Editing

LegacyUser

tracey ebanks said: I've got the wrong person on my family tree and cant edit it without changing the persons details. surely this is wrong of me to be editing a person who has a reference number too.

Also please make the ID number visible with the name at all times as I have to keep searching to locate it

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Juli said: The ID _is_ always visible, at the end of the URL if nowhere else.

If you've got the wrong person attached somewhere, the thing to do is to detach him or her. The details depend on the type of relationship and on whether there's a replacement person or not, but it generally starts with the little relationship-editing (pencil stub) icon on a profile's details page.

LegacyUser

tracey ebanks said: Thanks for replying. I dont have a pencil icon on the person i want to remove

LegacyUser

tracey ebanks said: Thanks for the url tip. Thats works.

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Ronald Tilby said: There is a FamilySearch help article entitled "How do I correct parent-child relationships in Family Tree?"

Here's the URL:
https://www.familysearch.org/ask/sale...

You may also find this site useful for learning how to use FamilySearch:
https://www.thefhguide.com/index.html

LegacyUser

tracey ebanks said: Thank you

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Adrian Bruce said: Tracey - can I say thank you for instinctively thinking that editting the wrong person's details isn't a good thing to do?

Unfortunately some people don't think like you and "Jean Luc Picard" gets amended to "Benjamin Sisko", which upsets the Picard parents. (Interestingly, this use of names likes that makes the problem even more obvious... To me, at least.)