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MLV2
MLV2 ✭✭✭
January 31, 2022 edited July 16, 2024 in Family Tree

FS support could not help so they said to post here. Two records each suggest possible duplicate, which do present as duplicates when compared. Repeated efforts over 3 weeks to merge the two records both by PID and by following the review merge process fail, as shown by the below screen shot. I have cleared cache/browsing history but that doesn't help. The two PID's are LXP3-539 and GQZ8-125.

Michael

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  • Brett .
    Brett . ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 31, 2022

    @MLV2

    FYI

    I am just another 'lowly' User/Patron ...

    Just in passing ...

    IF, you have not ALREADY tried; THEN, ...

    Suggestion: Try "Merging"/"Combining"; so that, Brent De COPE ( LXP3-539 ), is the "Surviving" individual/person.

    As, that "Record", is the OLDER "Record", in "Family Tree:, of 'FamilySearch'.

    [ That often helps ... ]

    Just my thoughts.

    Brett

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  • MLV2
    MLV2 ✭✭✭
    January 31, 2022

    Thanks Brett, but FS says the records can only be merged in that order.

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  • Brett .
    Brett . ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 31, 2022

    @MLV2

    FYI

    As, I am "Related" ...

    'Done and Dusted' ... All FIXED ...

    I found, that Brent De COPE (GQZ8-125), has been previously 'Merged'/'Combined', with Brent De COPE (KWHV-Z61).

    Where ...

    Brent De COPE ( KWHV-Z61 ), had actually been participated in, by the ACTUAL individual/person concerned.

    I suggest, that may have been partly WHY, the "System", would ONLY allow, Brent De COPE ( LXP3-539 ), to be the "Surviving" record.

    So ...

    As such ...

    [ 1 ]

    I "Restored", Brent De COPE ( KWHV-Z61 ); as, such, been participated in, by the ACTUAL individual/person concerned.

    I then, "Re-Merged"/"Re-Combined" both, Brent De COPE ( KWHV-Z61 ); and, Brent De COPE ( GQZ8-125 ); so that, Brent De COPE ( KWHV-Z61 ), was the "Surviving" individual /person; as, such, been participated in, by the ACTUAL individual/person concerned.

    [ 2 ]

    After ...

    I then, "Merged"/"Combined" both, Brent De COPE ( KWHV-Z61 ); and, Brent De COPE ( LXP3-539 ); so that, Brent De COPE ( KWHV-Z61 ), was, again, the "Surviving" individual /person; as, such, been participated in, by the ACTUAL individual/person concerned.

    Now ...

    That Said ...

    ALL Done.

    I hope that you do not mind.

    Brett

    ps: I thought, such would be too difficult, to try explain (ie. the WHY; and, the HOW) in "Writing", in a post; and, as, I am "Related", I felt, me doing the work, was somewhat justified (and, somewhat acceptable).

    .

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  • MLV2
    MLV2 ✭✭✭
    January 31, 2022

    Brett, thanks very much - now I've learned to look at the history and unmerge. So double thanks for the actual work and for the lesson!

    Your profile is marked private so I can't see how we are related, but again, thank you.

    Michael

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