Comments on: Family Trees: We’re giving you control of family merges

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Thu, 12 May 2011 05:57:14 +0000

Bee Re: #53

Here is where I differ from most people. I never check any of the boxes to add anyone from a census to create a new person in my tree.

The name, DOB,etc. is already entered by hand before clicking search records- then I just attach the census as a source for the birth and it adds the residence event.

Yes- it takes longer; but I get to enter it the way I want it-including the word “County” after the county name.

By: long time user

long time user — Thu, 12 May 2011 05:02:59 +0000

#51 Bee:

It is possible to add a census as a source to part of a family; one or many in a family. You don’t always need BOTH parents. It depends what boxes were checked. Personally, I usually don’t check any other boxes until I take a look-see or I know I’m adding a totally new person. It is tricky.

And you can add children to one parent without the other being named.

Adding a missing parent’s name to a family with children; you will be asked to confirm/check that the new parent is the mother/father of existing children.

By: Karen B

Karen B — Thu, 12 May 2011 01:21:46 +0000

This is a nice feature, but one that would be even beter, is a way to combine duplicate people. I have the same couple listed 3 times, as I found 3 of their daughters married to other members of my family, but no way to combine once they were already listed.

By: BEE

BEE — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:09:05 +0000

I swear there are gremlins at work on these trees!
I thought I could give some advice on cleaning up duplicates, as I painstakingly did that with my trees when I realized this was a problem, but it was so long ago, I’ve forgotten how I did it.
While checking some names on my husband’s tree, I’m again finding duplicates, and I have no idea how they got there, as I am very careful when adding anything. I don’t “click” names from “hints”, and if a name sounds familiar, I check my list to see if I already have that person, besides cross-checking names census to census.
Also, I’m puzzled how a census can be attached to the father and children but not the mother, as she would have been needed to add the children in the first place, or the mother would have been listed as “unknown” {which is another pain in the neck, having to go to the “family tree” and add all children to both parents with the “someone already on tree” feature!} which means I must have added it, so why wasn’t it there?
I do realize that it’s just a “link” to the document, since I didn’t down-load/up-load it as I did for a direct ancestor.
So like the other posts about cleaning up duplicates – help!

By: Jessie Fyfe

Jessie Fyfe — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:27:29 +0000

I would like to know where I can find the answer to the questions about how to clean up the duplicates in my tree? I’ve read where many others have the same problem I have, but I’ve not seen an answer.
Thanks,
Jessie

By: edna

edna — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:30:35 +0000

I agree with trish. Also I think that there should be a way that we can tell if we put the information in our tree or copied it. I have duplicats in mine also. But to delete one you have to go and check it out to find the duplicate.
Also I think it would be helpful to have the answers to questions posted with the questions so we all can learn from it.

By: Susan Whitten

Susan Whitten — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:32:13 +0000

The new feature works well. Good Start! Now give us a merge feature as in Family Tree Maker. I have tried to delete duplicates as my tree is a MESS. Sometimes, this creates a disaster as an entire family may be deleted, and I have to start over. Please consider. Susan

By: Nira

Nira — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:42:32 +0000

Finally! Thank you so much!!!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 09 May 2011 23:46:29 +0000

Nice add on, thank you! What is an easy way to find all the duplicates I now have on my tree? Once found I can delete them one at a time, hopefully picking the correct one.

By: Karen Ganske

Karen Ganske — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:38:04 +0000

I was excited to see these features – thank you so much!