I've wiped out a whole line of my Ancestry tree.

[antiquesam]

The certificate reads "Edith Mary", father "Charles Cocks", mother Elizabeth Anne Cocks formerly Coomber". As that is the only reference to Coomber I have to assume her surname would be Cocks. Edith interchanged the name, but used Coomber when registering the birth of her three illegitimate children and when registering her marriage in 1920. The marriage to Jethro was obviously over for a mother to be prepared to perjure herself when registering a birth.

[chempat]

If you have wiped the whole branch out, then complain to Ancestry support and suggest that there needs to be a check to ensure that was what you really intended?

[antiquesam]

Thanks Chempat, but the deed has been done. Fortunately I'm retired and will have plenty of time to rebuild it when the weather turns. Coomber is a sufficiently unusual name to be easy to do.

[chempat]

The weather has turned here - it is raining.  A little annoying, though does save on some manual watering.

[rayard]

Many of the trees on Ancestry are wrongly copied and borrowed, hopefully someone copied yours! I hope you can find some way to retrieve your work.
rayard.

[antiquesam]

Thank you Rayard. I'll have a mooch around.

[DavidG02]

I may ask my question here. Had a look around and really couldnt find anywhere that fit and it was either piggyback off this or start a new thread

I have gone back and started looking and adding to my American tree from a branch that left Gloucestershire and ended up in Utah/Nevada and Arizona

It is becoming a bigger tree and I had a thought to separate it to a stand alone tree

I still want to keep it attached but - here is the main question - can I just transfer the sections that I want or am I up for a re-write of every individual

ie copy/paste v building the branch bit by bit

[antiquesam]

Following on from my problem, I've redone my Jethro Coomber line, but having decided I'm the ultimate mongrel and added this Charles Cocks into my tree, Ancestry decided to point me towards a Charles Harrison Cocks also living in Devonport at the same time with a wife called Elizabeth Anne Cocks. He had been married to this lady for ten years prior to the birth of Edith Mary, so is unlikely to be the father, unless he had a penchant for ladies with those names, He was still married to his wife in 1911 with a daughter called Hilda E Cocks of approximately the same age as Edith. These coincidences really are a distraction.