How to Merge People in FamilySearch’s Family Tree • FamilySearch
How to Merge People in FamilySearch’s Family Tree • FamilySearch
It might be exciting to find your great-grandmother in FamilySearch Family Tree. But what about finding her four times—each record with a little different information?
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Excellent help for merging by ID. Thanks!
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This was valuable information. I have learned a lot about the merge process. Since there is so much data involved in learning how to create a family tree, and to save priceless family finds, ect. articles of this sort are very helpful to the learning process. Thank you!
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None of my children on my family tree have the same ID number as they do on their own family tree. This is causing lots of problems. I have all sorts of duplicates, and the program is not recognizing others as being part of my family tree. How do I correct all these mistakes?
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In each person's FamilySearch account, they have a private space for those who are listed as living. The ID number you have for someone in this space will be different than the ID that another person will have in their own space. This is to protect the privacy of living persons. When each person dies and the user marks that record as deceased, it will then be viewable to all in the public Family Tree. At this point it can be merged with other deceased duplicates.
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Thank you for your reply, @Amy Archibald . This has all been very frustrating for me. Yesterday, when I did a "Relatives Near Me" search, it said my son was my first cousin once removed. My daughter's account shows she has no siblings, even though she is a twin and has four other siblings. My husband's account doesn't show one of our sons, but it shows all the others. My adopted son's account still shows him with his birth parents, even though he hasn't been with them since he was eight and was adopted into another family before we adopted him. I haven't entered any names into my account--they just populated on their own, but that certainly isn't true for many members in my family. With all these duplicates and missing people, I don't understand how this is supposed to bring families together.
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Each person is responsible for their own account and which living people they put in their account. You can help each of your children and your spouse to add individuals they are interested in having show in their account. They will each have different IDs for each family member since each user's account is private.
Please see this Help Center article: How does Family Tree protect the privacy of living people?
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You may also find this discussion in the FamilySearch Community helpful:
What is the relationship between FamilySearch and current church membership records?
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