Merging a living person with one who is deceased
My sister dies a few years ago. She is listed as a child of my parents. so far so good.
She is also listed as a living child of my parents.
The system says I cannot merge the two because one is living and one is not.
Does not make sense.
I happen to visit the Family History Library earlier today. The person helping me merged these two records. Why could he do it and I could not. Why are they not yet merged when I look at the family?
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No, you cannot merge a living person with a deceased person. You have to mark the living copy of the person deceased first then you can merge them.
I don't have an explanation as to why it looked like the merge was completed at the Family Search Center today but are not showing as merged now. Are you sure that the duplicate did not show up after the merge? That you merged two copies with two different IDs and there is has been actually a third one with yet a different ID that now also needs to be merged?
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