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how to detach individuals who I have proved are not my ancestors

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February 15, 2022 in Family Tree
This discussion was created from comments split from: How do I lock down my carefully researched tree from beginners with no clue?.
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  • dshopm
    dshopm ✭
    February 14, 2022

    I really didn't understand the answer as to how to detach individuals who I have proved are not my ancestors.

    Who do I "follow"?

    Again, how do I detach a wrong ancestor that someone has put in the tree? I didn't add them, but somehow other's "trees who have some of my ancestors have come to the wrong conclusion."

    Diane

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  • genthusiast
    genthusiast ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 15, 2022

    Detaching relationships which have been wrongly attached is fairly straight-forward. There are probably some Help Center or other resource documents about how to do so - but a quick search didn't turn them up easily for me.

    There are basically two types of relationships in FamilySearch Family Tree (that I am aware of) -

    Parent - Child Relationship and Couple Relationship

    When you view the person page of either the parent or child you want to remove - the method to Edit/Delete that relationship is found as a little notepad/pencil to the right of either -

    the marriage of the couple

    OR

    the child listed below the parents

    It is important (in my opinion) when editing relationships to include a Reason Statement for why you are doing so.

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