Merge a specific ID

LegacyUser

Brea Mefford said: Often the person that I need to merge together doesn't come up as a possible duplicate. It would be nice if I could just enter the ID # of the person that I need to merge, so I can quickly do the merge.

LegacyUser

Shanna Jones said: There is a way to force Family Tree to display two records as duplicates, even though we don’t yet have and advanced search for possible duplicates. You end up putting the ID numbers of the two people in the URL.

Copy, paste and edit this example into the URL
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=m...

Replace the ABCD-123 with one of your ID numbers and ABCD-456 with the other one. Just make sure first, that they really are a match.

Christian P. Gyssels

the link does work anymore:

https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=merge&person=K8DM-XBG&otherPerson=SYQH-Z1B

Gordon Collett

It is unlikely that anything from 2012 works the way it used to! There have been dozens of major updates and thousands of minor updates to the site since then.

To merge two people who do not appear under the Possible Duplicates but who are duplicates, copy the ID of one of them, go to the detail page for the other person, then use the Merge By ID function found in the right hand column: