I have a situation where two of the people in my tree are accurate matches with another person's tree and are candidates for merge. The issue is the prior ancestor above these two is still a bit of a controversy. Some evidence exists this person was born in Scotland (Scottish archives) while others show this person born in Virginia. Same birth date. I find no evidence for the Virginia birth. If I merge the two accurate matches I'm going to end up connected to a tree showing the prior ancestor born in Virginia whereas I believe he came from Scotland. How would one go about allowing only a partial merge? I don't want the virginia born person on my portion of the tree.
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Jeff, Geni Curator I would recommend merging and then starting a discussion. Curators can easily disconnect branches that are questionable or sometimes we can add a note at the top of the profile indicating that the parents are speculative. The important thing is to document and discuss what you're doing. We would rather not have duplicates where people are taking different directions. One point of a collaborative tree is to remove those false connections and have it apply to everyone. It's likely someone just copied that ancestry from some online tree and they'd welcome someone who has dug into the research, even if it means disconnect an ancestry. https://www.geni.com/worldfamilytree/learn-more
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