How to Handle Duplicates and Intermarried Cousins in Your Family Tree

Have you got cousins marrying cousins in your family tree or duplicate profiles that have snuck into your tree in ways you don’t quite understand? This can quickly turn your family tree into a tangled mess. Learn how duplicates most often happen and how to prevent it. Then, we’ll walk through how to identify and merge duplicate people in your Ancestry tree, resolve "pedigree collapse" without losing vital records or breaking your tree's structure, and clean up your data. You’ll be merging with confidence and keeping your research accurate, no matter how many times your branches cross!