how do you remove people you know don’t belong on your tree?

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This discussion was created from comments split from: How do I integrate people into my tree and remove people I know aren't part of my family?.

PatriciaColeman5

how do you remove people you know don’t belong on your tree?

MandyShaw1

This is usually a matter of removing or replacing a couple relationship or a child/parents relationship, with an appropriate reason statement, assuming you are 100% certain that you are looking at the correct appropriately sourced profiles and that the offending relationships are not sourced in ways that contradict your own records. Contacting the relevant user(s) may help ensure the relationships don't reappear, as may working out where the relationships /should/ sit and putting them in place, properly sourced, there.

brianadams6

Well I contacted someone who added to my tree who is NOT directly related to me and it was done by pure speculation and nothing else….i.e. NO SOURCES or any other info….but I cannot remove it and have contacted them to do so with no result. I have been working on my tree for 40 years and do not appreciate anyone just adding to my family without my consent.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

@brianadams6, if you prefer a private tree setup, I suggest not using an open-edit platform like FS's collaborative Family Tree.

Because FS is open-edit, you cannot simply delete another user's contributions. You can, however, modify them: you can remove or replace erroneous relationships, correct misspelled names and typoed dates, change to the correct location, and so forth and so on. And if someone makes modifications that you believe to be wrong, you can restore the previous data. Just make sure you attach the sources and explain the reasoning behind your changes.