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Merging Individuals in Family Search(FS) Family Tree
This page offers two Guides to finding duplicates and merging them in Family Tree. The Merging Duplicates Handout presents the steps of finding duplicates using Possible Duplicates, the elements of merging information and options, with FT images. The Merging Exercise provides a hands-on experience in performing 6 specific merges of duplicate individuals in a fake database known as Instructor Materials - Simple Sandbox (Instructor Materials). The Simple Sandbox offers a safe place to practice in fixing family relationships by replacing and removing persons without making changes to your ancestors in Family Tree.



Merging Duplicates Handout
A handout giving detailed instructions for Merging Duplicates in Family Tree can be found, along with other valuable FT Handouts and Guides, on the Riverton FamilySearch Library website.

Use of Instructor Materials - Simple Sandbox

 * The Instructor Materials - Simple Sandbox is a fake database featuring Robert and Ann, members of their family, and other individuals. This database contains incorrect relationships. All of this is intended to provide a safe place to practice more complicated tasks in Family Tree, such as finding and merging duplicates and fixing incorrect relationships.
 * The first time you go into the Simple Sandbox (Instructor Materials), click on Simple Sandbox First Account. You will be asked to sign-in with your Family Tree username and password. It will take a few minutes to generate your account.
 * To avoid difficulty with the sandbox, no more than five persons should click to make an account at one time. Wait a couple of minutes for the next group of five to create their accounts.
 * Every time after the first. click on Simple Sandbox Reset Your Account. You will be given a new fake database. The given names that appear in each family are the same as before (Robert, Ann, Rachel, etc.) But the surnames, dates and places are different.
 * Activities done in the Simple Sandbox can be done repeatedly and do not affect your ancestors' information in FT.
 * Before any changes are made in the Sandbox, it is assumed that the correct relationships in Robert and Ann's family have been established through careful research.

Note: When finding and merging duplicates in the real Family Tree database, thorough research should always precede and determine what changes are made to your families.

Merging Exercise
This simplified Merging Exercise sheet is for use in repeating/practicing merging duplicate individuals found in the fake database called the Simple Sandbox. At present there is no STEPS with Pictures Handout that goes through the six merges presented in this exercise. Click here to practice merging in Robert and Ann's family. To repeat these merging exercises '''Always click Simple Sandbox RESET YOUR ACCOUNT. '''

Other FT Entry/intermediate Task Handouts (STEPS with Pictures)
1. Putting Photos and Documents as Memories in FamilySearch Family Tree 2. Attaching FamilySearch (FS) Records to Family Tree Using the Source Linker 3. Putting Documents as Sources in FamilySearch Family Tree