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Title: help
Post by: reneno1 on Tuesday 11 September 12 18:50 BST (UK)

  made a bad mistake  put a dozen people on my the tree ,  how do I
delete them,  easy way pleaaase  with  thanks  ???

Title: Re: help
Post by: groom on Tuesday 11 September 12 18:52 BST (UK)

What programme are you using?

Title: Re: help
Post by: reneno1 on Tuesday 11 September 12 18:57 BST (UK)

  I have a free tree on ancsestry,  dont know what prog not into all that yet thanks

Title: Re: help
Post by: Jolyon on Tuesday 11 September 12 19:46 BST (UK)

As I recall if you click on a person in the tree an 'edit' box appears.  Bottom right corner is 'delete' tab, allowing you to remove the person from the tree.

Jolyon

Title: Re: help
Post by: reneno1 on Tuesday 11 September 12 20:13 BST (UK)

      Thank   You    Jolyon  will give it a  try   now     regards    :D
         
          IT worked   done it            Thank :) you

Title: Re: help
Post by: Nick29 on Wednesday 12 September 12 09:09 BST (UK)

You have to be careful about deleting people from Ancestry trees - you have to do it 'from the ground up'.

For example, if you had John Smith with three sons Tom, Dick & Harry, and you delete John Smith, you will leave Tom, Dick, and Harry floating about in the ether, and they won't show up in your tree.   Although this is not a big deal, this could cause problems if you export the GEDCOM file to use in another genealogy program, and all these 'orphans' will bloat your tree.

Title: Re: help
Post by: reneno1 on Wednesday 12 September 12 18:11 BST (UK)

    Thank you nick,  for giveing me the information,  these hints, learn  me a lot
and thank you for takeing  time to  reply  all the best      :)