To Merge or UnMerge, that is the question (FamilySearch Tutorial)

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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood," may have worked for Robert -Frost, but for FamilySearch users is can be tricky - check out this how-to tutorial for merging and unmerging individuals in the Family Search Family Tree.
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In this video we will talk about how to examine two individuals on FamilySearch that may need to be merged, how to merge the two identities and, on the flip side, how to unmerge individuals when a mistake has been made.
0:00 Intro
0:57 Merging duplicates on the FamilySearch Family Tree
1:20 Evaluating a potential merge
3:08 Research helps which show duplicates
3:22 Standardized birth places
3:34 Finding the possible duplicates on FamilySearch
3:41 Reviewing a merge (that we don't merge)
4:35 Looking more closely
6:00 Coaching now available!
6:40 Second merge candidate (that we do merge)
8:05 Step by step merging
11:03 Unmerging - identifying people who should be unmerged
11:23 Following person in FamilySearch Family Tree
12:22 Latest changes on an individual which show previous merging
13:03 Unmerging merges YOU made
13:47 Unmerging merges others made
15:00 Contacting FamilySearch
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@terria9739 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this info. I have been unsure of merging on family search and I didn't know you can undo it if needs be. Awesome!

@AncestryAimee Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

@jparker5050 9 ай бұрын

Dealing with this now, someone merged, and deleted family members, and attached new profiles without knowing what they were doing. It's a complete mess as over a dozen profiles where impacted. Glad to find these how to videos.

@AncestryAimee 9 ай бұрын

So glad they can help you. It’s frustrating, but I guess we all make mistakes when we are beginning.

@mirandabailey5700 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video! Recently dealt with two really bad merges by someone else. It was one of those similar names and location situations. Good to know I can contact FamilySearch about this. I thought I had no hope in getting them unmerged!

@AncestryAimee Жыл бұрын

Glad this helped! Good luck fixing everything.

@DouglasScruton 3 ай бұрын

Instead of merging people, how do you merge duplicate facts. I see people with the name field or AKA field with the same name repeated several times. In Family Tree Maker there is a Merge Duplicate Facts, but I can't find something like that here.

@AncestryAimee 3 ай бұрын

Good question. You can’t merge them. You just delete the duplicate fact. Good luck!

@carolynclark8780 2 ай бұрын

Hi Aimee. I've been working in Family Search for a couple of years now and have run across quite a few instances in my very large family tree where it became obvious that two separate people had been merged (not by me) when they should not have been. Not finding any FS feature that would help me separate them, I've been doing it "manually" by creating a new person, removing the appropriate facts and sources from the merged person and adding them to the new person, and then reviewing each of the now separate person records for consistency. Is this a bad method? Should I stop using it? It seems to accomplish what's needed. Why do you recommend contacting Family Search and having them do the unmerge instead? What is the advantage in that?

@AncestryAimee 2 ай бұрын

You can find the merge in the history of the person on the right side of their profile page. Your method works. But it is more time consuming and you may be missing other relationships or information that was associated with the person lost in the merge. Yes. Relationships should have been maintained but sometimes aren’t particularly when a merge was done erroneously. But way to go working to fix things! Hope this has made sense and helps.

@sr2291 Жыл бұрын

Is there any way to get rid of the duplicate names and tge chart making a v shape when there is a first cousin marriage. The married couples fathers are brothers.

@AncestryAimee Жыл бұрын

You can get rid of duplicate names - just click on the pencil near it and there's a delete option Not sure what the tge chart making a v shape is.

@Jan-xp8yi Жыл бұрын

How do you determine which profile is the surviving profile

@AncestryAimee Жыл бұрын

The video addressed that in the middle. When looking at the two people near the top in the middle you will see a button with arrows. That allows you the select whom you want to survive. Does that answer your question?

@Martha8h 11 ай бұрын

How use family tree with legacy 9?

@AncestryAimee 11 ай бұрын

I’m not familiar with legacy 9. I’m sorry.

@thiago_oliv 3 ай бұрын

My wife has an account. I can't find her ID to add as my spouse. We tried to put everything 'public' on our permissions and profile settings. Everytime I input her ID, it returns none found. What am I doing wrong?

@AncestryAimee 3 ай бұрын

Living people can’t have their ID used in any tree other than the one where they were created into. Unless you and your wife share a family group tree, which is a new feature. Scroll down on the right and go to family search labs and you could do the family group tree, and then you could share living people.

@clamk77 2 ай бұрын

You will need to add her to your tree manually. Her name will have a different ID number than in her tree. Then you will need to manually add any of her ancestors that are still living. (Outside the “family groups” section that Aimee mentions below all living records are private and only viewable to the person who added them.) Once you get to a person who is deceased choose “add by ID” and using their ID number from your wife’s tree you can add them to your tree. The rest of the deceased ancestors will populate in your tree. I hope that helps.