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September 2023 Research Tip of the Month: Simple Merging Not Working on Ancestry tree

09/05/2023 11:14 AM | Ron Gallagher (Administrator)

September 2023 Research Tip of the Month

TOPIC: Simple Merging Not Working on Ancestry tree

Vol. VI, No. 9 – September, 2023

Contributor: Susan Greenberg, JGSC Member

I keep 10 trees, instead of one large tree on Ancestry. One day I opened one of my trees and was shocked that this small tree, with only 110 people listed, had grown by about 25 more individuals! When looking at a tree on Ancestry, one can obviously find duplicate names added. This can happen easily when accepting hints, no matter how careful. To remedy this issue, Ancestry has a feature to merge people with the same name, same parents, so you do not lose any facts...

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