Merging people
In the last couple of days, I've merged a few people. In each instance, I now show as the contributor for each birth, christening fact, etc. I believe this is new. If two people are combined, the person who contributed a particular fact should still show as the contributor.
Someone may ask me where I obtained the particular piece of information when I wasn't the contributor. It may even confuse me because I'll think I know the information when I don't.
Please reverse this change.
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@JMS , this behavior is not new -- it has worked this way for many years (I'm quite sure it has worked this way since the inception of Family Tree). I do share your frustration with this procedure, since it gives credit to me for facts I did not create, and did not modify (except very obliquely through the merge process). I can see how FamilySearch may think that I should take responsibility, since I did decide to retain each fact in the merge. But it's a bit awkward when the reason for a person's death before the merge is something like "Because I am her granddaughter and I was at her bedside when she passed away" and then after the merge that reason is attributed to me. I am no one's granddaughter, and certainly was not present when my first cousin twice removed passed away.
The original contributor (or the last editor before the merge) is still available in the change log for any fact updated in a merge, but rarely do people dig deep enough to find out who that was.
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As Alan says, it has always worked this way, but it only applies to conclusions that you transfer in the merge. If you keep the merge-survivor's conclusion and discard/ignore the conclusion from the merge-deleted profile, then the "last changed" attribution remains the same as it was before the merge.
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