Deleting Person Entries in Family Tree • FamilySearch

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Deleting Person Entries in Family Tree • FamilySearch

Contributors to FamilySearch Family Tree, particularly those that are new to it, often hesitate to make changes for fear of “messing things …

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Donald Sherry

It's one thing to delete a person, and another to uncouple a person from an incorrect relationship. The policy as it stands makes it mandatory that incorrect relationships stand and impossible to correction them..

Don Sherry

Amy Archibald

@Donald Sherry

Please see these Help Center articles for correcting incorrect relationships:

How do I correct parent-child relationships in Family Tree? 

A person in Family Tree has the wrong spouse

Maree17

I have incorrectly entered someone and now I cannot delete them. This should be easy but it is not. How can this be resolved?

Amy Archibald

@Maree17

Please see these Help Center articles:

How do I delete a person from Family Tree?

How do I change vital information in Family Tree? 

How do I correct parent-child relationships in Family Tree? 

A person in Family Tree has the wrong spouse 

How do I add or change marriage information in Family Tree? 

Rene4858

Hi Matt .. I am new to the research and mistakenly added great great grand parents to my tree that are Not my great great grandparents. And apparently, they belong to someone else’s tree and I am unable to remove them from my tree. So that I can add the correct great great grandparents to my tree. How can I delete an ad the correct people to my tree?

Cheryl Gebhart

@Rene4858 Thank you for comment. The article, "How do I delete a person from Family Tree?" may be helpful. You can check in with Online Genealogy Help to schedule a Free Research Consultation provided by the FamilySearch Library.