Any help on deletion?
I've been having an issue deleting people, i accidentally put the wrong person in the wrong part of my family tree and confirmed a match. And now my tree is messed up and i can't get rid of it.
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@Tristan6948 Hi Welcome to FamilySearch Community and asking your question about your tree. When you put people in the wrong place on your tree it is done by creating a relationship. In order to correct it, you have to edit the relationships. This is done on the person page. If you go to the person page for the person in the wrong place, go down to the family members section, then click on the pencil icon (edit) by the person. You will note that there are pencil icons by every relationship be it a parent child relationship or a couple relationship. Choose the one you want to edit. Here are links to more detailed instructions. Hope this helps.
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In the collaborative tree on FamilySearch, profile deletion is only available in very limited circumstances, and it's seldom needed anyway: in most cases, the people are correct, it's just their relationships that aren't -- so you just need to correct their relationships.
A couple of relevant Help Center articles:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/a-person-in-family-tree-has-the-wrong-spouse
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Can persons be deleted in Family Search if they are fictitious? My grandfather invented names for his parents - they were entirely fictitious. On another world wide tree I created parents’ profiles based on his lies. I subsequently found out the true identities of the parents. I was not able to delete the original profiles but changed all the details of the parents. If the parent profiles cannot be deleted in Family Search could all their details be changed and then possibly merged with other profiles if duplicates are created?
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@RobertWaddell1 Hi Robert, Welcome to FamilySearch Community and asking your question about deleting a person. The short answer to your question is yes, a person can be deleted from Family Search. However, the conditions for being able to delete a person are that you must be the creator of the record and no one else has made any changes/additions to the record. If these conditions are not met, then a request to FamilySearch can be made to delete a person providing evidence why the person should be deleted.
The other method of deleting a person is by merging and is the more common way to delete a person. Contrary to what you are saying, there is no need to change the record in order to create a possible duplicate. You can merge any two records by using the "Merge By ID" function within FamilySearch. And as with any change, deleted persons can always be restored if either directly deleted or deleted by a merge. Here is a link to more detailed instructions for merge by ID. Hope this helps.
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As Wayland says, you can delete a fictitious profile if nobody else has edited it, or you can merge-delete it. However, I think this may be the one case where "hijacking" a profile may be the best way to fix things: edit the fictitious names (and places and dates) to be the true ones. After all, the other parts of those profiles are true: they are his parents, so the relationships are correct. Just make sure you document the reason you're changing all the details, not just for the sake of other people, but to refresh your own memory. (Yes, it's all obvious and clear right now, but what about several years from now?)
You could even keep the fictitious names under Other Information, in case there are other records that use them.
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Julia is correct if you have not already created a correct profile, just edit the existing profiles. If you have already created correct profiles, then use the merge by ID. It is hard to tell if you already created the correct profiles on FamilySearch. Thanks.
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