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merge two names to be one

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254 views asked Mar 15, 2022 by peterhan (120 points)
Can you give us a little more information about what you're trying to do?
Hello
 
I have two people in my tree with different bits of family attached.
 
These two people are the same person, I want to make them 'one' without loosing the various bits of attached family.
 
Thanks
 

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There isn't an automated way to merge two people on the family tree into one person. I would do something like this:

  1. One of the two people is connected to the tree initially as a child of someone on the tree (Person A) and the other person is connected to the tree initially as the spouse of someone on the tree (Person B).
  2. Person A (the descendent, not the spouse) is the person you want to "keep". 
  3. Add all of the descendents from Person B who are not already attached to Person A to Person A.
  4. Once everyone is added to Person A, Delete those people from Person B (from lowest to highest on the tree)
  5. Finally delete person B and add them again in the same spot, but when you add them as a spouse, choose "Partner with person already on tree" Then pick Person A as that person. 
  6. This will cause them to appear as a "duplicate". This is what you want. A duplicate simply means that this person also appears elsewhere in the tree, because they are related in more than one way.
answered Mar 22, 2022 by lsommerer (51,610 points)
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