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I have merged 2 individuals. Both dissappeared from my database, and a person from another datset was displayed.

 

To aid investigation, I repeated the process, and logged my actions:

  1. I selected an individual 1:11005 and chose the 'merge 2 individuals option' and selected 1:24108
  2. I was offered the choice of 1:24108 and 2:24108. (Why is this choice always offered when merging between datasets is not permitted?)
  3. I chose 1:24108
  4. The merge screens were displayed. 2:15876 was on the left and 1:24108 was on the right
  5. I cancelled
  6. I repeated steps 1-3
  7. This time 1:11005 was displayed on the left and 1:24108 on the right
  8. I checked the name of 1:11005, unchecked the name of 1:24108 and merged
  9. 2:15876 was displayed in the person details not 1:11005
  10. I selected 'Last Viewed person'. 1:11005 was displayed.
  11. I selected F2. 2:15876, not 1:11005 was displayed in the Expanded Picklist

I tried again:

  1. I selected 1:11010,
  2. After this person was displayed, I hit F2 and selected the following entry 1:24852
  3. Having checked that this was the correct person with which I intended to merge, I selected 'Last Viewed person'.
  4. 2:5210 was displayed.
  5. I selected 'Last Viewed person'. Nothing happened. I repeated this several times but 2:5210 remained displayed
  6. I hit F2 and was returned to 1:11010 in the Expanded Picklist, not 2:5210
  7. I selected 1:11010 from the picklist and this person was displayed.
  8. I selected 'Last Viewed person'. Nothing happened. I repeated this several times but 1:11010 remained displayed
  9. I hit F2 and was returned to 2:5210 in the Expanded Picklist, not 1:11010
  10. I scrolled through the Expanded Picklist to find 1:11010
  11. It wasn't there. But 1:11005 (the missing ID from my first merge) was there, with the Name from 1:11010. And when I checked the tags, the data belonged to neither the original 1:11005 nor 1:11010 !!!

 

Clearly, there's major problems here.

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Not yet. I've held off in case someone from WG wanted to experiment - I've lots more mergers to do.

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Hi John,

 

just FYI I have discovered another problem when merging individuals (and already reported thgis bug to WG):

 

There is person A with several events

 

There is person B with several events and some where person B is indicated as a witness (or role) not using person B's "primary" name but an alias name like married name or another spelling.

 

When you merge person B into person A (A is at left, B at right), the information "B witnessed event ..." is lost.

 

Regards

Helmut

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