How can I delete/change a relationship with my grandfather's second wife?
My great great grandfather remarried after my great great grandmother. Her grandson has my grandmother listed as a previous spouse. This has changed my tree completely and now I can not view the descendants of my grandmother on my own tree. For example: I am not able to see the mother of my great grandmother and her father, etc. Instead it's all of the lady he remarried and her family! I am unable to delete. Please help! Thank you in advance.
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I am not clear on exactly which view you are using to see this problem, but I am guessing that it is on one of the tree views where you see a "target" person (and spouse), with a tree of ancestors to one side (above or to the right) and a single set of descendants (the children of the target couple) on the other side.
Here is a landscape-orientation tree view, where the selected "target" person was Hans Madsen.
There is no need for "deletion". Both of the women were wives. It is just a matter of which one is displayed for you by default.
I am thinking that the solution to your issue is the use of the "Preferred Spouse" setting. (I don't like the terminology of "preferred", but that is what they use.) What it means is that, in the case of multiple spouses, you can choose the one that you "prefer" to display by default on tree-view pedigree charts. This choice is specific to you (other people can select to have a different spouse displayed when they look at the tree) and the choice is supposed to stay in place until you change it.
In this case, you would open up a tree-view of your great-great-grandfather (it needs to be him, because he is the one with multiple spouses), and then you click on the "Multiple Spouse Indicator" next to his wife. It should show a list of all of his wives. You can select the button next to the one you want to display. You should see a pop-up in the upper right corner that indicates that the "The preferred spouse was successfully saved." And the tree should re-display with the children of the indicated wife, as well as her ancestry.
You can also change this setting on the Person page of your great-great-grandfather, just above the list of wives and children in the Family Members section. It says "Set Preferred".
I hesitate to give any more description of the "Preferred" setting because the interface has changed in recent months, and there don't appear to be any updated instructions in the help articles. Furthermore, when I use it now, it does not always act consistently or as expected. However, I was able to consistently make the change I described above.
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that can be resolved !
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@David Peterson made a good start at the answer by pointing you to preferred relationships. Setting the preferred spouse will help, but only in the specific case shown -- where the person with multiple spouses is the focus person of a landscape tree view. But it will have no effect when, for example, you are showing a tree for a child of that couple.
The far more important preferred relationship is "preferred parents." This only applies in cases where a person has multiple sets of parents, but that often happens in the car of approve or step parents. The preferred parents setting affects how every tree is drawn that goes through that person's parents.
To set the preferred parents, go to the child (your direct ancestor) of the couple you are talking about. Verify that they have multiple parents, and click Set Preferred. Choose your direct ancestors. That should fix all your tree views.
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