Description of Error - 202: Parents are same

This person's mother and father are the same person.

Content of info column: Empty

Possible Causes

Accidentally adding a father also as the mother, or accidentally adding a mother also as the father. It could be also a result of incorrect merge.

Action Steps

Incorrect parent should be deleted or replaced with the correct one.

Error Status

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Technical Stuff

In a relation the father must have a Wikitree ID different from that of the mother. It is checked for all profiles with public tree and defined both parent-child relations.

Suggestion reports

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