Wrong parents.

ACowie

someone has changed the parents of one of my ancestors 99P4-QK9. How do I change it back to the correct parents the parents should Robert Chalmers 3Q9K-LWL and Margaret Edward 3Q9K-KD7

ACowie

thanks I will take a look. I had looked on the help centre but couldn’t fathom it out.

Lars van Ravenzwaaij

@ACowie I can't find the ID you mentioned either. This means they don't exist or someone changed the status from deceased to living.

Edit: I now see, you yourself connected with other IDs LDHQ-WNR and LDHQ-W2L. And now you have a possible duplicate for a son James.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

There is a Help Article for almost any conceivable situation in the FamilySearch Family Tree:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/img_auth.php/d/db/2021_Correcting_Relationships_in_Family_Tree.pdf

Tennuchi Alan Cyril Edward

Also look at this article:

Connecting and Correcting Relationships in Family Tree • FamilySearch

ACowie

I can see how to replace parents however when I try to replace by name it says they do not exist even though there are multiple entries for them and when I take an ID from one the entries it is saying it is not recognised.

ACowie

managed to remove the parents and then added the new parents.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

@ACowie, it appears that you're confusing the Genealogies section and Family Tree: the IDs you gave in your original question are from a Pedigree Resource File (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3Q9K-LWL), meaning it's a family tree that was uploaded by someone as a GEDCOM and is now "cloud-archived" on FS. It's publicly searchable and viewable, but nobody can make any changes to it (not even the original uploader).

The collaborative Family Tree on FamilySearch is a completely different beast from the individual-and-static files found in the Genealogies section, and you cannot connect the one to the other.

ACowie

Ah thanks, I will try and sort out any duplicates.

ACowie

I had a look at the suggested duplicates for James Chalmers and there are a few it looks like two different James’ have been mixed up and it is a bit of a mess. I will leave it to someone who knows what they are doing to sort out.