topic Re: What happens to the household when two contacts are merged? in DemandTools https://mycommunity.validity.com/t5/demandtools/what-happens-to-the-household-when-two-contacts-are-merged/m-p/2776#M1583 <P><a href="https://mycommunity.validity.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2339">@NA</a>&nbsp;- The losing household would become "Anonymous". For household accounts, we reccomend deduping on accounts first, then delete the anonymous accounts after the fact. I will email you an outline of the suggestesd process.&nbsp;</P> Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:33:54 GMT Pugs_Validity 2025-07-16T16:33:54Z What happens to the household when two contacts are merged? https://mycommunity.validity.com/t5/demandtools/what-happens-to-the-household-when-two-contacts-are-merged/m-p/2775#M1582 <P>Question:&nbsp; When two contacts, from two different households, are merged, what happens to the losing contact's household?&nbsp; Thanks.</P> Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:45:36 GMT https://mycommunity.validity.com/t5/demandtools/what-happens-to-the-household-when-two-contacts-are-merged/m-p/2775#M1582 NA 2025-07-15T15:45:36Z Re: What happens to the household when two contacts are merged? https://mycommunity.validity.com/t5/demandtools/what-happens-to-the-household-when-two-contacts-are-merged/m-p/2776#M1583 <P><a href="https://mycommunity.validity.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2339">@NA</a>&nbsp;- The losing household would become "Anonymous". For household accounts, we reccomend deduping on accounts first, then delete the anonymous accounts after the fact. I will email you an outline of the suggestesd process.&nbsp;</P> Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:33:54 GMT https://mycommunity.validity.com/t5/demandtools/what-happens-to-the-household-when-two-contacts-are-merged/m-p/2776#M1583 Pugs_Validity 2025-07-16T16:33:54Z Re: What happens to the household when two contacts are merged? https://mycommunity.validity.com/t5/demandtools/what-happens-to-the-household-when-two-contacts-are-merged/m-p/2778#M1584 <P>Can you please also email this to me? thank you!</P> Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:59:25 GMT https://mycommunity.validity.com/t5/demandtools/what-happens-to-the-household-when-two-contacts-are-merged/m-p/2778#M1584 jbarmstrong87 2025-07-17T22:59:25Z Re: What happens to the household when two contacts are merged? https://mycommunity.validity.com/t5/demandtools/what-happens-to-the-household-when-two-contacts-are-merged/m-p/2780#M1586 <P>Thanks - That was what I thought - so would you say that in one sense it would be better to merge households first and then merge contacts? This would limit the creation of these anonymous households?</P> Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:56:10 GMT https://mycommunity.validity.com/t5/demandtools/what-happens-to-the-household-when-two-contacts-are-merged/m-p/2780#M1586 NA 2025-07-18T16:56:10Z