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You may have heard the poem by Robert  Frost two Woods diverged in yellow wood,   and sorry I could not travel both. Now in  genealogy when we've got two roads diverging,   that isn't always a good thing. And unfortunately  on FamilySearch we have a lot merging, and a lot   of times we need to unmerge. And sometimes that is  really intimidating for people and they don't know   how to do it. So it's all about that today, we're  talking about FamilySearch merging and unmerging.   How to do it correctly and how to solve your  problems that you have in your FamilySearch   tree. So I'm Aimee Cross and this is your  FamilySearch tutorial for the day. Let's hit it!  Alright, so right now I am in the FamilySearch  page on one of my ancestors. And this is the   new page they've been trying out. If you look  at this you can see the old page, it looks more   like what we were used to; but I'm going to use  the new person page because I think that's the   direction that they're going. All right, so when  you run into an ancestor and you discover that   there may be a duplicate for your ancestor,  it's not a bad thing to merge them; however,   stop! You need to do some things first before you  do it. You need to make sure that it is truly the   same person that you're merging. So we're going  to start with just examining a few things about   my person so that I can then evaluate whether this  merge should happen or shouldn't happen. A lot of   the problems in FamilySearch are because people  merge people that don't belong to be merged or   that shouldn't have been merged, that's the better  way to say it. So I'm looking at this William   Paston. We know he was born in about 1784 in  Yarmouth, England and we know that he had a wife,   Ann Buttle, and a number of children. The  children's birth dates are all kind of what   you would expect, so that's a good sign. And I'm  going to go up here to the sources right here, and   I want to look at the sources. So we have a source  of him in a marriage record. We have his marriage   and in England. And we see that his wife, his name  was spelled Taston instead of Paston, that's not   unusual, that's not a big deal, to Anne Buttle,  and he was married in 1801, which was right,   before the birth of his known children; so that's  looking good. I'm going to close this back up.   And then we're looking at, and these were inputted  by me, we're looking at him in the entry for,   um, for his various children. So we see Ann  Paston, we see Susanna Paston, Henry Buttle   Paston, who I'm related through, Elizabeth Paston,  Henry Samuel Paston, Samuel Benjamin Paston. So   we'll go back and look at those details; and  those are in fact the...