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Colonel John Crawford - Untangling the Crawford mess

Started by Alex Bonnett on Friday, September 27, 2019
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  • Col. John Crawford
    Geni member
  • Source: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-512280931-1-506887/mary-mcbride-born-chenoweth-in-myheritage-family-trees?indId=externalindividual-5095c3735a791cf04b5f7c6636134b0c&mrid=4d66b1b3659fe77d538483c44da00acf
    Mary McBride
    Geni member
  • Mary Crawford
    Geni member
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Alex Bonnett PRO
9/27/2019 at 10:46 AM

I created this profile based on the information on pg 22 of this http://sherrysharp.com/gentree/documents/James%20and%20Mary%20Crawf...

The following profiles share the dates and locations and would appear to be the same person.
Col. John Crawford
Col. John Crawford

Unfortunately, neither of them line up correctly with the information I have seen relating to that man. I'm tagging the managers of both profiles for visibility and if anyone has information of this family that they would like to share please feel free to do so. If you don't want to receive any more notification for this just press the "Unfollow" button located at the top of the discussion.
David K. Brown, Private User, Private User, Private User, Rev. Kenneth Lindsay Schaub, Kent Helton, Private User, Pamela Suhre, Private User, Keli Rae McMillen, Private User, Private User, Jeff Alan Whitehead, Gibson 'Gibby' Brack, Tina King Bundy, Erica Howton.
Erica Howton C
9/27/2019 at 4:14 PM

Crawford’s are many & murky. I added a list of children to the profile for Col. John d 1748. Here’s a discussion thread with books mentioned that may help: https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=5322&...

I would sort Geni through the children.
Erica Howton C
9/27/2019 at 4:24 PM

Here’s another tree Col. John Crawford

With a nice citation.

Tagging Private User
Alex Bonnett PRO
9/30/2019 at 6:02 AM

Private User I know you are just trying to help but I really did not want to merge this profile or his children yet... hence the discussion and the tagging of every single profile manager.
Alex Bonnett PRO
9/30/2019 at 6:30 AM

I disconnected Mary McBride from Col. John Crawford. I was looking through that ancestry thread and the Sherry Sharp website and saw that she eventually came to the same conclusion that the Mary Crawford married to McBride wasn't the same as the one that was the daughter of John Crawford.

http://sherrysharp.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I32597&...

Private User
9/30/2019 at 7:09 AM

Alex Bonnett, I wasn't just trying to help, that's just how Geni works. I manage other parts of the Crawford tree and this was probably just part of a merge I was doing. If you didn't want them merged, you probably should have made them private, or put a note in one of the fields that would display when doing a merge. There was really no reason for me to question it.
Alex Bonnett PRO
9/30/2019 at 7:19 AM

That's not "just how Geni works." You merged some profiles without first checking to make sure all the t's were crossed and the i's dotted. There are consistency issues surrounding these profiles that should have been sorted out to the best of our abilities BEFORE merging them.
Erica Howton C
1/20/2020 at 12:17 AM

Alex Bonnett

See discussion: https://www.geni.com/discussions/207048?msg=1359622

The extra children have been detached and relationships locked on Mary Crawford & Col. James Crawford.

Thank you for your efforts and patience.

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