I have made an error on my tree how can I delete a branch?

LegacyUser

I have made an error on my tree how can I delete a branch?

I added the wrong father for my Grandmother, Fathers side.

bathompson

Hello @VickiFought,

Here are the instructions for removing your father from your husband's family. Navigate to your husband's Person Page and then:

1. If the Details section is not open, click the Details tab.
2. Scroll to the Family Members section at the bottom of the page.
3. Under Parents and Siblings to the right, find your husband's name and click the Edit icon (small pencil to the right of his name).
4. Click Remove or Replace next to the incorrect parent.
5. A Remove or Replace box appears. Verify relationships, sources, and notes, then click the check box.
6. Do one of the following:
   1. To remove a parent, click the appropriate Remove button. Explain why, and then click Remove.
   2. To replace a parent, click the appropriate Replace button. The Replace Person screen appears.
      • If you know a your father-in-law's ID number, click Find by ID Number, enter the ID number, and then click Find. Click Add Person. Explain your reason for the change, and then click Replace.
      • If you do not know his ID number, complete the search fields, and then click Next. If the correct person or couple appears in the list, click Add Person. Otherwise, click Create New to create a parent record. Explain your reason for the change, and then click Replace.

Here is the link to this information in the Help Center. You can print it out to keep it handy as a reference.

https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-correct-parent-child-relationships-in-family-tree

Best Wishes!

VickiFought

I made a mistake and added my father as my husband’s father on my family tree. I can’t figure out how to delete it.Help!

Schex9

^^What VickiFought and bathompson said.

DianeSchuette

I have had 2 different people hack into my family tree and added incorrect parents and children to my great-great-grandfather. I have contacted both and they don't seem to care if it is incorrect. I have asked them to remove them and they won't. They say I have to if I want to change it. It won't let me delete their information and it is all wrong. I tell them I have the birth records, church records, and they don't care. I CARE!! It is MY Family tree and what they did is WRONG! I am very upset. It is not right.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

@DianeSchuette, in a shared, collaborate family tree like the one on FamilySearch, there's no hacking involved in making changes, no matter where they are in the Tree. As you've seen, a drawback of this is that people can make changes anywhere. However, a great advantage of this is that you can also make changes anywhere: you can fix other people's errors.

You cannot delete profiles, but you can delete relationships. Use the pencil-stub-like icon to the right of the people's or couple's names to edit their relationships.