Very clear and understandable record
Today at RootsTech I found an incorrect merge on my husband's tree. The merge was made in 2022, so I was not able to undo it, but the change log clearly showed which records had been added with the incorrect merge. I was able to contact the person who made the merge with clarifying details, and he immediately agreed to correct the merge. This was a great success.
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It's great that the person who did the merge got back to you and is going to fix things. However, if he had not, you still could have corrected things yourself even though the merge was done on 2022. We can always reverse the effects of a merge even though we can rarely undo a merge.
Starting from the Merge Analysis view, click on the name of the deleted person:
This brings you to that profile:
where you can click on Restore Person. The restores the profile exactly as it was before the merge.
You then need to return to the profile for the surviving person and remove any information that was incorrectly added through the merge. That is the difference between Undo and Restore. If you can click on Undo Merge, then both profiles will be returned to their pre-merge state. If you have to click on Restore Person, only the deleted profile is returned to its pre-merge state because the program has no way of knowing if any editing done to the merged profile really belongs on the surviving profile or if it actually should have been to the deleted profile.
I've suggested, and still think it would be a good idea, to have a Restore Deleted Person button on the Merge Analysis view right next to the Undo Merge button since I suspect the Undo Merge button will only rarely be active. It would also be good to have a reminder pop up after restoring a profile that one needs to remember to correct the surviving profile as needed.
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(I didn't have a chance to listen to the Tree Integrity presentation at RootsTech until this afternoon. According to it, they are, in fact, working on adding a "Restore Deleted Person" button. https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/session/tree-integrity-protecting-your-research-in-familytree )
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