Chang the "Resulting Person"
I'm looking at a Merge for MQWQ-3XB and PW9T-FVX. mqwq-3xb has the right info for birth place but not a date. Pw9t-fvx has the right date but not place. Because I can not pick both, I have to go to the resulting person's detail page after the merge and fix the missing data. It would be great if I could do the fix at same time I Merge the two.
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@HJ Harvey Robbins Actually, during the merge process at steps 8 and 9, you choose what information should be saved or deleted from the surviving person in the merge. Watch this video for how to merge
If you decide the information on the right is wrong or you moved the wrong information you click Undo so that only the information you want is on the right.
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Your request has been made by multiple users every few months ever since merging was introduced in Family Tree years ago. I'm just another user, but my impressions as to why this has never been implemented are twofold.
First to restate your request.
- You have duplicate John Smiths.
- One has birth information of 14 March 1825, Denver.
- The other has birth information 25 November 1826, Los Angeles.
- You want the resulting person to have birth information 14 March 1825, Los Angeles.
- You would like to make this edit during the merge.
First off, it has been a reply to past requests that the birth date/place information's basic structure in Family Tree is as a single chunk. To split them durning a merge would probably require a major overhaul and would probably be a low priority since things do work well the way they are now for everything else.
Secondly, they might feel that if the two possible duplicates have such a discrepancy, there probably needs to be more preliminary work to make sure they really are duplicates and to get data errors fixed before merging rather than during.
I will say that your requested feature has come up most often in the past for the situation in which one of the clear duplicates has only a birth date and the other has only a birth place and both of them are correct. The survivor can only have one or the other and the then missing piece of information has to be added manually.
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