Home› Welcome to the FamilySearch Community!› FamilySearch Help› Family Tree

Incorrect Ancestors

RyanAndrus
RyanAndrus ✭
January 20, 2022 edited January 24, 2022 in Family Tree

I was looking at my tree today wanting to change some ancestors that I got incorrect, as there were multiple people with that name and got the wrong line. How can I correct this as I am unable to delete the individuals from my tree.

Tagged:
  • Incorrect person
0

Answers

  • Colin Ramsbottom
    Colin Ramsbottom mod
    January 20, 2022

    If there are incorrect individuals in your tree, you can disconnect them by deleting the incorrect child -parent relationships or spouse-spouse relationships that have been created. Note: it is the relationship that you are deleting not the individuals. Deleting the relationships effectively removes the person who is not related from the family lines without, crucially, removing them totally from Family Search.

    Here are a couple of articles from the FamilySearch Help Centre which give detail on how you do that:

    https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-correct-parent-child-relationships-in-family-tree
    https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/a-person-in-family-tree-has-the-wrong-spouse

    Hope this helps.

    1
  • Shannon Hecht
    Shannon Hecht ✭
    January 22, 2022

    2 people have misread names and data from poor transcriptions and added that information to my family tree. I know these people and the relationships that have been created are not true. How can I correct this? I cannot remove or correct anything because I did not make the entry and I am not allowed to do so

    0
  • Chas Howell
    Chas Howell ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 22, 2022 edited January 22, 2022

    @Shannon Hecht , posting the PID will help in understanding your issue. In general you should be able to remove the incorrect Relationships. See @Colin Ramsbottom 's post above and follow the instructions in the two referenced knowledge articles. As a reminder you do not have a personal tree on FamilySearch except for the Living, but we all share one public tree for the deceased. How if however your issue is that a Source is attached to the incorrect person, then click on the Source tab on the person page then click the incorrect Source then click Detach and explain the reason the source does not belong to that person.

    0
  • Brett .
    Brett . ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 22, 2022

    @Chas Howell

    Chas

    It's 'Brett'

    FYI

    'Shannon' has ALREADY raised the matter ...

    FamilySearch Help

    'Category' = Family Tree

    HOME> FAMILYSEARCH HELP > FAMILY TREE

    A different wife was added to a family member. That portion of my tree is now incorrect.

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/114281/a-different-wife-was-added-to-a-family-member-that-portion-of-my-tree-is-now-incorrect

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/114281/a-different-wife-was-added-to-a-family-member-that-portion-of-my-tree-is-now-incorrect

    Brett

    0
Clear
No Groups Found

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 27.4K FamilySearch Help
  • 143 Get Involved
  • 2.9K General Questions
  • 473 FamilySearch Center
  • 515 FamilySearch Account
  • 5.1K Family Tree
  • 3.9K Search
  • 5.1K Indexing
  • 725 Memories
  • 374 Other Languages
  • 36 Community News
  • 7.2K Suggest an Idea
  • Groups