Incorrect relationships

DouglasLoeffler

In the tree of my family that appears on the website, there is an error. It incorrectly lists a person as my great, great grandfather. It isn't clear to me if the tree and therefore this error was generated by a computer or by individuals. I can not find a way to correct this error, and nothing on the web site seems to deal with this problem.

Thank you for your query, This is a Knowledge Article from the help centre. If you go to the ? mark on the top right and go down to help centre you will find many Knowledge Articles on many subjects. I hope this helps you.

SL Terry

@DouglasLoeffler Thank you for your query. this is a Knowledge Article from the Help Center in familysearch.

genthusiast

There probably are some Help Center articles that apply. The basics of your question involve a few features of the Family Tree. You certainly are able to edit and correct incorrect relationships using these features.

1. Latest Changes: which you will find on the right-hand column of a person page. This will indicate what changes in Relationships occurred and by whom they were transacted. You may even have the option to Restore a previous person - before the Changes occurred (but this is only available if there have been no subsequent changes after the merge or whatever changed the relationships you are concerned with.).
2. Couple-Relationship: You can find this on (Family Members section of Details view) a couple/parents - when viewing one of the couple in their person page. The icon appears as a pencil and pad out from marriage information that is listed between the couple (if there is that marriage information). Clicking on that pencil will let you edit the marriage relationship.
3. Parent-Child Relationship(s): You can find this on a similar pencil and pad icon where the child(ren) are listed below the parents (Family Members section of Details view). Again clicking on this pencil will allow you to Edit the Parent-Child Relationship.

In any event, when you edit a relationship you will be given the opportunity to include your reason statements or reference sources that indicate the needed correction. Please attach your reasoning - a well reasoned change is better than a change with no reason.

I hope this helps?