Cindy,Navigate on the Family tab to where you have the person showing as the 
father and as one of the children (his own child).  Right-click on him as a 
child.  Click Unlink from parents.

     On Saturday, November 15, 2014 1:15 AM, Brett McL Robinson 
<[email protected]> wrote:


   Hi Cindy

 I can' see a reply to your question so far, so here are my thoughts:

 1    If you can, identify the next generation where names and relationship are 
correct, and work back from there. Decide which "spot" you want your existing 
confused individual to end up in. Check each parent/child relationship and 
change those to the wrong "spot" (unlink then link parents/children).

 2    From what you describe you probably have an individual (or perhaps a 
couple) either missing, or one individual with the details collected from two 
individuals (parent and child). It may help to create a temporary individual 
named something useful (eg "John the father") to get the linkages right before 
you then add in all the names/dated/places/facts/events etc, or perhaps delete 
the temporary individual if not needed.

 I find, when faced with a confusion in my database, it helps me to revert to 
paper and sketch the outline of what I want to end up with, in this case 
particularly noting the names and IDs for the surrounding next generations 
(that are correct) so then I have the extent of the problem defined. I then 
tick them off  adding IDs as I work through the correction process.

  Cheers, Brett
B McL Robinson, Hamilton, New Zealand On 11/11/2014 4:13 a.m., 
[email protected] wrote:

 Please help.   I just recently started using Legacy. I've been using PAF for 
years and understand the matching and margining process.  From about 2009 I've 
been putting my data from my years or research on Ancestry trees that I've 
created but I realize now I don't like the way their connections say they're 
the source. Plus, I have not added nor do I plan to upload all the documents 
I've acquired through the years. Not to mention I hate the way Ancestry changed 
it's search.   Anyway, Two of my lines are the same surname so I've always kept 
them separate that is until I combined the two in Legacy. while merging I must 
have accidently said a son was the father as in my Legacy program the son is 
now identified as the father and also as the son. Their RIN is the same so I 
can't merge the two. Is their an easy way to correct this? or do I just have to 
remove him from my file and the names associated with him?   Thanks for any 
help anyone can give me.   Cindy Hofmeister [email protected] 




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