G2G: Question on George Dewey (Fox) Jr. (1926-2014)

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Regarding GD (Fox) Jr. ...

Somehow I made GD Fox Jr a brother to George D Fox Jr.  I have tried to merge  these individuals as they are the same person but for some reason the website will not allow me to merge.  OR I may not know the right way to do so.  If anyone can step in and merge these individuals I would appreciate it.  I am new and still learning this very difficult website.  It doesn't help that I am an older individual.

WikiTree profile: GD Fox
in Genealogy Help by G2G-1 (1.3k points)
retagged by Living Cayley

2 Answers

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Have requested a merge, you should receive a message and follow through as Profile Manger and accept.

This should work as you are the Profile Manager. If not, reply back here.

Cheers Rich
by Owl (144k points)

I tried everything I know to merge these two and nothing happens.  I never get past the request to merge screen.

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It looks like you created a WikiTree account with the ID Fox-10791 in 2017 and used that account to create a profile for your father at Fox-10792. Your old account is on the Trusted List for your father's profile, but your new account probably isn't, which is preventing you from approving the merge or editing the profile at all because it is set to private.

In order to fix this, you will need to have admin merge your new account into your old one. To do this, send an email to the address listed under number 2 here and tell them that you created the account Fox-27989 without realizing that you already had an account at Fox-10791 and need to get them merged. After that, you should easily be able to merge the two profiles for your father.

by Owl (35.8k points)

Thank you so much.  Just 30 min ago I found where I did have another account I started in 2017.  Thank you for finding this and letting me know how to fix it.

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