Family Echo Q&A - Recent questions and answers

Name capitalization? Last name is "ten" lower case "t" keeps capitalizing.

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:58:00 +0000

Answered: How to delete a name

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:41:09 +0000

If you just want to remove a person's name, click on their name, click "Edit [Name]'s Details" and delete everything from the name friends.

To delete the entire person from the tree, click on the person, click "More Actions..." and click that last button that says "Delete [Person's Name]"

If you do not see the Delete button and instead see a message that this person cannot be deleted, then you have to first delete either all of their direct ancestors or all of their descendants first, so that there is no gap in the tree.

create new tree

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:51:30 +0000

revoke shared link

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:52:12 +0000

Hi, i share my tree to some of my relatives using link.

1. How I can manage the links that i already shared?
2. Can I revoke the shared links?

Regards,

Daniel

Answered: Import gedcom

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:16:18 +0000

When you create a new tree a button saying "Import GEDCOM or FamilyScript..." is available until you make any edits, select that button.

Answered: How do I save as a PDF file?

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:12:36 +0000

Select Download (the down arrow at the bottom of the screen), the ability to set the PDF's properties and download or print it will appear in the side panel.

How undo a relation edited by mistake

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:33:26 +0000

come posso cambiare il nome del luogo scritto in modo errato

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:01:37 +0000

How to reactivate a closed account

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:24:59 +0000

Can ylou reactivate a closed account and if so, how do you do it?

Other partners showing as main partners

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:16:39 +0000

I have them set differently, but no matter which option I choose (divorced, engaged, relationship, etc), the line thickness behaves as if they’re married. This is a major problem for me as one of my family trees is a polycule and relies on the differentiation to make sense of it. My other one also cannot have a specific relationship showing as married. Is this an issue for anyone else?

Image sizes up weirdly

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:37:13 +0000

On default width images upload look completely normal, However if i try making the width bigger so i can actually read things written- certain images just size up and look extremely odd.

I have no idea how to actually post an image here, the method makes absolutely no sense to me. So instead, here's two imgur links to my screenshots of it.

Default Width: https://imgur.com/JncSHE5
Any Bigger Width: https://imgur.com/sEvDzHU

Answered: can i make more than one family tree on one account?

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:33:47 +0000

Yes, that's no problem! You'll have to go to "My Account" (if you're currently working on a family tree, there's a button on the upper right side of your screen) where you can see stuff like your E-Mail address and username. Below is a list of your family trees, and below that list the option "Create or import new family" that allows you to either start a new family from scratch or import a family tree you created on another website.

Hope this helps!

Answered: i cant change "me" in the family tree.

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:16:15 +0000

I had this problem for years and only managed to solve it today: I clicked on "Tools" and then "Change default person"

Answered: How to share the tree with a link but not give option to display dates of birth

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:12:33 +0000

I don't think you can share the FamilyEcho link with someone without displayed life dates. Depending on the size of your family tree, it might be an option to make another tree without birth dates?

Another idea I'd have is to change the family tree view to "Complete", disable life dates in your options, and then turn the tree into a PDF (if you click on the "Print" option, you can choose to this). You could share the PDF with who you want to share without the possibility of them toggling birth dates back on, but depending on the tree size it might be a bit difficult to view.

Paramètres de l'arbre

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:40:36 +0000

Comment faire pour garder les paramètres de mon arbre (informations à afficher, paramètres des lignes,...) qui se réinitialisent après chaque déconnexion ?

Merci

Add a feature to show Titles being passed down?

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:02:16 +0000

It would be good if there would be a feature where you can show lines (or arrows?) of titles being passed down. I have been trying to make a family tree where I need (usually) hereditary titles being passed down, and it's not always obvious the order of titles being passed down, and there are people completely unrelated to the previous holders who need to be shown for completeness' sake.

How do I print my PDF using your service?

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:27:11 +0000

Answered: How to export GEDCOM when sidebar has no export option

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:34:49 +0000

I don't know what device you are on (maybe the layout is different on mobile), but on a desktop device, you'll have a white bar on the bottom of your screen with buttons such as "Options", "Print", "Download", "Share" etc.

If you click on "Download", you'll be able to download your family tree in different formats, including GEDCOM.

Hope this helps!

como puedo cambiar el idioma

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:04:44 +0000

Answered: Warum wird die Schrift auf einer Seite unterschiedlich dick dargestellt und wie wird es geändert?

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:11:12 +0000

Hallo! Könntest du vielleicht genauer erklären, was für Schrift unterschiedlich dick dargestellt wird?

Falls du nicht die Dicke der Schrift, sondern die Farbe meinst, dann werden verstorbene Mitglieder eines Stammbaums in gräulicher Schrift angezeigt (was eventuell so wirken kann, als ob deren Schrift dünner wäre); um das zu ändern, müsstest du unten auf der Leiste am Bildschirmrand auf "Options" klicken und kannst dann unterhalb der Boxen, in denen du die Farben für Hintergrund und männliche und weibliche Personen einstellen kannst, auch einstellen, in welcher Farbe lebende und verstorbene Personen angezeigt werden können - und da kannst du dann für beide die gleiche Farbe auswählen.

Wenn es nicht das ist, befürchte ich, dass man wenig an der standardmäßigen Darstellung der Schrift ändern kann; die Website erlaubt es, festzulegen, was für Informationen angezeigt werden, und z. B. wie viele Generationen und wie viele Leute auf einmal, aber wirklich konfigurieren kann man stilistische Elemente wie Schriftgröße oder -dicke aber nicht.

Alles Liebe!

Answered: Wie ändere ich Angaben zu einer Person?

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:59:52 +0000

Um die Angaben zu einer Person zu ändern, musst du zuerst auf die Person klicken, die du ändern möchtest. Auf der linken Seite deines Bildschirms erscheint dann ein Fenster, in dem einmal alle bereits eingetragene Informationen zu der Person stehen (z. B. Geburtsdatum, aktueller Nachname und Nachname bei der Geburt).

Wenn du auf die Schaltfläche "Edit [Vorname]'s details" klickst, kannst du diese Angaben bearbeiten oder hinzufügen. Standardmäßig kannst du an dieser Stelle Vor- und Nachnamen eintragen (und beim Nachnamen differenzieren zwischen dem, mit dem eine Person geboren wurde vs. den, den sie aktuell (z. B. durch eine Ehe) trägt) sowie Geburts- und Sterbedaten festlegen (mit der Option, diese als bekanntes Datum, "Bevor", "Nach", "Ungefähr" oder Zeitfenster zu markieren); um Sterbedaten einzutragen, musst du dabei das Häkchen bei "This person is living" entfernen.

Wenn du über dem Feld für "Given Names"/"Vorname" guckst, siehst du dort eine Reihe mit Reitern - "Personal", "Partner", "Contacts" und "Biography". Du bist aktuell auf dem Reiter "Personal", kannst aber auch auf die anderen klicken und die bearbeiten.

Unter "Partner" kannst du spezifizieren, wie genau eine Partnerschaft, in der die Person sich schon auf dem Stammbaum befindet, aussieht (beispielsweise "Verheiratet", "Geschieden", "Verlobt", "Annuliert"). "Contact" lässt dich verschiedene Kontaktdaten wie Adresse, Telefonnummern, Blogs und so weiter eintragen, und unter "Biography" hast du die Möglichkeit, zusätzliche Informationen wie Geburtsort, Hobbys, Aktivitäten, Beruf und andere Notizen einzutragen.

Dabei steht es dir immer vollkommen frei, jede Angabe nach Belieben zu verändern oder hinzuzufügen; du kannst also selbst entscheiden, wie ausführlich du welche Person auf deinem Stammbaum mit Informationen versiehst.

Wenn du weitere Fragen hast, würde ich dir empfehlen, in die Häufig Gestellten Fragen zu gucken. Die sind zwar auf Englisch, aber mithilfe von kostenlosen, registrierungsfreien Online-Übersetzern wie Google Translate oder deepL kannst du dir bestimmt einen guten Überblick verschaffen.

Ich hoffe, ich konnte helfen!

Answered: how do I share the tree with other/

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:02:14 +0000

i presumed you want to share it with an individual within the family tree
click the name of person you want to share.
Look at the panel on the left side
theres a button to invite the person to check the family tree
hope answer your question

How do I assign admin rights to a family member?

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:40:03 +0000

Answered: How to add family that is already in the family tree (as someone's partner)?

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:22:55 +0000

No worries, you don't have to delete anyone! If you choose the person you want to connect to another branch on the family tree, you'll see a button titled "More Actions" (beneath "Add brother/sister", "Add child" etc.) If you click on "More Actions", another menu opens, and one of the first options you should see is "Set parents". This gives you the option to select two people already on the tree as parents (or just one person, if only one parent is known).

So if you were somehow related to your partner "A", and you discover that A is also related to "B" via another branch of the family, you create how the two of them related by creating both of their parents, (i. e. A's and B's mothers are sisters), and then set A's parents.

Hope this helps!

How do I add marriage dates and locations?

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:16:47 +0000

How do I add a second user

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:22:52 +0000

Answered: removing connections that split the tree?

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:31:07 +0000

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to remove a branch on a family tree (if you don't want to delete each member of the unwanted family individually). If you are just annoyed by seeing them, maybe it could be an option to visit the "Options" setting of your family tree and select the number of generations displayed on said tree? You can select how man generations of parents, children and other ("other" being aunts/uncles, their children, their partners, their partner's relatives and so on) you want to display - if you select "none", you'll only see a person's direct ancestors, siblings and direct descendants.

Depending on how big your family tree is, how many branches it has and what you want to use it for, this option might not work well for you, as you might want aunts/uncles and so on to be displayed.

Hope this helps!

Answered: How do I delete a family memeber?

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:24:05 +0000

To delete a family member, you first have to select them.Below the info fenster on the left of your screen are multiple options (i. e. "Add brother/sister", "Add partner/ex"); select "More Actions". This opens a menu with buttons such as (depending on the person marital status, parents etc.) "Set parents", "Change partners" or "Add new friends".

The last button says "Cancel", and above it usually is a button labeled "Delete [first name]". If you click it, you'll have to confirm you want to delete them, and you're done.

There are, however, some people you cannot delete because that would split the tree. If you had a tree with a couple, their son and their grandchildren, you wouldn't be able to delete the grandchildren's father as this would remove the connection between the kids and their grandparents. To delete the father, you'd thus have to delete his children first.

Hope this helps!

Answered: My parents are showing as married when they are divorced. How can I fix this?

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:15:58 +0000

This is strange and never occured to me - when I set a couple as "ex-partners", they usually stay this way. Maybe try a workaround and delete one parent and add them again as ex-partners?

Answered: Is there a way to make non-biologically related people be Aunt/Uncle and Niece/Nephew?

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:27:43 +0000

your best bet may be the godparent option, or possibly put this person on the tree as a friend of the parents and then in the child's 'set parents' select them as one of the second parents, then in parent type choose 'other' and then create a term, like 'Honourary Aunt/Uncle' for example.

Hope this helps!

Is there a way to add multiple photos (like a multiple photos tab) that shows more photos other than one picture?

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:51:35 +0000

Answered: How do I update photos on the family tree

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:16:23 +0000

Click on the photo on the side bar.

ADDITIONAL GROUP FAMILY PHOTO

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:41:07 +0000

In addition to individual photo, can we ask for family photo and get it displayed alongside the individual photo,
to clarify
i submit my own photo
and a photo of my own family

Answered: Can you add footnotes

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:38:49 +0000

I think you can't add footnotes to certain fields. Like, if you are creating your own family tree and an aunt says "Our deceased great-grandfather was born at April 11th, 1918" and your dad says "No, he was born at August 11, 1919" you can't put a footnote on the field "Birth date".

What you can do, however, is to go to "Biography". There you can stuff like "Birth Place", "Profession", "Interests" and so on. Below all the given options is a button "+ Add custom family field" which creates a new field in the "Biography" section that you could title "Footnotes" and add everything you'd like to annotate.

Hope that was helpful!

Answered: How do I email my family tree that is saved?

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:33:07 +0000

You have two options to do this:

1.) You click on a living member of the family tree and then select "Share" on the bottom of the screen. You can then choose the permissions you want to grant to your family members (either to only view the family tree or to add edits as well). After that, you either use familyecho.com's E-Mail template to send an invite link, or select "Create Link". This of course creates a link you can send to anyone you like and that gives everyone with that link the permission to either view the family tree or edit it (though only users who are signed in to familyecho can use all of the "Edit" features).

If you create the link while selecting the person "Mattheusz" on your family tree, every person who clicks on the link will see a view of the tree that is focused on Mattheusz (and, if you selected the permission "Edit") be able to edit Mattheusz without logging in. As you said you want to share your tree with family members, I just assume it's your family tree, it could be thus a good idea to send each family member an own link centered on them, so that they can edit any information about themselves if they like.

2) If you are finally "done" with your family tree (aka: don't expect to make any changes soon) you can click on "Save" instead of "Share" and select a data format. This option allows your family members to have a "copy" of the family tree for themselves (as they can't save the tree if you have just send them a "Share" link), and if they use other geneaology programs, they can upload it there. However, if you change your family tree after saving it on your computer, your family members will only see the old version.

You can of course combine both versions and send your family members a saved HTML of your family tree as a "backup" and share links as well, or upload the HTML on a filehosting server (or just Google Drive) and update it if you change the tree.

Hope this helped!

Answered: How do I delete a child from a set of parents?

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:12:40 +0000

This depends on the exact kind of family relationship. If you just want to have the kid disappear from the tree, you can click on the kid, choose "More Actions" and then select "Delete [name of child]". (If the child has children themselves and/or a partner that is/are not connected to other people on the tree, you'll have to delete them first.)

If you want to keep the child but change their parents, you have to click on the child, select "More Actions" again and then "Set Parents". The kid's current parents will be displayed as "Primary Parents", and if you click on their names, you'll be able to select which people on the tree should be the kid's parents instead. If the child has (ex-)partners or children, they'll be transfered as well; siblings won't, however, so if you want to change multiple children's parents, you'll need to do this for every child.

Hope this helps!

Answered: Can we have in relationships a option for widow and widower?

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:05:00 +0000

I think the only option for a person to be marked as widow/widower is to create a couple and mark one of the partners as "Deceased". If you click on the button "Partners" (between "Personal", "Contact" and "Biography"), you'll see a list of all partners a person has had. After clicking on "Edit details", the website offers you different kind of specifications for the relationship ("Married", "Annulled", "Reconciled" etc.) and also "Other" which allows you to create an own label (that could be "Widowed").

Maybe there is another option, but if, I'm not aware of it.

Have a nice day!

Answered: Can I add a title or heading such as Fox family?

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:55:15 +0000

Yes, and it's quite easy. You just have to open your account (either by logging in new or clicking on "My Account" on the upper right side of your screen, right between "Save" and "Logout"). On your account, all of the family trees you have created are listed, and next to each tree are the options "Remove" and "Rename". If you click on "Rename", you can choose the family's title that is deplayed when sharing/working on the family tree.

Hope this helps!

Answered: Add child to existing family tree

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:54:28 +0000

If you want to add a child to an existing family tree, it's easiest to establish the kid's parents' relationship first. Given one of the parents is called "Linda", you'll click on Linda's name on the tree, and an info box on the left side of your screen shows you all the personal data you have added for her (such as life dates).

Below these information is a button with "Add partner/ex" that allows you to add the person Linda should have a kid with; we'll assume the second parent's name is Ahmed in this example.

After you have added Ahmed (of course you can skip the first step if both parents are already a couple (or ex-couple), you click on the button "Add child" that appears below the button "Add partner/ex". If you click on "Add child", you'll see the options "Add child with Ahmed", "Add child with new partner" and "Add child without partner". In our case, you'll of course select "Add child with Ahmed" and enter the child's name, life dates and other information (i. e. "female, Layla Jones-Aciman, born 2015 in Birminghan") you want displayed.

If you want to add more than one child per couple, you can either go the same route of "Add child" -> "Add child with" or just click on the child already existing and select the option "Add brother/sister".

Hope this helps!

Answered: How do I delete romantic relationships?

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:45:39 +0000

If you want to delete a romantic relationship, you'll first have to click on one of the partners you want to delete. An info box will appear on the left side of your screen with information like birth dates, surnames at birth etc. (if you have entered them), and below these information are a few buttons ("Add parents", "Add brother/sister" etc.). The last button is titled "More Actions", and if you click on it, it offers you first the option to set the person's parents, and then "Change partners".

After selecting "Change partners", you'll see all the (current and former) partners this person has had. If your person doesn't have any kids with the partner you want to remove, you'll get the option to "Set [Partner's name] to ex-partner", "Set [partner's name] to extra partner" and "Remove partner [Partner's name]". Now you can choose if you want the two people who shouldn't have a romantic relationship anymore to be ex-partners or delete the relationship altogether (if there had never been a romantic relationship in real life).

However, there are two restrictions to this: 1) If the two people have a child together, you can't delete the relationship, you can only mark the parents as being exes instead of current partners. 2) If one of the partners wouldn't be connected to any other member of the family tree if you deleted the relationship, you can't delete said relationship. You can, however, just delete one of the partners.

Answered: My tree is a fictional family from a series of published novels, set in the 19th century. How do I share it?

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:03:21 +0000

I know I am very late to the party, but maybe this is still helpful for you (or anyone else who might need an answer). You can mark the person from whose "PoV" you want to share as "Living" for a moment (though they are dead, of course), go to "Share", let the website generate a link, copy said link and set the person in question as "Deceased" again. The link will still direct to them, though they are now dead "again".

Can I share a family tree from a deceased person's PoV?

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000

Sooo, right now I am in a rabbit hole creating a large family tree about various nobles throughout the ages and consider sharing it with a few friends. As you could guess, basically everyone on this family tree is deceased (because of course Edward the Confessor didn't live to be a thousand years old). When I try to share the family tree (clicking on the "Share" button while having selected i. e. Edward the Confessor), the following message appears:

You cannot share the family with Edward who is marked as no longer living. Please try clicking someone else on the tree.

Well, I tried, and learnt that I can only share the family tree when clicking on a person who is currently alive (which are ... approximately ten people in this tree, as I like the middle ages). Of course, I can share this way (and I can mark a dead person as alive, copy their link via "Share" button, share it with my friends and set the desired person as deceased again) but I am curious if there is any option that allows me to share directly from a deceased person's box?

Answered: can I invite a family member to edit

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:56:18 +0000

Find the person on the tree, select Invite [name] to share family, set the permsions then either select Send Email or Create Link.

Add child to existing family

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:10:20 +0000

Answered: how do change a picture

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:29:11 +0000

Click on the picture.

Answered: McAfee Spam Pop Up

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:31:45 +0000

I have also experienced this problem! It's super annoying. To get rid of it I just pressed the back arrow for the browser (Although it might not be on all browsers for some reason) and even then it was just a temporary fix. What worked was installing an ad blocker on my computer. It is curious to me how it only happened on my computer and not my other devices. I have determined it's just a really quite annoying ad pop-up.

That's at least how I dealt with it. Hope it works for you!

One one of my trees the parents are not centered on the tree, can I fix that?

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:29:11 +0000

How do I see the written relation between the members on the tree?

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:48:24 +0000

For example, I want the tree to be in list format:

Jane is brother to John

Jane is cousin to Joe

Is there a way to print each child and their family individually?

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:21:04 +0000

We have a very large family so the family tree is very big. I would like to print each of the 8 children and their families individually as separate sheets for our family reunion. Is there a way to do this?

What would be the print settings to print an entire tree as a banner about 4'x2'?

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:16:59 +0000