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DELETING WHOLE FAMILIES.

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++Maid of Kent++

++Maid of Kent++ Report 11 Mar 2008 15:55

I have absolutely messed up on one part of my family tree. I have my ggg grandmother married to her daughter and she not only has her rightful husband....but two of them. This gives my ggg gran a double lot of children (20 in all!!!) I wrote to Genes and they told me to delete, either from the top or from the bottom through "edit tools." It doesn't work.
Has anyone had any experience of this? Would love some help.

Pam

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 11 Mar 2008 16:06

You can only delete one person at a time.......

You can't delete anyone who has descendants.......so you have to start with the most recently-born person, and work systematically 'backwards'

Does this help? Or is it what you have been doing?

Reg

++Maid of Kent++

++Maid of Kent++ Report 11 Mar 2008 16:20

Hi Reg,

I've just gone back to the youngest relation I have (1901) and its worked. About another 100 to go, all with the name of Fagg. Thanks very much.

Pam

°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o°

°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° Report 11 Mar 2008 17:27

Pam do you have software such as Family Tree Maker? Much easier to correct on there & then import you amended tree to GR

++Maid of Kent++

++Maid of Kent++ Report 11 Mar 2008 18:58

Claire, I was thinking about deleting the whole lot but it would take ages to type in everyones name again and any info. about them. Having said that, I would still have to enter everything onto Family Tree Maker wouldn't I? Or would I be able to export from Genes to make it easier? I am seriously going to think about buying FTM. Is it quite easy to use? Thanks Pam

Andrew

Andrew Report 11 Mar 2008 19:40

I've got similar problems with my tree. Its got all sorts of strange links in it when you view the whole tree - brothers 'married' to each other for example. I tried deleting parts of the tree and reinstalling them, but they still came out corrupt, so now I just live with it. When you view individual people and look at immediate family, all the links are normal. I also have the tree on ancestry and FTM 2008, using Gedcom file exported from GR, and everything works fine on these.

Andy