Deleting incorrect relationships

Samuel R Packer

I noticed in my family tree that the wrong person was put in somewhere which means that her parents and grandparents shouldn't be there either. If I delete the relationship between her and her husband will it get rid of her and her progenitors? That's what I want, but I don't want it to get rid of the husband or detach him from the kids. I'm just not sure what will actually happen to the people near them if I delete this relationship.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

To get rid of an incorrect relationship, delete the incorrect relationship. For example, if the husband and wife are correct, but the wife has the wrong parents, delete the wife's relationship to those wrong parents.

Here are the Help Center's instructions on correcting the two types of relationships that the Family Tree is built from: parent-child and spouse.

Alan E. Brown

Make sure that you are focused on what is truly the incorrect relationship. You suggested that you might "delete the relationship between her and her husband." If it's truly her husband that she shares a couple relationship with in Family Tree, then you should not delete that relationship. It's difficult to tell from the limited information you provided, but it may well be that the relationship you need to correct is an incorrect parent-child relationship that caused you to have some ancestors that include this person and her husband as parents, when they aren't the correct parents.