There's a lot of endogamy in my Mother's family, so one of the things that I do is pull up the button and search for people's names in my tree before I add them. It's a couple of extra steps, but it has stopped a whole lot of duplicates and even a few triplicates. Also, as a cleanup, I'll pull up the tree name list, and just search out random names, like "Richard" or "Charles", and if I see any duplicates, I go to work. It's something that can be done pretty much anytime.
Hi, I find your site very helpful. I have run into something I have been unable to rectify even with several calls to My Heritage. My tree has my maternal grandfather and grandmother listed three times with the same children, (I did not enter all these, only once, but somehow they were added two more times to my tree) therefore making one set of grandparents fine, but the other two listed as step grandparents and therefore listing same named children step sisters and stepbrothers of the same named siblings.. The only solution that was given to me was to delete my whole tree ( 5000 members) and start all over!😢 Any suggestions? This has messed up the relationship information for that whole side of my tree
Sorry I dont have an answer to your problem. But, this sort of duplication I think happens when you accept smart matches and just add the info to your tree. I have had it happen to me, but I was able to delete the duplicates one by one as it wasn't too far into the tree.
Thank you, Lisa! This video was an excellent reminder.
There's a lot of endogamy in my Mother's family, so one of the things that I do is pull up the button and search for people's names in my tree before I add them. It's a couple of extra steps, but it has stopped a whole lot of duplicates and even a few triplicates. Also, as a cleanup, I'll pull up the tree name list, and just search out random names, like "Richard" or "Charles", and if I see any duplicates, I go to work. It's something that can be done pretty much anytime.
Hi, I find your site very helpful. I have run into something I have been unable to rectify even with several calls to My Heritage. My tree has my maternal grandfather and grandmother listed three times with the same children, (I did not enter all these, only once, but somehow they were added two more times to my tree) therefore making one set of grandparents fine, but the other two listed as step grandparents and therefore listing same named children step sisters and stepbrothers of the same named siblings.. The only solution that was given to me was to delete my whole tree ( 5000 members) and start all over!😢 Any suggestions? This has messed up the relationship information for that whole side of my tree
Sorry I dont have an answer to your problem. But, this sort of duplication I think happens when you accept smart matches and just add the info to your tree. I have had it happen to me, but I was able to delete the duplicates one by one as it wasn't too far into the tree.