FamilySearch guide for connecting or creating relationships and for correcting existing relationships in Family Tree

You can correct a person's listed sex in Family Tree. The options are male, female, and unspecified.

You can fix incorrectly or inadvertently merged records that contain information about multiple people.

Editable fields can vary based on the location and language of the user, and any restrictions associated with the collection.    

You can correct family relationships in some historical records collections.

Submit requests for catalog collections to the FamilySearch Library.

You can edit or delete a correction that you submitted to fix an indexing error in a historical record.

When a child in Family Tree is connected to the wrong mother or father, you can correct the parent-child relationships.

In Family Tree, you can edit a person's brief life history that has been written by a Family Tree user. You can also choose to replace the computer-generated life history shown on the About tab with the user-written history on the Details tab.

Our goal at FamilySearch is not only to connect individual families, but to connect the human family. In order to accomplish that goal, we n…