CONSANGUINITY Genealogy

Question

Hi was curious if there is a way to make note through a tag or alert or  similar to prevent people from disconnecting you from a tree OR at least acknowledging the fact that the genealogy work undertaken by the the profile manager is very difficult because of consanguin relationships  I have seen where I was disconnected from a main tree before because perhaps other profile owners didn’t a relative belonged?

Another question I have is I can see possible relationship sometimes through #GEDMATCH profiles but there is so little sourcing done or no other family members or very few mentioned.  I’m hesitant to use these with my family relationships being such a mess of closely related families?

Answer 1

Hi Doris, it is a good idea to explain any complicated research you've done by adding a Research Notes section to the person profile (see Help:Research_Notes). And if the person is frequently confused with a different person with the same or similar name, you can use the Easily Confused box to alert people (see Help:Easily_Confused). For example see this profile I worked on: Robichaud-2183.

You should also try to add as many sources as possible to the profile and explain the known facts about the person in the biography. This can really help avoid confusion and make it clear to others that the person has been researched.

I'm not sure that I understand your Gedmatch question. Are you saying that you see possible relationships on the Gedmatch website and the family trees shared there, or are you looking at the "DNA Connections" listed on WikiTree profiles? The DNA connections are based on existing relationships in the WikiTree global tree. 

Comments

Thanks for the reply. I know I’ve been here a while, I’m learning but I have a long way to go.

The initial question was because I had found some relatives disconnected from tree and my fault for not catching these things sooner. Some were likely months detached. I’ll be better at using the connection feature.

Back to the other point that I was trying to make, is that the families I’m currently adding/updating are a genealogy nightmare.  I get confused as hell researching and writing them, I just want to protect the work. I’ve got so much endogamy happening and I know that it would make people jump in and react.  I know it’s important to add more sources and I will.

I didn’t mean to say GEDMATCH, what I meant was the often seen incomplete GEDCOM files   They are an example of unsourced profiles and human entered profiles are often similar   I’ve asked a couple people today in comments of their profiles to so so I don’t create a new profile that should perhaps fit theirs  

Hopefully I can edit my post to remove my accidentally mentioning Gedmatch instead of Gedcom files

Answer 2

hello cousin, as Valerie pointed out, there are some tools to use when there is ambiguity.  Endogamy is a fact of life in early days of this province, you should see my tree, starts looking like a spaghetti bowl several generations back.  

Take your time connecting upwards, there are a whole lot of profiles already created from the 1750s back to 1600s.  Many are indeed products of Gedcom imports where data got lost.  Do your research case by case, and if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and generally acts like a duck, you are likely to have found the right one, a duck. 

Some families are more problematic than others, such as around Lotbinière area, there are Lemay galore there, and other families that intermarry with them a lot.  I recall one set I worked on where the husband and wife had identical names to another couple married a few years later in a nearby town.  Painstaking research identified the children belonging to each couple, the data got put on profiles so people could see who belonged where.  Not much more one can do.

Comments

Thanks so much for your reply. My great grandparents were Ayotte and Lafontaine and their tree immediately starts with cousins and moves up to the next generation of first cousins.  If they are looking down, I’m sure they are laughing while I attempt to input what I have researched. Very easy to make mistakes.

I want the profiles to be noticed and full of additions from others, I just hope people don’t disconnect us or write over what seems like a tangled mess.

I do have someone who enjoys doing edits on my work, she writes better profiles than me, maybe she can edit these in such a way that people understand the reason for the confusion.

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you can always ask for help here in G2G, there are a number of us with excellent sources to figure out who belongs where.