Merging Duplicate People In Ancestry
When you merge people in ancestry then it’s up to you which facts and relationships to keep and which to remove or delete. So, the best option is merging duplicate people in ancestry. This article will guide you with proper guidance how to merge people in ancestry family tree without any hassle.
There are some steps to merging duplicate people first finding duplicate people, make sure the people is duplicate, and then merge people. Here, we will tell you all the information step by step.
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Finding Duplicate People
Please follow the given steps to find duplicate people.
- First, do ancestry login and go to your family tree.
- Then in the toolbar on the left, click the find button.
- After this, click on list of all people.
- Check the list of all the people for duplicate. By default there are 20 people are listed per page. If you want to see more names then use the left and right arrows in the bottom right corner to change pages.
- When you find duplicate people, click on the people name to view their profile.
This is how you can find duplicate people in the ancestry family tree.
Make Sure Duplicate People Are Duplicates
Sometimes when biologically related people marry each other they are their relatives show up as duplicate in the tree. All this happen because they have many roles in the family and that roles show in the family tree as duplicate. Before merging duplicate people make sure that the people are duplicates.
To check duplicate people open your family tree and click one of the duplicate people. Click on the profile. After this copy the number after /person from the URL. Then click on view tree button to back to your family tree. Repeat this process with the second version of the same person.
Compare the both numbers. If the number is differing it means both are different. But if the number are same it means you need to merge them.
Merging Duplicate People
To merge duplicate people follow the given steps.
- Go to your family tree and click on the duplicate person.
- Go to the person profile.
- In the top right corner click on tools option and then choose merge with duplicate.
This is how you can easily merge duplicate people in ancestry family tree without any hassle.
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