Merge Error: Cannot merge with spouse?
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/merge/verify/LKYF-VN2/LKYF-VHK
- I am getting a merge warning (A spouse cannot be merged with his or her spouse.) while trying to merge two women with the same names and dates. The less documented PID (LKYF-VHK) was originally entered as male, but I corrected that in order to merge her as a duplicate of LKYF-VN2. No sources are attached to her, so no information or reason statement for why Thelma was originally added as male. S/He was never linked as a husband to anyone, much less Thelma Mae (LKYF-VN2) according to the change log. All record sources listed for Thelma Mae identify her as female.
- I am perplexed as to how to resolve this issue so I can merge the two PIDs for Thelma Mae Tout.
- Ideas? Thoughts?
Best Answer
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Looks strange. There must be something in the underlying data of one of these two profiles that we users can't see. It's very possible that whatever it is, is triggering an incorrect warning statement. Probably only an administrator who can access the full database structure of these can fix whatever is blocking the merge.
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I get the same warning message. No obvious cause for it.
Suggest you try unlinking LKYF-VHK from her husband (no marriage information entered) and seeing whether the merge will work then.
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Graham Buckell, someone else made an attempt to unlink the husband, but it made no difference. The change log is a mess.
I called support and the missionary and I jumped through all the usual hoops on their list to no avail. We did find another PID that had been merged with Thelma Mae LKYF-VN2 and we unrestored that one and tried to merge her with Thelma LKYF-VHK. LKYF-VHK was definitely the Problem PID, as the same error code was returned.
Support escalated the issue up the chain and it has been magically resolved from behind the curtain and I have no idea why it was being difficult. A living PID was mentioned at one point, so perhaps the change in sex plus a living child in the mix, may have created the issue. I wish I knew the explanation, but Gordon nailed it, again!
For now, all the known duplicates for this person are merged.
Thank you for the replies!
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