Home› Welcome to the FamilySearch Community!› FamilySearch Help› Family Tree

How do I merge duplicate records when the sex is different?

ME Doran
ME Doran mod
January 30, 2021 in Family Tree

Louvia Pope LRSN-LJX and Louvie Pope 0JSR=LP4 seem to be the same person. How can I merge these records. Ordinances have been completed for both.

0

Best Answer

  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    March 17, 2021 Answer ✓

    The above comment was accurate a year or so ago. But an update in Family Tree last year makes the process much simpler.

    Simply determine the correct gender and correct the one that is in error. Any ordinances that are no longer valid because of the correction will immediately no longer show in Family Tree but will show as available.

    Merge the two records.

    You do not need to notify anyone. Just go ahead and get the records correctly merged if they really are the same person. Be cautious because in some languages the difference between the -a ending and the -e ending is the difference between female and male forms of the names. For example in Norwegian Helga is a girl and Helge is a boy. Are you certain these two are not twins? (I have not looked at their records.)

    0

Answers

  • NidaFL
    NidaFL ✭✭✭
    March 17, 2021

    When there is a record for both genders, but seems to be the same person. as in the case of Louvia Pope, if Ordinances have been completed for both genders, once sources validate the correct gender, then Family Search needs to be notified that Ordinances have been completed for incorrect gender.

    What do I do when temple ordinances were done for the wrong sex?

    The records can not be merged

    0
  • ME Doran
    ME Doran mod
    March 17, 2021 edited March 17, 2021

    @NidaLewis ,Based on this article, https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/what-happens-to-a-persons-ordinances-if-his-or-her-sex-is-changed-in-family-tree, it is no longer necessary to inform FamilySearch that the ordinances were completed for the wrong sex.

    0
Clear
No Groups Found

Categories

  • 22.6K All Categories
  • 355 1950 US Census
  • 45.9K FamilySearch Help
  • 91 Get Involved
  • 2.3K General Questions
  • 327 Family History Centers
  • 323 FamilySearch Account
  • 3.1K Family Tree
  • 2.5K Search
  • 3.6K Indexing
  • 430 Memories
  • 4.3K Temple
  • 250 Other Languages
  • 28 Community News
  • 5.3K Suggest an Idea
  • Groups