I erroneously added a great uncle into my tree. Is there a correct way of removing him and his wife without affecting a chain reaction of deletes of the following decendents and restore it to its original lineage?
Right-click him and choose Unlink>Unlink from parents
Right-click him and choose Add>Add parents>Select existing
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Mr. KbensOn - I followed your directions as presented and when I affected the “unlink from parents” all of the generations after him disappeared as well! When I moved to my father and right clicked him to affect the "add parents>select existing, there were non to be had because, as I stated initially, the whole line of generations disappeared. The “add parents” was an option to choose, but the select existing did not show! Obviously, because they along with the lineage disappeared. That was the result of your suggestion. I have to believe it was not your intent for this to occur and I thought I would mention it to prevent it from occurring to others. My hopes diminished, but - no hard feelings. Just a lot of reconstructing ahead. Tx.
KbensOn - I do not know how I restored the lineage, but I did! To exhausted at this time to reenact my the moves I took to do so at this time. I’m going to sign out and have some watermelon.
If he had spouses and / or descendants … they remained attached to him. He just was freed from the wrong siblings and ancestors. You just weren’t familiar with how the Unlink operation works. Glad you figured it out.