It looks like we need to undo a merge

Question

While working on trying to reconnect a GEDCOM which got disconnected somehow, I came across a profile which shows as being connected to the main tree (and I got all excited, because I'm working on the Connectors Challenge too), but it turns out that there was a merge between two people with the same name. (Barron-974 was christened in Cornwall, and Barron-1370 was born in Maryland, which would have been quite a trick if they were actually the same person).

So I tried to undo the merge, only to get an error message that it couldn't be done, and that I needed to copy all the data for one of the profiles into yet another new profile. There was also a message saying that a tool to make that easier is on the way. What's the status of that?

Greg

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I've done some hunting on G2G for similar issues and even through March of this year, it appears that there is no way to completely reverse a merge. Most answers point directly to creating a new profile manually.

Answer 1

Greg,

There are several of us that have expertise in this issue...we had some vandals years ago and we ended up with a lot of bad merges.   So, if you want help separating the two and creating the new profile....let me know.

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Thanks, Robin.

I wouldn't mind help in separating the profiles, but my real question is about the status of the automated tool to do that. If it's imminent, then I can wait to  do the fix. If it's going to be ready "someday", then I might as well do the job manually.

Greg

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Greg, Can you cut and paste the URL for the discussion you are referring to?   Where someone said there was a tool, or a tool being developed...if I see that I might be able to figure out what was happening at the time and what tool was being discussed.

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Robin, it's not a discussion. It's an error message that pops up when I go to the merge and try to undo it. The result I get is at:

http://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:Restore&page_id=4275834&restoreId=6688475

Greg

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I finally decided to try manually recreating a profile based on the original Barron-1370, and I think I may have found a real duplicate at Barron-2101, so I aborted creating yet another profile. I sent a private message to the manager of Barron-2101, pointing him to the original data for Barron-1370 to see if it looks like a match to him. (It does to me, but this bad match has messed things up so much that I'm kind of cautious about what I do to "fix" it.)

Somebody has also been trying to "fix" Barron-974, only by taking out all the English data (which was the original).

Greg