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I could be wrong, but I don't think a Civil War soldier should be the third cousin once removed of a guy who was born in Brazil. I came across it as a data conflict for the Civil War profile.

Pvt. George W. Sandoe, (USA), 1st Union Soldier Killed at Gettysburg.

Conrado Antonio Bucker

Private User What makes it suspect is that he was a Union soldier. Over 10,000 Southerners fled with their slaves to southern Brazil as it became clear that they were losing.

https://www.history.com/news/confederacy-in-brazil-civil-war

Georg Conrad Beissel

These merges need to be undone and I have good documentation.

https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=67919333090

https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=67919333090

Conrad was never married. He was the founder of the Ephrata Cloister and they main members were celibate - "The Society declined after the death of the charismatic Beissel in 1768. The last celibate member died in 1813" https://ephratacloister.org/about/history/.

As for why these were merged, it's because Georg Konrad was also known as Johann, but he also had a brother named Johann, as stated in this Jstor article on page 27, 2nd paragraph. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41639994?read-now=1&refreqid=excel...

I didn't read these, but they might have more info, if you want to read it. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41640005?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/355794-the-...=

Erica Howton, I think you can answer/weigh in on this discussion

https://www.geni.com/discussions/242208?msg=1528171

I found and added some info on the noted profiles to make the distinguishing of the two Elizabeth's better, but I am still searching. The Commander/Screven lines of Berkeley/Georgetown are always messy. Not a lot of good research on them.

Georg Sebastian Beissel, is this not a brother?

https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000004018965407

Erica Howton Georg Conrad Beissel isn't supposed to have any spouse, but he's married to his brother and SIL and there is no relationship tab.

Also, if you could fix the all caps in his name, because it's causing a CC issue.

While cleaning up the Womacks, who had been left in a state of partial merge, I discovered that Richard Womack, III has two DAR sons named Abraham. They are clearly different people with different DAR numbers so the task is to associate them with the correct parents. Any help available?

Joseph Ayer is not supported by Methuen VR.

Part of a GEDCOM upload in 2019.

John Ayer was part of the same GEDCOM upload as Joseph. Also not supported by Methuen VR.

Anna Marie Meyer
her mother

Maria Barbara Beisel
her father

Johann Jacob Beisel

Erica Howton, can you unmerge this one profile please? I accidentally merged Sarah and Ruth and I'm in the middle of this big merge with a bad GEDCOM, so if you could do it I'll complete the merges. Thanks.

https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=81123783630

https://www.geni.com/discussions/242331?msg=1528875
Erica Howton, please see

I came across an unfinished merge and I'm not sure it was a good merge. At the very least, there wasn't enough information to determine if it should have been merged. According to the FS tree I found, it doesn't look like it was a good merge.

https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=81124147780

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GWK4-R2J

Erica Howton thank you for taking care of the issue in the curator discussion. It didn't have to be that complicated and that's why I don't usually insert myself into someone else's post. I really appreciate you coming to the rescue and resolving it.

Thank you, Erica Howton

Francis Collins, Sr. needs more help than I'm able to provide. It looks like it was altered a really long time ago and it has just snowballed since then.

He has two wives with similar names Mary Budd and Mary Collins

The 2nd wife listed above started out as Budd, but is now attached to parents with the last name of Savery.

Sarah Collins was the first wife of Francis. She seems to be correct, except for one daughter that doesn't belong - Jane Shinn Sarah died shortly after they moved and left him with 6 children, so I'm sure he remarried.

Page 80 lists the 2nd wife of Francis as Mary, widow of John Goslin, daughter of Thomas Budd.

There is also a merge for Francis https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000003655706336?return=dupli...

Erica Howton this MP was disconnected from his entire family, even though he has info in his bio and DAR record confirming wife and children.

Col. Valentine Crawford

Please unmerge (conflicting parentage).

https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=80013316360

Thank you for everything, Erica.