Deleting somebody on family search is very hard but it is
somewhat possible. So I'm going to show you how to do
that in this video.
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all while having a whole lot of fun along the way. Back to the
main topic of the video, FamilySearch is is it's very hard to
delete somebody on FamilySearch as opposed to like
Ancestry or MyHeritage because with those sites, you have your
own tree and so it's just simple to delete a person if
you don't want them on your tree anymore but the Problem
arises on FamilySearch, the objective on FamilySearch is
to get one profile for every person. And so if you delete
the profile of somebody that is potentially the only profile of
that person and now it's gone. So it's very hard to delete
somebody on FamilySearch. However it is possible and I'm
going to show you the few instances in which it is easy
and then the ones in which it's very hard. So we're going to be
using this guy as a test subject because he is has no
sources on him and he was we assume somewhere in the 1400s
where we have basically no records and so if I mess up
anything it's not it's not that big of a deal so let's show you
the first way and the easiest way to delete somebody and
that's if you are the only person who has edited their
profile so I'm going to show you I'm going to create a fake
profile of a parent. So here is our fake profile this is is not
a real person. She's born in Ireland and she was born in
Ireland in some point then migrated over to the United
Kingdom. But anyways let's go and go so let's scroll down to
about where the family members are are shown. And then you're
going to go to the right under this place labeled tools. I'm
going to move over so you can see. So we got a bunch of cool
stuff here. But one of them we're going to delete person.
Again since I'm the only person who has edited is not I can
delete them. Basically delete somebody only if it's a mistake
or if it didn't exist. It requires you to put a recent as
opposed to adding records where you don't have to put a recent
statement in. So we're going to just put a basic one. You're
going to yours is going to be more complex. And so if you've
done all that then this right here it's going to delete the
person. Now they're still going to be on FamilySearch.
Um they're just not going to be able to touch anything. They
aren't going to be able to be edited or added into any
relationship. There is restore person. That's going to ask for
a recent statement but this is basically for is not. Now the
second way. Now if you are not the only person who has edited
this profile and you can tell where it's going to say delete
person unavailable. See this is a new edition whereas it's not
just head delete person. So what you're going to do then
you're going to go all the way up to the top on the right
click help and then contact us. This is going to bring you to
the contact page where you can either send a message through
FamilySearch. You can chat with somebody or you can or you
can call them. You you can use whichever is is best. But
basically you're going to want to in contact information
here title of the message you could say in the subject like
request for delete or something like that or delete please
delete this ancestor or ancestors name need to be
deleted then what you would do here you would give a very very
good reason why this needs to be this person easily delete it
for instance with Gayle just saying it doesn't have any
sources is not enough just saying that there's no evidence
that this person existed isn't enough to have proof it's very
hard to get a deletion on FamilySearch which is why most
times you just want to delete the relationships and take them
off the take them off the family trade that way also one
more thing to note we it they would like you to include the
PID that thing is the the the garbagely gook of numbers and
such that's next to their that's under their name so just
click it copy ID and then there so so hopefully that was enough
for you to to solve your problem like I said it's very
hard to get a deletion on FamilySearch most of the times
you just want to take him off the family tree and move on to
other stuff but anyways that'll be it for the video and if you
want to you know want to watch some other videos about family
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