Error: These constituents could not be merged because one of the organizations was historically the parent of the other. You need to remove the organization history record before you can merge these records - when merging two organization records

When trying to merge two organization records, you may get this error: These constituents could not be merged because one of the organizations was historically the parent of the other. You need to remove the organization history record before you can merge these records.

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Open the organization's constituent record for the source constituent
Select the Organization History tab
Click the drop-down arrow next to the parent history
Click Delete.
Go to Constituents > Duplicates > Merge two constituents.
Enter the source constituent and target constituent, select your merge configuration, choose to delete source constituent, and click Merge.

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