Tour Merging Duplicate Records Details on Merging Please understand that in most cases, the merge process is exactly that. . . Rarely do you just combine two people together. Most often it involves connections to other individuals such as children, spouses, siblings and parents. It is important to properly handle the surrounding links, and the links surrounding the links, and so on.
Legacy is an expert at the merge process.
When you tell the program to combine two people, Legacy looks around to see who else should be considered for a merge. It then automatically adds them into the process. This goes on until all the associated links have been handled. You may start out thinking that you are only going to merge two individuals and end up merging an entire line. This is the only way to do it correctly.