Twins are often mistaken for each other

I am trying to clean up the records in New Family Search by going through each family. I ran across a problem with my grandfathers younger sister.  She had two husbands by the name of Andrus.   Here is what I found and what I did to correct it.

Emma Maude Gee Person identifier: KVPR-M25

Married to Joseph Boyce Andrus Person identifier: KVPR-M25

There are children listed in this marriage.

And Joseph Benjamin Andrus Person identifier: KVPR-M25 5 Combined Records and no children

I thought that Joseph Boyce and Joseph Benjamin were twins, sons of Milo Andrus, but I was wrong.

In NFS they were married on the same day 25 December 1900.  I doubt that Emma would marry twin brothers on the same day.  The marriage of Emma and Joseph Boyce was performed by my great grandfather bishop Marion Joseph Kerr in Ora, Fremont, Idaho.  The sealing in the Logan temple was erformed by my great, great grandfather Marriner W. Merrill.   That is keeping in the family.

9SNW-QNB  Contributor 1 Contact name:FamilySearch Contributor 2 Contact name:nward321088 lists only Joseph Benjamin as a spouse for Emma Maude.

935G-G4S, 935R-R15, 9H2N-WGN, 9CD5-B2R Records list both Joseph Boyce and Joseph Benjamin as spouses. With Contact name: lhendricks2711802 E-mail address:lorellehen, Contributor 1 Contact name:FamilySearch (Pedigree Resource File) Contributor 2 Contact name:lhendricks2711802 E-mail address:lorellehen, Contributor 1 Contact name:dskump2686857 Contributor 2 Contact name:FamilySearch (Ancestral File), and Contributor 1 Contact name:dskump2686857 Contributor 2 Contact name:FamilySearch (Ancestral File)

• KWZX-2SB In looking at Joseph Boyce Andrus Combined records only 1 of the 54 records MGZQ-69P has the name of Joseph Benjamin married to Emma Maude Gee.  I have separated this record out today May 1, 2012.

Lydia Rosetta French (1887-1971) Person identifier: KWCP-Y6P Was married to Benjamin Boyce Andrus (1878-1954) Person identifier: KWCP-Y6L 22 sep 1905 and sealed in SLAKE 7 November 1906

There are various dates of marriage listed for this union 1902, 1903, and 1905 with various places of marriage.

It is evident to me that Benjamin Boyce is his real name and that Joseph Boyce Andrus has been confused with Joseph Benjamin Andrus a person that does not exist. Thus the marriage of Emma Maude Gee was only to one man with two different names; Joseph Boyce Andrus and Joseph Benjamin Andrus.

Now how do we solve this problem when we finally have the facts in front of us.

Joseph Benjamin Andrus Person identifier: LHX6-PG4 has 5 combined records all married to Emma Maude Gee.

Since we have all the PINs I will combine the spouses.

LHX6-PG4 9SNW-QND 935G-GPG 935R-T8 Y9H2J-6PD 9CD5-BT4

Contributor 1 Contact name:dskump2686857 Contributor 2 Contact name:rogerbohman1 E-mail address:bohmanfh@hotmail.com Contributor 3 Contact name:lhendricks2711802 E-mail address:lorellehen Contributor 4 Contact name:nward321088 Contributor 5 Contact name:FamilySearch

Joseph Benjamin Andrus Person identifier: MGZQ-69P has no combined records, because this was the record that we separated out of Benjamin Boyce Andrus record.

Contributor 1 Contact name:vandrus23296 Contributor 2 Contact name:FamilySearch

We will combine this record with the main record.

Now the record of Emma Maude Gee is correct and she only has one husband.

We now need to explain what we did so that patrons seeing this record will not separate the records.

On the details view I put: DO NOT SEPARATE

Joseph Boyce and Joseph Benjamin are the same individual. Please see the discussions.

In the discussions I placed: Name Confusion

Joseph Boyce Andrus has mistakenly been named Joseph Benjamin Andrus in some of the records attached and combined with this one. Emma Maude Gee is the spouse.  

There are 59 records for Joseph Boyce Andrus of these the following 7 have his brother Benjamin Boyce Andrus’ spouse Lydia Rosette French Person identifier: KWCP-Y6P listed as his spouse.

MWY9-ZLW, KWZX-2SB, 935R-RB1, 9351-S6D, 9CD5-B2V, 9XFS-CW6, 9XFS-CWK,

 In Lydia’s record there are 65 combined records. The following have Joseph Boyce Andrus listed as a spouse KWCP-Y6P, M72X-GFV, 935G-G88, 935R-T3N, 9CD5-BGC, 9XFS-CWX, 9XFS-CW2,

Although they were twins, they did not share the same wife!!

Benjamin Boyce Andrus Person identifier: KWCP-Y6L record does not reflect any erroneous spouses.

I wrote the above information to Support at New Family Search with the following plea:

I would appreciate it if we could put the proper spouses together.

Emma Maude Gee is my grand aunt and Joseph Boyce Andrus is my grand uncle.

We will now await the results of Data Administration.  I have done all that I  could do on my end.

Support e-mailed me back today May 4th with the following message:

Dear Ivin Laurence Gee,
RE: Lydia Rosetta French

Thank you for contacting FamilySearch Data Administration.  We have edited the record for Lydia Rosetta French and she no longer appears with an incorrect spouse in new FamilySearch.  Thank you for bringing this concern to our attention.

Sincerely,

FamilySearch Data Administration
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