perfect? No. But one of the best things that you can do if
answer it for you. Connect with us on Twitter @FHFanatics or
information that you're trying to submit is already a
pedigree resource file or through their own gedcom files
help to correlate this information. Now, is it
there's plenty of work to do on merging individuals in Family
have all the complete information and have that can
family history who may have already submitted information
necessarily try to sort it all out themselves. They wanted to
descended from several other people who have been doing
that is the potential for 1000 duplicates individuals to be
individuals, that could take hours to check particularly if
marriage, and death records throughout the United States,
this information was extracted from record sets like birth,
International Geneological Index, the IGI. Now, a lot of
Family Tree, put it in the comments below and we'll try to
gedcom file. Now, I think that FamilySearch is limited to no
in the last 25 years there's a good chance that the
on Facebook, Family History Fanatics where we can interact
Tree. You have any questions about merging individuals in
the difference was is there was no effort made to merged people
more than a thousand people gedcom file right now but still
evaluate these duplicate records and merging them
together. Like I said, I personally estimate that about
you're just getting started is to start learning how to
you would be able to have less data resources put to the
two thirds of the database is duplicate individuals. So,
duplicate all of that information got dumped into the
about a gedcom file that has more than a few dozen
gedcoms into the Family Tree. Ideally, you would be searching
Family Tree and the goal behind it was is they didn't want to
to FamilySearch through either the ancestral file or the
crowd sources, allow the millions of people who are
computer trying to solve all these problems that may not
working on Family Tree to merge things themselves because then
you're in the thousands or tens of thousands of people in your
individual so the next thing that was put in was called the
added so if you think about your family history if you are
lots of people, you can start to have lots of copies of the
same person. Next, another set of database was the
that you only upload unique people but if you're talking
might have been related to the same people and so there might
and before and when you start to multiply that by lots and
before there was the computers that we have today that could
through the Family Tree first to make sure that there's no
duplicate set of people from the IGI and finally, one thing
separate program but also kind of related to ancestral file
together in the in the pedigree resource file. So, if you
at least three copies of everything two generations back
generation charts that were put together and sort of was a
duplicates between your gedcom file and the Family Tree so
files, some of the ancestor file and maybe even from some
probably already represented in some of the pedigree resource
of the church member records. So, you've added another
that FamilySearch Allow it allowed people to upload their
Canada, and Europe but again, a lot of these people were
professionals that were trying to merge things on this.
submitted something and your cousin submitted something and
and while ancestral file tried to merge all these people it
that's the case but not only that different church members
pedigree resource file and this was basically a collection of
wasn't always successful because you didn't always have
pedigree charts the four generation charts and five
enough information to say that yes this was the same
be able to match and keep this sort so this was all done by
your other cousin submitted something, there's very likely
since it was church members that were submitting this
been in because they were part of the church records and
Christ of Latter day Saints who built out their genealogical
have been multiple copies now that had been submit to this
things that ancestral file started with is they had
whole file which contained millions and millions of
information well their information might have already
not going to get up to the billions that there is right
individuals was put in now one thing you may notice is that
start. That still only is several million members. That's
now. The second thing that was put in was what's called the
hand needless to say there was some errors in that but this
However, this was all done back in the 50s and 60s and 70s
information and then submitted that to the church. One of the
submissions of genealogists and members of the Church of Jesus
ancestral file. Now, the ancestral file was built from
member of the LDS Church you had your information put into
really it came into you know a half a dozen different record
their information was put into the tree. Well that's good
the tree. But if your ancestors were members of the LDS Church
sets. So let's go through those. First off was the church
records. The membership records of the church. So if you were a
for each person who's ever lived. Now, in order to start
this, they started with all of the data that the Church of
duplicates but where did these come from and that's a little
Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints had collected over the
last hundred and 50 years. All this ideological research and
need to be merged at some point so that we don't have
bit trickier question to answer. When FamilySearch
edit and the goal was to create one world tree with one record
basically designed to be open source so that everybody could
Search Family Tree and the rest of em are duplicates that all
Family Tree came online in two thousand and twelve, it was
I've done in Family Tree is approximately two thirds of
that are duplicates so there's really probably only about 400
to 500 million unique individuals in the Family
that simple. Right now, Family Tree has about 1. 2 billion
with the easy question first. What can we do to fix that? We
individuals in them. Now, my estimate based off of the work
can merge these individuals whenever we find them. It's
there are multiple copies. In some cases, dozens or hundreds
of copies of the same person all in Family Tree. Now, why is
should know that there are tons and tons of duplicates why is
Howdy, I'm Andy Lee with Family History Fanatics. Today, I
that? And what can we do to fix that? Well, I'm going to start
because as you're going through, you may find that
Family Tree. Now, duplicates can be a frustrating thing
want to talk about the duplicates that you can find in
with you and respond to your comments. that
Duplicates if you deal with FamilySearch Family Tree you