Merging duplicate families when one is missing a parent
If there are only one or two children, it is often easiest to just remove the the children, one-at-a-time from the family that has a missing parent. (Check that both listings for the child have the same ID, so that no one gets lost.) Once the children are removed, the incomplete marriage relationship normally disappears.
My first instinct in this situation is to add the missing spouse by copying and pasting the ID. In my experience, this will take you through the steps, but bring up an error message in the end. (Sometimes the message will say that the relationship already exists, but sometimes it is just a generic message,)
My solution is the add the spouse by creating a new record with just the given name, then merging this into the existing record. This may not be intuitive, but but it works quickly and easily. It also avoids the risk of losing any duplicate records of the children.
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It is important to always, when the relationships are correct, just duplicated, to use your solution as outlined in the last paragraph to merge the relationships, even if there is just one child.
Due to the fact that information in Family Tree came from many older databases and from when rules were different, the procedure in the first paragraph, removing a child, is the most common cause for a blue box on the ordinance page on the sealing to parents line containing the phrase "This sealing is valid but..." instead of parents names.
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