User talk:LadyBear

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Detwiler/Alter [11 October 2016] (copied from User talk:Gayel Knott) [11 October 2016]

Detwiler/Alter [11 October 2016] I really do not understand the message I received this morning. Paul and Karen were married Dec. 28, 1967 in a Baptist Church in the city of Fairfax, VA. The proposed place of marriage was Alexandria, VA and I guess changed to Fairfax, VA at the last minute. They lived in Alexandria, VA.

They did not have any children together. She had a child in 1957, me, my father was not Paul and all records point to there not being any other children born to Karen. She worked at the Pentagon until she retired and she and Paul moved to Arizona. She died January 28, 2016 in Arizona. Paul died August 4, 1998.

Karen was adopted through an orphanage in Sioux City, Iowa. Her adoptive parents moved to Alexandra, VA. Her adoptive parents divorced when she was 2 years old , she was raised by her adoptive mother with help from her maternal grand-mother. She attended Catholic girls boarding school, although the family was not catholic. During highschool she lived at home with her mother and attended the local public school.

So that things might make sense in the future could you contact me directly at LadyBear@ladybear.com ? I would love any and all information regarding my birth mothers life and family.

Laura--LadyBear 15:40, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Laura, I got the message you left on my talk page (copied above). The email you got would have said that Family:Paul Detwiler and Karen Alter (1) was merged with Family:Paul Detwiler and Karen Alter (2). What this means is that you had created two different pages for the same marriage, one showing the marriage taking place in Alexandria, the other showing the marriage taking place in Fairfax. As you may know, there are not supposed to be duplicate pages on WeRelate, only one page for each person, and one page for each family. When the computer thinks there are duplicate pages for the same family, it flags them and puts them in a list. There are a number of people at WeRelate, volunteer administrators and others, who work to try to keep WeRelate as accurate as possible, and to remove problems like duplicate pages by merging them, which is what I did.

If you want to see what changes have been made a page you are watching, you can go the menu on the left hand side of the page and click history. That will give you a list of changes that you and other have made. Using the radio buttons in the list, you can look at the different pages before and after any particular changes that interest you.

You seem to have a fair bit of information. You should put that information on the various pages, along with sources for your information. The more information you add, along with good quality sources (not just copies from what someone else has said), the less likely that any information you add will be changed. Adding death dates and sources for Paul and Karen should probably be your first priority, since their marriage is recent enough to suggest they might still be living, and living people are not allowed on WeRelate. It would be very easy for someone to want suggest they should be deleted as a result. Putting the death information (and sources) on their pages would prevent that.

I assume you are looking for information regarding Karen's biological parents? This is another reason for putting as much information out in public as possible (although you don't necessarily have to give your reason for looking for information). You could start here, including the sources for your information, then copy that information to other websites. If you want to focus on free websites for now, both WikiTree and FamilyTree on FamilySearch are free, and will increase the possibility of someone with more information seeing your information. (They, like WeRelate, are both wiki sites.) There are also groups on Facebook where you can ask for help. Gayel --GayelKnott 00:15, 12 October 2016 (UTC)