Person talk:Edna Aucoin (1)

Missing references [5 July 2019]

Hi Mike - Edna Aucoin is an example of what I am seeing in several person pages after your recent update. Your methodology sounds good, ie that you delete meaningless references but here is an example where the 1910, 1920, and 1930 census records have been deleted and the 1900 census now has 2 entries. Thanks for the tip on rolling back the history but is there a way to merge new information from a gedcom? As much as I don’t want to lose all the work I’ve done I also don’t want to delete new contributions. I would like to collaborate. It is always nice when somebody has similar research interests. Thanks. --David Blanchard 17:32, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Did you do your original work by uploading a GEDCOM? Or did you do it page by individual page (which can take forever, to be honest)? If you did a GEDCOM, you will remember that it starts with a "review" phase, where you merge existing pages with your new upload, choosing one version over the other, or just keeping both. That can be confusing, even for me after all these years, and if I inadvertently screwed up something, that's probably where it happened.

I do a lot of censuses, and with full text -- but only in full for the head of household, so you'll see the complete 1900 census (my version, that is) on her father's page. What's on Edna's page is like a "placeholder" -- but I ought to have deleted that when I saw that you had already done 1900. When I started on WR a decade ago, I tried putting the whole thing on everyone's page who appears in the census listing, but that added many, many more hours to the amount of work required. Especially with Catholic families with a dozen kids. This is also a reflection of the fact that I still use TMG as my desktop software, which has a very quick "witness" function, but it doesn't translate easily to GEDCOM format for export.

I'm certainly open to collaboration, but I should repeat that all this is my wife's family, not my own. (I'm a Texan of Midwestern & Upper South ancestry.) My wife is 10th generation Louisiana, including Isleno, German Coast, Florida Parishes, and early New Orleans military people. She has many generations of ancestors buried within 50 miles of our house. She's heavily involved in DNA now, managing more than 20 kits for family & clients, and I've been doing a lot of the grunt work getting as much of her widespread family as possible onto Ancestry, so it will click with potential relatives. And since I'm doing that anyway, I'm also uploading it all to WR. (I also have a number of projects of my own, which are noted on my page here.)

As you edit things that don't look right or roll back changes, I'll get an email alert, of course, and then I can go and see how that compares with what I have. If it's just an error on my part, no problem -- and I apologize for that. If it raises questions, though, I'll shoot you a note and we can see what we come up with. Is all your family on WR Aucoin & Blanchard, by the way? I'm doing a lot of work on the Lanoux lines here in Ascension (my wife's Lanoux ancestors have been here for 200 years, including the founders of Gonzales), and also the Mires. And I'm about to start on a bunch of Delaunes & Templets. --Mike^Talk 20:58, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. Like your wife I also have Acadian/Cajun, German Coast, and Islenos in my family tree so I’m sure our branches are interconnected quite a bit. Back when I started on We Relate I tried to upload a gedcom file but if I remember correctly there were too many errors and things to correct so almost everything I’ve done on here was loaded manually over the years. I have included census details in many places which may be overkill to restate family relationships but it also lets us know who was home when and it is an easy cut and paste after it is entered once.

I’ve completed all of my paternal grandfather’s family tree, which starts with Blanchards and Aucoins (back to my brick walls anyway). I have some Canadians that I’m working on, Dufaut’s that married into my Percle (German Coast) branch.  My maternal side includes LeBlancs, Terrebonnes (and many more Acadians), Alonzo’s and Marques (Islenos), and Chesnuts (Irish).

Thanks again for the detailed message. I’m looking forward to see the additional research added to our (your wife and my) common ancestors.--David Blanchard 18:38, 5 July 2019 (UTC)