Marriages/Divorces
My tree shows my current wife, along with my two children from previous marriage. How do I correct that?
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If all the people are living, only you can see them. Are the 2 children linked to their current wife or their biolgical mother?
If you want to link them to their biological mother, take their PID (personal ID number) and then go to your former spouse and choose "add children" and paste the child's PID.
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My first wife is not on FS, so I guess I would need to add her? Right now, my children are linked to me and my current wife.
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You can make a couple of separate decisions on what you want to do with the linkages of your children's profiles.
- You can decide whether you want to create a profile for your former wife.
- You can decide whether you want to retain the linkage of your children to your current wife and give each of those relationships a relationship type of "Step" (for your current wife only).
Whatever you decide, you can make the changes from the profile page of each of your children. You could add your former wife as a new parent as Lawanna has suggested (if you do want to retain the step relationship), or you could replace the children's mother (if you don't want to retain the step relationship). If you decide not to make a profile for your former wife and you do not want to retain the children's relationship with your current wife, then you could remove the existing relationships between the children and her (leaving you as the only parent). Family Tree supports all these scenarios.
There is a description of this in this Help Center article.
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