Genealogy Chat

Please tell me I am being dim.......help required in a mo, below.....Merry x

no wonder you hate it , you have disappeared

I have had the same GR tree on here for two years......I have never made any changes to it since I uploaded by gedcom at that time. This morning I decided to sort out the living people I have on the tree. It was my intention to change their names to Living XYZ and leave them on there in case the surname meant something to someone...... 1) Did my two children......No problem 2) Moved on to my cousins children. Decided I should do the children, their parents, and the husband's parents, as I have no idea whether they are alive or not. OK with the children and my cousin...... But cannot change my cousin's husband to Living XYZ because I know nothing about him!! I have no idea where he was born and of course I have to guess. I would be happy to guess England and a year but I cannot bring myself to say which county and town he was born in when I have no idea. So, I decided to remove these people instead. Removed the cousins children. Can't seem to get the cousin or her hubby to go........It won't let me GGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I am SO frustrated with it. (only a few more twigs to go after this one, as living people are only on my tree in a few cases.............) Merry (feeling 141¼)

...... those men in white coats again, Merry? :-)

Oooooh, I hope so Joy!! Val! LOL Merry

Edited: You could ask GR to sort it.........

I had a similar problem on my tree a while back. There was a partner that wasn't supposed to be there. He had no parents or children to the person he was linked with but it kept telling me he couldn't be removed because of children or something. I left it at the time but I've since been able to remove the blighter. Must have been a glitch in the system at the time. Gypsy Joe

Oh, OK, Lets blame GR for my rising blood pressure! I'll construct a list of those living peeps so I can see how many are going to frustrate me! Merry (PS - hubby never listens to me when I mention people moaning about GR.....he says ''Hmmmmm'' with a blank look.....BUT Yesterday he took his tree off GR and uploaded a new one......WELL!! You have NEVER heard such Whinging in your life!!!! LOL......Nothing works.....why is Bristol in Avon?? .....why isn't there a country to put St Helena in?? Why, why , why??????? LOL!)

I am getting cheesed off with it as well.I can't tidy it up and move people out or put them in the right place......Newish at it..I have somehow got a whole generation duplicated and can't delate them,, because they won't let me........

if this sounds daft then dont listen but I remember someone on here a while back saying if you change their names you can delete them because then they dont belong to anyone , worth a try ????

Tried that. doesn't work.......Still won't delete...

If I change their names, they are still joined to their rellies though, aren't they?? Merry

It was me that put that tip up. If you have two names the same in your tree you can't delete either. So: if you have anonymised an aunt and a cousin both to Living Jones, you won't be able to delete either. The program is unable to distinguish which one to delete. Change one to Unwanted Jones and try again. Persons to delete must only have one link to another, though.

Oops. Hubby having a breakdown over his tree as we speak!! I keep saying,......''Yes, that's what I've been telling you all this time''!!! Merry

Ooh, Ta Brian

When it says I can't delete someone because they are joined to more than one person....what do I do?? The person I want to delete is joined to his wife (I want her to stay) and joined to his parents (I want them deleted too. They are joined to their son and to each other, but that's all) Merry (Hot and Bothered)

I am so pleased I haven't added to my tree on here!

Delete the parents then their son.

What if the parents are attatcher to their parents, you can't delete that either..........I am going down the same path as Merry, with my husband. 'i told you ' .. ....He writes computer software.......

If the parent have parents then you have to start at the top of that branch and work down.