In preparation for our stake Family Discovery Day, I've viewed several RootsTech presentations and tutorials about the FamilySearch Tree descendancy view. All emphasized the temple icon and neglected the other three. I explored the opposite approach. Happily only two of my Teter cousins showed problem icons, about pre-adolescent brides. With historical record hints I adjusted a too-early marriage date for one bride and a too-recent birthdate for the other. Problems solved.
The system did not mind that John Poole of England, husband of Mrs. John Poole, had been combined with John Whipps Poole of Maryland and Ohio, husband of Ann Pierce and Rebecca C. John Whipps Poole had daughters with his second wife, Rebecca, born in Ross County, Ohio in the years before and after John Poole's son George was born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England. The pregnancies would pass a math test but not a geography check. Searching the Tree turned up a record for John Poole of Wiveliscombe, stripped of relationships but with the same no-contact contributor as George and Mrs. John.
I like being the lifeguard on duty.
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