Merge of person and spouse combined
Have the option to merge both the person and their spouses at the same time.
Many of the records I am merging are birth records from Krajne, Slovakia. Each person has an identity with a spouse for each child. As it is, I have to merge all the first individual then go and merge all the spouses.
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I second that
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I have wished for some way of doing this as well. When researching whether a possible duplicate really is a duplicate, the spouse is an integral part of the equation, and it would be neater -- and thus less prone to error -- if the two merges could be done together.
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Trying to do the merges together sounds really complicated and confusing. After all, for each person you need to decide first if the two people are a match, and then decide exactly which facts, events, and relationships are to be preserved in the merged person. A user interface that tried to merge multiple people at once, presenting all these decisions (multiple facts/events/relationships for multiple persons) on a single screen, would be so busy that it would most likely increase the error rate.
One variation on this suggestion that would be relatively simple and would accomplish the same goal is this:
At the end of the merge, FamilySearch could check whether there are possible duplicates for the relatives of the newly-merged person. Then propose the next possible duplicate with a prompt noting that there now is a possible duplicate spouse -- would you like to merge them? Then run through the merge process for those spouses, and at the end, check again. Continue iterating until there are no more possible duplicates in this family.
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I don't think combining the two merges on one screen would necessarily be any more complicated and confusing than the current difficulty of keeping track of which duplicate spouses one has already done and which ones are still waiting. If one simply went by a "successive suggestions" approach and then got interrupted by Real Life, it could leave the tree with an utter mess of duplicate-chains (H1 with W1 and W2, W1 with H1 and H2, W2 with H1 and H3, H2 with W1 and W3, and so forth and so on). This would be compounded by profiles that are based on misindexed records, which often show up as a duplicate for one spouse but not the other.
The combined-merge setup would not need to be any more complicated than a simple repeat of the current merge screen(s), one below the other. (Side-by-side-by-side would require more screen width than most people have, and sideways scrolling is hard. Up-and-down, on the other hand, we're expected to do All The Time anyway by FS's designers.)
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