Merge Analysis—A New, Detailed Look at Merges in the Family Tree • FamilySearch
Merge Analysis—A New, Detailed Look at Merges in the Family Tree • FamilySearch
FamilySearch has a new merge analysis view to help improve your experience with merges in the collaborative FamilySearch Family Tree. Learn more here.
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Great job
I have sent tis out to my 34 patrons
Thank you for the up date.
No wonder Family Search is considered Number One on the plant.
Bernie
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Please help me to download this, I have at least 4 or 5 families in Scotland with the same names that live all over the country that have been merged and I need to unmerge them. I am also a missionary at the Ogden family search center. We saw this in one of our classes and would like to help others with this program. Thank you so much.
Sister Toni Nowland
toninowland@gmail.com
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I applaud the work that has gone into this tool. It will be useful for those who can find it and then use it.
My greatest worry is that it doesn't provide enough help for those poor people who have discovered that they've made an error merging, but they've already made further changes so they can't revert.
As an experiment, I started logging the work I was doing to repair damage to a number of families that had been merged into one by some contributors who appear to have followed hints without checking.
I created a work plan to locate unique persons, then trace them, and create new parents and siblings so that I could gradually untangle and rebuild the various families.
It took hundreds of hours.
If the merge mechanism contained a built-in recorder that logged all the record and person IDs that were changed when it merged, then that could be retained for a few weeks so that a user would be able to untangle the entire merge when they discovered that it had all gone wrong.
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Toni L Draper For your unique and specific needs, try booking a session with the Free Research Consultations provided by the FamilySearch Library.
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Many family members, including myself, who are long-time members of the Church, create records of their living relatives with information from their personal knowledge. Then when the people die they don't realize that the Membership Record eventually gets released to the Family Tree creating duplicates. The Membership Record contains the ordinances as well as other helpful information at the time the person became a member. The Membership Record also has a PID that matches his/her spouse's PID. Often an inexperienced user will merge the Membership Record into their personal record, made when the person was still alive, which then shows the living PID which then doesn't match. I suppose this isn't a big deal, but for someone like me it is a big deal. I love matching PIDs! Is there a way that the computer could recommend the Membership Record be kept rather than the one created from personal files?
I hope I have explained sufficiently. If not, please contact me.
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Re Searching & Jaleen Jensen Walker 1We are passing your comment along to the development team. Thank you for your expertise and observation.
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