Where is the unmerge button?

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JoAnn Burgi said: I'm struggling with the new "Latest Changes, Show All" feature. I have been using FamilySearch from the beginning and this change is very difficult to use. It is not intuitive and the green box around the merge was very helpful, but it has been removed. It is difficult to know how to undo an incorrect merge for experienced users and will be nearly impossible for a beginner. I hope you can change this so it is more user friendly.

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gasmodels said: Things operate very similar to what they did before the change. If no changes have been made to the surviving record after the merge you can go to the change log and the merge will be the top item. on the right hand side of that block is a Restore link that allows you to undo the merge. For earlier merges, you need to click on the deleted name in the merge block and open the partial person page for the deleted person and use the "restore" link just as you did before. I don't really see any difference from what the old change list provided except "unmerge" has been replaced by "restore"

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Gordon Collett said: Give it a week or two and I think you will not miss the green box at all. The merges are still very easy to pick out. You can see all four on this list in less than five seconds:



Here they are:



Just keep your eyes in that center column as you scroll down and you won't miss a thing.

I think the new formatting of the change log is a good change in that it makes it very clear, much more so than before, that you cannot remove any information added via a merge from a surviving individual in the change log. You never could, but this a great reminder that if you need to remove information placed on a person from an incorrect merge, you cannot do it from here. It also reinforces that when you restore a deleted person from a merge, you are only working on that deleted person, not the surviving person.

The only thing I don't like is that they have camouflaged that peoples names are links. Since you restore a person by going to that person, you have to realized that you click on the name to open the summary card, jump to that person, and restore that person from there. Quick and easy once you understand links are not blue anymore:





As I said, restoring a person is easy, just go to that person's page and restore him or her. Repairing the surviving person from an incorrect merge has never been easy and restoring never did that automatically aside from things permanently attached to a specific ID such as temple ordinances and memories.

With this style change, it is more important than ever to each people to click on absolutely every piece of text and every icon and picture on every page once in a while just to see what will happen today.