How do I delete a duplicate from my view of my Family tree?
I have an ancestor (Abraham Dains) who is showing up on my view of my Family Tree twice. I have checked the ID number of the ancestor. It is the same in both cases. All of his detailed information is the same. Still, he shows up twice in my tree. How can I "redraw" my tree so Abraham isn't shown twice?
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Is Abraham Dains possibly related twice within your tree? Is there a red flag on his profile with "reoccurring person" when you hover over it? See my screenshot.
In my case, first cousins married, so their grandparents appear twice.
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@CynthiaPeugnet Is he married to Susanna Leggett / Susan Leggit? If that is your ancestor, I would look at the two wives to determine if they are the same person. Then merge them.
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In general, repeats of a profile (same ID) in the same column of the Family Members section are caused by multiple relationships. These can be perfectly correct, as when a person is listed under his birth parents, and then again under his adoptive parents. They can also be due to some type of error, such as an unfinished merge of two families, where one spouse has been combined, but not the other.
The ones that are hardest to figure out and fix are where a child somehow ends up with an extra relationship to one parent separately: there'll be the full family as normal, and then below that, there'll be just the dad or just the mom with one of the kids. They're all the same profiles, so nothing can be fixed with merging. Instead, you need to click the pencil next to the child's name and remove the extraneous parent. It gives all sorts of warnings whenever you edit relationships, so it feels scary, like it can't possibly be the right thing to do, but it is.
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An alternative to Julia's suggestion (which i frequently use) is to add a place holder spouse to the single parent and then merge the two spouses. That will also resolve the situation and it doesn't raise so many flags. Some people prefer this approach to removing a relationship. Just an alternative to consider.
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