when you're working on family surge do you ever find a mistake in gender which makes it very
difficult to merge two people together howdy I'm definitely with family history fanatics if this is
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along the way in ginny illogical research mistakes happen but what happens when you discover that you
know what two individuals with the exact same name only modified slightly for gender really
are the same person and we need to fix them in our families tree for the ancestors from the paths in
the case of wind field Underwood subject of the research over my shoulders series for some time
now he had Ola Renta Duggan's and a Lorenzo Underwood hmm what's going on when we look
at the Renzo's profile you quickly see there's no sources attached what is going on we'll come back
to that in a second now let's go over and see if this Lorenza Duggan's is supposed to be with this
family when you look at her sources you do see the evidence that her maiden name was Underwood
the one tip that you have to pay attention to when you're putting families together and
identifying the names of individuals when it comes to women would you please just use their
maiden surnames and not their married name it creates a lot of confusion and some unsuspecting
or novice genealogists might have taken know in the Duggan's out of the family without a
second thought her maiden name discerning at the time of her birth was Underwood and that's
the one we need to use but what happens if you don't know what her maiden name is then lead
blank when you do switch her maid her surname from Duggan's to Underwood that triggers family search
to not only just look for hints for Duggan's it will also look for hints for Underwood now that
Lorenza Underwood is accurate it's time to try to figure out how did we come up with the Lorenzo
Underwood for this family well on family search you can be on a person's profile page a person
page and click family search and will take you to the search side of family search an away from the
tree side of the page so now that we're in the research results section you can see up at the
top that we're trying to look for Lorenzo and all of a sudden you see a census record so in
this case we see a Lauren's o Underwood now how do we know this is the right person and the right
family it could be somebody else entirely now if you've seen any of the research over my shoulder
series you know that Nancy's stayed behind with her children while her husband Hyrum and her son
Clinton and Winfield went to Grayson County Kentucky to prepare for the family to move
there so Nancy stays behind with a whole lot of children so the first thing we need to decide is
if this record for Lorenzo and all of this these siblings as well as a mother named Nancy it's our
family and sure enough we go back to the family search profile that I've been working on and
cleaning that we see all of the same siblings Julia and who else do we have flora and Eliza
and Henry so that matches this record is about Nancy and the children that stayed behind in
Kentucky Waller has been moved to Texas one of the things that you have to learn in genealogy
is we want to always go look at original records so now let's look at the original document just
like I said we need to look at the original record and figure out how the heck do we have a Lorenzo
but not a Lorenza take a look so enumerators are not perfect they often made copies of copies and
we never know who answered the door so in 1880 we have this family and we have a Lorenzo that
name is clearly Lorenzo whose gender is female but in the relationship to the household kahlan
Lorenzo is listed as a son that's what those diddle marks are all about the ditto marks is
for son not daughter so the indexer cannot be faulted they had to pick whether this female
named Lorenzo who's a son is really a mistaken gender should have been male or what it's the
child really what's female and the other two have messed up that's not for the indexer to make that
determination so the fault lights probably with the enumerator or the family getting things on
that stuff but here's the deal there is no other evidence that Nancy and her family had a Lorenzo
no but this is the only time Lorenza is not in the family yeah there was a mistake and
it's highly likely Lorenza is really the role of Renzo in this record and she was female so that
the gender was right even though it should have said Lorenzo a daughter okay we can make that
case because again this is 1880 how do we fix it in the familysearch family tree because again this
is a collaborative tree what we do affects what other people see well the first thing we need to
do is go to the Lorenzo profile because you cannot merge a male profile and a female profile family
search doesn't let you so you have to change Lorenzo Oh to Lorenza and you just change it
here with gender and of course even though I'm not doing it right now make a reason statement
talk about how that you believe that this record was inaccurate based on additional evidence that
there were words of Lorenza nada Lorenzo and she let's into adulthood from this family as we did
in a previous video with Bertie we'll simply merge Lorenza the chilla Renta's keeping the information
that is pertinent and leaving excluding the rest of the information that is unnecessary so there
you have it that's how you can merge a case of MIS identify gender for your ancestors in the past on
Family Search if you have any other questions on how to fix problems that you find on Family Search
be sure to put them in the comments below once again I'm definitely and this is family history
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