# Duplicate Citations vs Tags or "Uses"

**URL:** <https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/duplicate-citations-vs-tags-or-uses/6475>\
**Category:** RootsMagic\
**Tags:** tip\
**Created:** [March 1, 2023, 10:50pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/duplicate-citations-vs-tags-or-uses/6475 "2023-03-01T22:50:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![TomH](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/tomh/32/30_2.png) [@TomH](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/TomH)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/duplicate-citations-vs-tags-or-uses/6475/10 "2023-03-02T21:45:34Z")

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@DaveW, you had the same problem a year ago which you correctly analysed then.

> [@Merging Citations - Caution!](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/merging-citations-caution/3550/1):
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> My experience with the “Merge All Duplicate Citations” command was a little distressing. I executed the command from the Source page and went from 16291 citations down to 2325. I checked around a bit and discovered one citation that went from 1 Media tag to 92 Media tags! This, as you can imagine, this made the Media tags as well as this Citation pretty much useless. I immediately restored from a recent backup - so no harm done. So my conclusion is: the “Merge All Duplicate Citations” comma…

It’s a shame RM has done nothing to mitigate the risk. I’ll bet there are dozens, if not hundreds of users who merrily clicked on that control and have yet to discover the mess it has made with citations from certain Ancestry Record Collections.

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