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Deleting duplicate marriage events

Brent Baadsgaard
Brent Baadsgaard ✭
November 21, 2022 in Family Tree

I have an ancestor where 3 separate but duplicate marriage events have been added. I want to delete 2 of them. I can see only a way to edit them not delete them.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 21, 2022 edited November 21, 2022

    @Brent Baadsgaard

    Are you working from the old person page or the new format? Are the multiple events or just multiple sources attached to a single event?

    On this profile, LHJR-218, for Robert Lee Burgess, there were multiple events created when several sources for the same event were attached. I removed the duplicate events a few weeks ago, leaving just a single event, with multiple sources attached.

    https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/changelog/LHJR-218

    If I view Robert's profile in Beta, which does not update from the changes I made in the real profile, I can see that there are still 3 events attached. Clicking the pencil icon to the right of the extra events gives me the option to delete those events.

    Hope this helps.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 22, 2022 edited November 22, 2022

    Continuing Áine's advice, after clicking the edit (pencil) button, you'll probably need to scroll down to find the "Delete Event" link.

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    The process is much the same in the old interface; only the labels and exact button/link locations have changed.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 22, 2022

    Thanks, Julia. I think the Community still has issues displaying 2 images in one comment, and I didn't want to risk losing both.

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