“Help! I accidentally\u00a0added my grandfather’s brother\u00a0as his son! How do I fix this?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Many people in similar situations have found themselves puzzled\u00a0at how to correct such a simple mistake. What they don’t realize is that correcting these mistakes is really easy on Geni.\u00a0Below we’ll walk you through step-by-step to\u00a0show you how to fix these incorrect parent relationships\u00a0in your family tree.<\/p>\n
Let’s take a look at this example below – The focus node, George, has accidentally been added as the son of his brother,\u00a0Jeremy.<\/p>\n
George is misplaced in the tree as his brother Jeremy’s son.<\/em><\/p>\n Fixing mistakes like this is quite simple once you know the trick. First, make sure the correct parents are on the tree. If they have not yet been added, now is a good time to do so. In this case, the correct parents for George are Jackson and Cassandra Peters.<\/p>\n George is actually the son of Jackson and Cassandra.<\/em><\/p>\n On George’s node, click “Edit” and select the “Relationships” tab.<\/p>\n George’s node<\/em><\/p>\n The Relationships tab in the edit card<\/em><\/p>\n At the top of the tab, the incorrect parents are shown.<\/p>\n Wrong parents<\/em><\/p>\n Simply click on the dropdown to choose the correct set of parents for the profile and and save your changes.<\/p>\n Select the correct parents and save<\/em><\/p>\n Now George can be found in his correct place in the tree!<\/p>\n Voil\u00e0!\u00a0The tree is fixed!<\/em><\/p>\n See, wasn’t that easy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does this sound familiar? “Help! I accidentally\u00a0added my grandfather’s brother\u00a0as his son! How do I fix this?” Many people in similar situations have found themselves puzzled\u00a0at how to correct such a simple mistake. What they don’t realize is that correcting these mistakes is really easy on Geni.\u00a0Below we’ll walk you through step-by-step to\u00a0show you how to fix these incorrect parent relationships\u00a0in your family tree. Let’s take a look at this example below – The focus… Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":89732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[6405,6371,6406],"class_list":["post-89660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geni-user-tips","tag-fix-tree","tag-geni-tips","tag-parents"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89660"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95642,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89660\/revisions\/95642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Geni](\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image1.png\")
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