a missus
the same individuals and if they should be merged but let's
Well, we're going to focus on Birdie and hopefully at the end
about in this clue when and we're also going to decide
is just the first wife and she needs to be emerged. On this
whether Birdie is the child of the second wife or if the wife
family tree, we have a birdie and Emmett Bert and an Albert.
research over my shoulders series, you're going to know
again. In this case, we're going to talk about the
possibility of him having that second wife like we talked
merged together. If you've previously joined us in the
ancestors all up and down our branches. Well, what the
that I'm picking on the Winfield Underwood family once
instance instances of the same individual and they need to be
difficulty in that is sometimes in FamilySearch, there's
Fanatics where we try to help you learn how to climb your
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