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[Klaus Yde]

I have just made my first merge with two test files. A copy of my original project and a copy of a tree got from My Heritage. About 100 posts from MH. I checked them before the merge and expected to get about 25 new persons added. I had read chapter 14 about merging several times before the merge and thought that it would be piece of cake - Of course it wasn't . I got this result (see picture below) with a lot of coloured arrows between duplicates and a complete jumbled tree.

I have tried to find some help about those arrows - and how to to resolve them but without any results? I found mentions of ribbons - but it wasn't very helpful

Is there any tools build in FH that I can use to resolve the duplicates branches?

Is the some way to pause and save a merge operation in progress if the merge is with many posts and You need to close the program?

Kind regards Klaus Yde

[Valkrider]

There is a plugin called 'Find duplicate Individuals' in the plugin store that will run through your project and suggest duplicates. You can then use the Merge/Compare Records in the Edit menu tab to then sort out your issues.

Do a full backup before you start this operation just in case.

[tatewise]

Although the coloured ribbons link "duplicates" they are not actually duplicate records, but duplicate displays of boxes of the same Individual, so Colin's advice is misleading.

The most probable explanation is unmerged Family records.

So you have not performed the Merge on all the tabs across the top of the Merge dialogue, but only on the first Individuals tab. It is a common mistake, which is why the advice tries to emphasise it.

So you need to restore your main Project backup that hopefully you made beforehand.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to pause a Merge part way through.
However, you may be able split your MH Project into major branches and merge one branch at a time.

[Klaus Yde]

Thanks - I will try.

Kind regards

Klaus Yde