What is the best way to straighten out sloppily done family history

And we're back!   Hope everyone had a great Christmas.  Today's question comes from a ward member:

"What is the best way to straighten out sloppily done family history?"

This is a big problem in pioneer lines.  A lot of people have merged files that shouldn't be, duplicated files that shouldn't be and put wrong relationships in willy-nilly.  Frankly, this is one of the things that family historians hate most about family history: dealing with these things.  But this is part of what is addressed by the new Family Tree program. It is easier to deal with these problems with the new software.

However, if you want to go in and repair those things, many people don't want to mess with it, so they just roll their eyes at the mess.  Actually, if you want to do a service to the rest of the family history world, repairing that mess is a great one.

I know that this one wasn't a very long answer.  If you're not into fixing it, just deal with it and have it correct on your own personal records.

Provo YSA 18th Ward Family History signing off, check back next week.  The topic is TBD