How to Delete People from a Tree in Ancestry?

Deleting people from ancestry tree is very easy and finding duplicates as well but all you need to do is just follow below simple step by step guide to delete any person from ancestry tree and we also mentioned alternate to delete people through profile. You can delete people from a tree only one by one until you will delete a ancestry tree completely.

How to Delete People Through Tree View

• Navigate to the tree, tap on the person you want to remove.
• From the menu items that appears, press “the tools menu” & choose “Delete this person”.
• Now tap on “Delete” to permanently remove the person.

How to Delete People Through A Profile Page

• From the profile page of a person, press “Edit” from the top-right corner and choose “Delete Person”.
• Now menus that shows there, tap on “Delete”.

Ancestry Missing Duplicate People and Trees:

To stop accidental deletion of people from a tree, it is impossible to remove a complete branch of a tree in one time. If you are looking for a missing tree or a missing branch of tree you can get their details from our Missing family trees guide.

If a person that you have deleted has relatives available in the tree who are not connect in the family tree through any other family member.  After deletion of that people, those relatives are also disappearing but they will available in your list of people and you can reattach with them.

If duplicate people are also available in your family tree then it’s good to merge them together than to delete one, so that the information are attached to both people.

Conclusion

Sometimes you need to delete the people due to avoid duplicate people in the tree. So we have shared this post to help you in deleting individuals with step by step instructions. Please share your feedback about this post to help us serve more useful information about ancestry on our website.