Lost on merging and matches

Question

I need some help as I'm getting lost. I am finding links with  someone within here. I have to merge now my second name with one of his and I have more to come. How do I not have to creat it all the way? Do I just click the pop up box with the correct info and then hit add? Do I have to finish filling out the information. I need to now merge lohr - 516 & 477

Comments

Hi, Alicia --

You might enjoy working through the tutorials here: New Member How-To

This help page, specifically, talks about what to do if you're creating a profile and discover that it's already here: Adding Family

Answer 1

Alicia, it seems that you are talking about the list of "Close matches that already exist on WikiTree" you get when adding a person.

E.g.: You have added Joseph Lohr-516 as the father of Michael Lohr-515. But there already was a profile for Joseph Lohr (Joseph Henry Lohr-477).

Here is the page to add or change the father of Michael Lohr-515:

https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Lohr-515&action=editfamily&w=father

If you enter "First Name at Birth:" = Joseph, "Last Name at Birth:" = Lohr and "Birth Date:" = 1792 You´ll see:

" Second, compare close matches that already exist on WikiTree."

And below, a table with the list of possible matches.

The first one is Lohr-516 (The one you added) and the second one is Lohr-477 (The duplicate you found).

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When you see a list like this, and there is an existing profile for the person you are adding you have to connect the existing profile instead of creating a new one:

"If any of the following appear to be a match do not proceed to create the new profile. Connect the existing profile instead."

You can connect the existing profile just by clicking on the link [set as (Father in this case)].

"If there is no match above, mark the checkbox by names that are close. This will save a "rejected match" so that others do not confuse the two people in the future."

(Please do not save any changes to this page. It is only for demonstration purposes).

 

Hope you find useful this information.

Answer 2

Hi Alicia. On the bottom of the page on your Joseph Lohr you will see a section saying Matches and Merges and a pending merge for Joseph Lohr with the other one. On the assumption that Brent Amos has approved the merge all you need to do is click on merge and follow the directions.