Project Protected Merging

Question

In the "All Pending Merges waiting for Action", there is a request to merge Uldrick Kleyn (Kleyn-2) and Uldrick Kleyn (Kleyn-8).  They both have the same information but ID# 8 is Project Protected, Do not merge.  The ID# 2 is not noted.  They need to be merged.  Does ID#2 need to have the Project Protected note?

 

Please advise.

Answer 1

This is a new Nederland project, heed the warning not to merge, you could not merge anyway as the merge would need to go into the lowest LNAB and members cannot merge away from a PPP. I see the merge was rejected anyway.

Comments

Thanks for your patience with these profiles. We just implemented a new system* to try to bring some order to the merging of New Netherland Settler families. A dozen duplicate profiles, each with the LNAB spelled or styled differently, is not unusual because many of these families went from patronymics only, to where they were from (van Meteren, for example), to a mix within the same generation, and French refugees having records made in Holland using Dutch conventions, Dutch conventions being Anglicized after 1674, etc., etc.   

Patronymics alone can give us, for instance, Gerritse, Gerretse, Garritsz, Garitsen just to start. As I said, we just established a system to deal with this (in March) and right now have a massive backlog. We're making progress, and I hope that within 30 or 60 days we'll have a healthy collection of final WikiTree IDs agreed upon and new-found duplicates can be quickly merged into them.  

Cheers, Liz  

*See the category pages for basics & details (with links to the category pages) at the freespace page: New Netherland Settlers - Approval_System