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Can anyone please tell me why when a Merge Persons lists another child, adding that child creates a

Chris Clayton
Chris Clayton ✭
March 28, 2020 edited February 8, 2021 in Family Tree
Can anyone please tell me why when a Merge Persons lists another child, adding that child creates a duplicate set of parents with this child.

Normally I would add the child manually to prevent this from happening but it would be a lot easier to just take it over espically with an instance I have now with 11 duplicates.

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  • Cindy Hecker
    Cindy Hecker ✭✭✭
    March 28, 2020 Answer ✓

    It is about the ID numbers. If different numbers for children you keep merging them. If for example you see a husband and wife with children and you are merging one of the parents...if they child has the same ID on both halves of the merge screen then do not move the child over. He/she is already there. If you move them that is when you see the hanging one parent one child events.

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  • Family Bible
    Family Bible ✭✭
    March 28, 2020

    possibly because the duplicate children were two different records (albeit for the same person).

    there are various scenarios

    can you point us at the specific case?

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  • Chris Clayton
    Chris Clayton ✭
    March 29, 2020

    Thank you both for your replies. Sorry I didn't explain the problem very well. When looking at the Merge Persons page the children are not listed on the left hand side of the page just the right so not a duplicated but a new child to add. It's when I add the child that it creates a second set of parents with that new child on the main page. Seeing your mention of ID numbers Cindy, I've just tried copying the ID number for the new child from the Merge page and adding them on the main family page to see what would happen and its worked no duplicate parents but why should it work that way!!!

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