Mistakenly combined trees

Started by Private User on Saturday, March 30, 2013

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3/30/2013 at 3:17 PM

We've mistakenly combined two trees and can't figure out how to undo.

Two couples each named Al Bookbinder and Pearl Bookbinder are entirely unrelated but now combined.

My tree should have Al Bookbinder born in London c 1895, brother of Kitty Greenwood, child of Rosa and Jacob Yankel: Albert Jack (WRONG PARENTS) Bookbinder. Jacqueline and Robert are his children. Managed by David Greenwood.

The Pearl Bookbinder he is currently listed as married to -- with 242 relatives -- is not his wife, but is the other Pearl, managed by Carol Fuchs Halperin. Mark belongs with that family child.

Private User

3/30/2013 at 3:33 PM

The worse thing you can do after making a bad merge is to resolve eventually data conflicts and even worse renaming profiles and cutting profile connections, because that information is needed to reconstruct one of the profiles. That is what I call destroying someone else's tree to fix your own.

What you usually do is to add a sibling with the data of the merged-in profile and then distribute spouses and children before you cut and connect the "twins" to the correct parents.

Did you merge the parents as well?

Anyhow, I am currently not at my main computer with a big display and good internet connection, so someone else have to help you.

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