I did just that a couple of weeks ago, when I was researching at 2am. I found double entries for one family (in my favour, there are lots of branches, and they tended to have children with the same names as cousins) and decided to delete one branch to put the tree right. Sound okay so far? It made perfect sense at the time, to get the virtual shears out and prune. Problem was, I pruned the wrong branch - they were the ones who had all the links to my ancestors. I had them twice on the tree as we were related through more than one ancestor, and I've managed to do the tree quite a lot of damage (it is repairable, but will take weeks of nurturing to get it flowering again).
I'm never making the mistake of being ruthless in the early hours of the morning again. I will also be backing up the tree more frequently.
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