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weldonstree
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In the tab at the top of my log in screen next to the photo icon is the name ? Username? I gave when I first registered. I want to change it but can’t find a way of doing that. Can someone help?
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You can't change your username. You must create a new free account.
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There does not seem to be any technical reason why a profile name account be changed. As this is obviously something that is an issue to many users perhaps Geneanet can tell us why it is not possible?
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1917shirt ha scritto: 05 maggio 2021, 01:57 As this is obviously something that is an issue to many users
You're mistaken: very few people ask for this possibility.

Alternatively, you can create a second account (you can use the same email address and password), upload the contents of your 1917shirt account on your new account, then delete 1917shirt.

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Claudine
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Re: Change profile name

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There's no technical reason. It's to avoid some old usernames to be used again and to cause some problems.
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1917shirt ha scritto: 05 maggio 2021, 01:57 There does not seem to be any technical reason why a profile name account be changed.
All links to another user's tree would break if that user changed his/her username. There's no guarantee that a link you save currently will always be valid, as users can modify or remove their tree at anytime, but if users could modify their username at will, broken links could become a much more issue.

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