Family tree of Albert Einstein has mode only for reading

eska · February 26

There are three profiles of Albert Einstein (LZNC-TDG, G3Q7-Z6T, G9YB-BTX) in one family tree. Duplicate profiles cannot be merged.

Can it be fixed?

Alan E. Brown · February 26

Of those three profiles, two of them are read-only. As explained in the help article What are read-only records in Family Tree?, no changes can be made (by regular users) to read-only profiles, and that includes merges.

As that article further explains, the only way you can suggest that such changes be made is to contact Support. The G9YB-BTX profile is particularly weak — in my opinion, whichever administrator marked it as read-only made a very poor choice, and marking two competing profiles for a famous person as read-only is a questionable practice. The team that works on read-only records seems to have quite limited resources, so don't get your hopes up, but you could certainly bring this situation to their attention.

Chances are that even if the data administrators clean this up so that only one read-only profile remains, someone will eventually foolishly create yet another editable profile for Albert Einstein, wasting a lot of their time and time for every other contributor to that profile, which will eventually have to get merged by data administrators. It's a pity that people waste so much time on famous people they are not related to — their time would be much better spent on researching their own family.