 Welcome to Wikitree. This is a short tutorial on merging. Why merge? There are several reasons why you may want to merge. Perhaps you have inadvertently entered the same person twice. Maybe someone else's tree intersects with yours and you can join the trees by merging or combining the entries for the same people in each tree. This is the Wikitree ethos by the way and one of the things I most like about Wikitree. So let's get to it. Before merging you will need to know the Wikitree IDs for the two people you are going to merge. I have two browser tabs open here for some people I have selected to merge. Let's click on the first one. In the browser address bar above your Wikitree window you can see the URL of this profile page. The Wikitree ID for this profile is the part after the final slash. In this case it is curwen-49. Please note that the case is important. A capital followed by small letters and a hyphen or dash or minus symbol and the number 49. You will need to take note of this profile ID while we get the other one. I have another tab open adjacent for the other duplicate person that I want to merge. Just as in the last example I want to note the last part of the URL which in my merging example is curwen-70. Now we need to go to the merging page. You will need to move the mouse pointer to the top right of your browser window over the word add. A drop-down menu will appear and you can click on to matches and mergers. Now you can see two boxes in which to place the two ID numbers you noted earlier. We always place the ID with the higher number in the top box and the one with the lower number in the lower box. The top one will be merged into the ID of the lower one. To merge these two profiles just click on to the merge button. If you are a manager of both these profiles or you are on the trusted list of them you then have an opportunity to compare the details. If you are not on the trusted list for one or both of these profiles a request to merge will be sent to the profile managers instead of you seeing the compare page. In this case we are on the trusted list for both profiles. You may want to scroll down a bit to see the confirm merge button at the bottom of the page. On the compare page you can check or uncheck boxes to select the correct information for the merged profile. When you are happy with it just click on to the confirm merge button at the bottom of the page. After you have clicked the confirm merge button you will see a confirmation page which gives you various navigation options. You may need to tidy up the merged profile particularly in the biography section. So I'm going to select the option to go to George Kerwin's profile page and then I will click on to the edit tab and tidy up the biography section. That concludes this tutorial. Keep a watch out for other tutorials on other aspects of WikiTree. Thank you.