Merging records
Hi
I am having a problem merging the records for an individual. The person in question, Robert Richardson - LQ13-ZPP , has already had his birth parents added but at some point, his father must have been added on his own, thus creating a separate birth attachment. However, when I have tried to add the mother, this has come up with 'realtionship already exists' which I know as these are the parents! It's one of the more frustrating parts of FamilySearch and one that I think should be addressed as this happens so often. Can someone help please and amalgamate the records into just the one.
I have included the son's reference number, above. When you get to the record you will see that he has both his parents as 'his parents' but then you will see that there are 2 separate additions, one of just his father being his parent and then one of his mother just being his parent, yet I am unable to 'delete' these separate parent ones as they are the same reference numbers as the 'joint' parent codes. Or can I?
Thanks
Jim
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Yes, I've seen this before. Sometimes it's the result of merging records with partial relationships, but here it looks like maybe you added the extra parent relationships when you connected a source on June 4th, 2020.
Yes, you can remove the extra one-parent relationships. Start with the "Detail" page, "Family Members", "Parents and Siblings". Here's what it looks like in the old interface...
... or in the new one ...
(You may need to expand "Children (1)").
Click the pencil icon, and under the child that comes up, click "Remove or Replace". Choose the "Remove Parents" option, give a reason, and save.
Repeat for the other parent.
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As David said, this is not a matter of merging. There's only one of each of the profiles in question. The error is in the connections between the profiles: there are extra parent-child relationships that need to be removed. (The "Remove or Replace" buttons really should be labeled "Remove or Replace Relationship", since that's what they actually do.)
There is another way to fix these types of errors that's useful if there are many children under the half-relationship. Instead of editing each of those relationships individually to remove them, you can temporarily add a duplicate of the spouse and then merge it into the real spouse. This doesn't apply here, since editing the single relationship is much shorter than create-then-merge, but you said you encounter this error frequently, so it's something to keep in your arsenal.
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Thanks to you both for your wisdom. I have now done as you both suggested and have resolved the issue. My main fear was that, by removing the 'single' parent relationships (which I have done before) I would actually remove the 'dual' relationship details too. Thankfully not!
Most appreciated and I, again, thank you both.
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