Reversing a merger when there is no record of the original merger in Latest Changes
My ancestor Samuel Marshall (GDXB-GJ7) of Virginia has somehow been merged with John Francis Marshall of Massachusetts. John is the husband of Mary Sarah Parks Malone (M36P-KST). The sources of these two persons have been comingled as well.
I was able to unmerge PID G27J-MBS from Mary Sarah Parks Malone. The result was that the unmerge separated out Samuel Marshall's five children. So far so good.
Ordinarily, I would find a merge record in the "Latest Changes" section for Samuel Marshall as well. There is nothing of the sort available to me.
How do I either find the Samuel Marshall and John Francis Marshall merge so I can reverse it or is there another way to solve this problem?
Thanks,
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The title should be Reversing a merger when there is no record of the original merger in Latest Changes
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He was merged on 11 July 2023, and you can see the details here and restore him: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GXTC-Y4H
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The merge was on July 11, but the user who did it first changed the name from Samuel to John, and then from John to John Francis, so the entire change log now shows John Francis. (Yeah, it gets Really Confusing.)
Since other stuff has happened to the profile since the merge, "unmerge" is unavailable, but you can restore the merge-deleted profile (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G29N-1DT) and then sort out the events and sources and stuff.
You may want to send a message to the user who hijacked Samuel to become John Francis, pointing out (as gently as you can manage) that that's not how a collaborative tree works. If the profile is for the wrong person, correct the relationships, don't change the identity.
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Mod note- title changed as requested
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