tag 680695 + moreinfo thanks Hi Peter, This seems to be two bugs in one! Please consider filing a separate bug report for the occasional crash when merging (if it is still happening to you). We would need more information about exactly what was being merged, and any error reports to track down that problem. Back to the feature request. I am not sure it is a good idea to merge families. Although there is talk that the idea of a family consisting of two parents of opposite sex is either a little outdated, or not even applicable to some cultures where a man can have many wives, if you merged two families then you may end up with more than two parents, and possibly many duplicate children. Do you mean that you would like to be able to take all the people from two separate families, merge the two fathers, merge the two mothers, and merge any children from both families that seem to be the same - in one step? Should all the family events be merged as well at the same time (e.g. the marriage)? You would still need to do some unpicking after this, as there may have been some children that are the same person, but had slightly different names, or birth/baptism dates. And there may be duplicates in the events attached to each person in the family, or any duplicate parents of the parents in the new family. Personally, when I am in this situation, I prefer to work one person at a time. It can be very confusing when you bring two people's research together in one tree. Once each person is separately merged and all events sorted out, then you can just remove each person from one of the duplicate families, and then delete it. Let me know what you think. I will be happy to forward your feature request to the upstream authors. However, they are all volunteers, and if it is a well thought out request it stands more chance of being taken forward. Regards, Ross
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