Incorrect person linked to family tree

ChristinaHolt61

Hi peoples. I have found an incorrect person linked as a relative/ancestor on our family tree. I would like to remove this person and their spouse and enter the correct information. I noticed that a photo of this person has also been uploaded and would like to remove it hoever I did not upload and link it.

Could anyone help me please?

OConnorAnne1

Hi Christina. You can remove/replace the incorrect parents. It is explained in this article.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-correct-parent-child-relationships-in-family-tree

genthusiast

@ChristinaHolt61

Anne gave you reference to a great Help Center article above.

You could also look for the contact name and information of the person(s) that did add/connect the profile and contact them or initiate a profile Discussion about the reasoning behind the profile linkage(s) (if such cannot be deciphered through Sources/Memories).

One further concern though that I'm not sure the article Anne referenced fully addresses... I think many times a person might be confused by similar name and mistakenly merged. If this is the case with your possible 'incorrect person' - you may want to analyze the Latest Changes/Change log - to see when the 'incorrect person' was conflated with a prior 'correct person'. Whenever that change occurred - and whatever the possible multiple profile consequences (from your description this appears to be the case since the profile sounds 'developed' with profile picture included...) - you will need to revert/undo all of those changes to successfully separate the 'incorrect person' from the 'correct person's family' - in order to not have it reintroduced due to Record Hints or further conflation. We wouldn't want to undo the change only to have it re-attached due to 'confusion' between the profiles involved. This means you 'have your work cut out for you'. Likely you will need to fully investigate multiple profiles.

There are some here in Community that sort of specialize in such 'tree-cleaning'. If you want to give the profile ID(s) for the profiles concerned - someone here in Community could 'take a look' and give you recommendations.