To edit a person or add details, first click on the person in question. A sidebar will appear, and you can choose multiple options from here
- Adding relatives
- You can click on "Add parents", "Add brother/sister", "Add child" or "Add partner/ex" to add this kind of relatives to your person
- If you want a person to have multiple sets of parents (if they were adopted, for example, and you want to display both biological and adoptive parents) you can click on "Add secondary parents" after you have added the first couple
- If you choose "More options" on the sidebar, you'll be able to add friends and pets as well
- Changing relationships
- If you have errenously set two people as partners, though they are exes, or chosen the wrong kind of parents, you can change this by clicking on "More Options" in the sidebar and choosing "Set parents" or "Change partner"
- Editing personal info: Click on "Edit [first name's] details":
- By default, this allows you to edit first and last names and gives you the option to fill in the birth date either exactly or as "Born before", "Born approximately" etc. Beneath the fields for adding the birth date is a checked box for "This person is living". If you uncheck it, the person will be displayed as dead on the tree and you can add the date of death beneath. You can also edit first names and surnames at birth vs. current (to choose whether to display the current or birth surname by default, you need to click on "Options" on the bottom menu of your screen and choose your preferred option under "Show names").
- When looking above the options for entering names, you can choose different tabs. The default tab is "Personal" (with names and life dates), but there are "Partners" (if the person is in a relationship), "Contact" and "Biography"
- Choosing "Partners" allows you to edit how exactly the partnership situation between one or multiple partners of the same person looks like, i. e. married, engaged, divorced, annulled. This is, however, purely flavor/background info for you and your viewers, as this doesn't change the display of relationships on the tree. If you have previously made "Lisa" and "Ahmed" ex-partners but choose "Marrried" in this tab, they will still be displayed as ex-partners - you need to make them current partners under "More Options" -> "Change partners" first to have them displayed as a current couple.
- Choosing "Contact" allows you to add contact info such as phone number or Email.
- Choosing "Biography", you can add a multitude of background infos for a person, such as profession, workplace or interests. You can also choose "Add custom family field" to create a space to add some specific info such as "Special cake recipe" or "Most cherished memory"
- Adding a photo
- To add a photo, again choose the person in question, and then click on "Add photo" above the tabs for "Personal", "Partners", "Contact" and "Biography". You can now upload a picture from your device - but be careful, uploading usually takes a few seconds and if you change the person before uploading has finished, the picture won't show up
- Customizing tree appearance: Click on "Options" on the menu on the bottom of your screen (if you are on a desktop device)
- You can check or uncheck what info you want to have displayed on the tree (i. e. you don't want to see middle names but want to display birth places)
- You can make the boxes for the people on the tree more narrow or more wide
- You can change text and background color
- You can choose how many generations should be displayed at any given moment, and whether you want a complete or partial view of your tree
- You can change the date format to your preferences (i. e. MM/DD/YYYY vs DD/MM/YYYY)
Hope this helps!
