Thanks to everyone who responded. Yes, it was much easier to just unlink the one set of parents (as there were no other ancestors) and then to add the correct set of parents (who had the ancestors entered) to the child (and the many descendants). This was thinking outside of the box. I kept thinking "merge" because I knew I had the same individual in twice. And, all the notes and sources are intact for both the ancestors and descendants. This was so much easier than I anticipated. A giant thank you! Harriet