Georgia: Since you've already entered all the data, and since there's a chance these people are related to your husband's grandmother in some way, I would *unlink* your husband's grandmother from the false parents rather than deleting them. This would preserve the source citations and events you've already entered for them and also maintain links from the false parents to their other children. The parents and other children will remain in your database as a separate tree or small family group and you can find them any time from View > Tree Finder. (Click the Refresh button each time you use this handy tool.) If you discover the true relationship later, it will be a simple matter to reattach the family group properly. Of course, you'd also want to add plenty of notes in your database about the discrepancy.
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: Georgia [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 5:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Wrong Family I have been away from the list for a long time so please forgive me if I am off kilter for a while. My question is part general genealogy but also part Legacy. My husband's grandmother immigrated to Hawaii on false papers. I had already entered all the information contained in the huge NARA immigration file which I now find is erroneous. A recently uncovered interview with one of her daughters reveals her true name, her father's true name and the existence of siblings (but no names). So my question is, in Legacy, what do I do with the people (siblings and parents) who were attached to her but which I now know are not her relatives (or possibly quite distant relatives)? I have never had to unlink someone and I'm somewhat nervous. Where do the unlinked ones go? Can I just delete them and give her new parents? Many thanks, Georgia Chun Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
