Family Echo Q&A - Recent questions

Can I get a Fanchart view on Family Echo?

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:06:48 +0000

How do I share a family tree ?

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:39:57 +0000

change language

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:27:40 +0000

Where do I enter the name on first entry?

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:58:27 +0000

Den Titel meines Stammbaumes ändern "Meine Familie"

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:43:29 +0000

Leider gibt es keine "Homepage" bei mir. Sobald ich mich anmelde, wird mir mein Stammbaum angezeigt, eine Liste aller meiner Stammbäume existiert nicht.

Wie kann ich demnach den Titel "Meine Familie" ändern?

Mein Stammbaum ist ein einziges Chaos.

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:20:34 +0000

Mein Stammbaum ist ein einziges Chaos. Die Verbindungen gehen kreuz und quer durcheinander auch über Geschwister hinaus. . Muss ich das anders einstellen oder ist das normal ?

copying a tree

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:26:48 +0000

How do I turn two people into cousins, parents-in-law, etc?

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:12:54 +0000

remove access already provided

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:29:08 +0000

is there a way to remove the email IDs to whom i shared edit rights earlier. Changing my password will not help because each person will have their own authenticator password.

Whats the best file format to download & import it unto reddit?

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:11:47 +0000

How do I upload a Gedcom file?

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:51:22 +0000

how to delete person

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:05:25 +0000

How do I remove a "friendship" that I accidentally created? No delete options anywhere...

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:57:40 +0000

I accidentally added a friendship between my cousin and her mother. Her mother married into the family and I cannot see an option to delete the mother, nor the friendship connection between her and my cousin.

How to add more family members grandparents on both parents

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:44:03 +0000

How do I add grandparents, great grandparents and great great grandparents

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:05:08 +0000

how can I get the tree to show the real names I've input instead of just "me" mother of me, etc.

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:56:58 +0000

Save settings to account.

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:44:50 +0000

Is there a way to save my settings to my account so that every time I log in, no matter what device my settings are automatically set and I don't have to reset them every time?

How to make the deceased bolder print

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:52:25 +0000

How do I share the tree with a sibling

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:06:03 +0000

How do I delete a 2nd set of parents because once entered i can get rid of and

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:36:24 +0000

is there a way to search questions to find an already answered question so I don't have to scroll through the list?
Thank you

sarah

How do you make siblings twins or triplets?

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:13:32 +0000

Bisakah anda buat tetangga, guru, dan murid dalam silsilah, saya ingin tambah kerabat di kota.

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:48:35 +0000

How to force a person to the LEFT or RIGHT

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:50:52 +0000

I am trying to build my family tree but the website keeps adding people from my mom's side inside the dad side.

The relationships are correct, but visually it's a nightmare. How do you visually keep the mom and the dad sides separate?

How to add aliases and alternate name spellings?

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:01:18 +0000

I currently don't see any field for aliases or alternate documented spellings of a person's first or last name. The closest available field is "Nickname", which doesn't exactly serve the same function. I'm trying to help make certain distant relatives more searchable, regardless of which spelling the user types into the search bar.

I'm curious how other Family Echo users may approach this issue. And given this new features and relationship types have been added over the years to FE, could this new field be added to this site in a way that could be exported, at least in the site's native FamilyScript format.

Box colours are stuck to someone else's settings.

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:52:47 +0000

While I was making a family tree, I opened someone else's tree through a link in a separate tab. This person had customized their box colours and background. Now whenever I reload or open any tree, including my own, it uses the settings from that one particular other person's tree. It doesn't matter how often I reset everything and click save, or log out of my account and close all tabs, that one person's settings are always back. How can I fix this?

Restarting my computer fixed it.

How do I enter marriage dates

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:23:19 +0000

How do I make a separate family tree in an already existing one?

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:21:28 +0000

Hello there. Here's a question that nobody may understand: How can I make another family tree in an already existing tree?

How to set god parents without them becoming partners?

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:19:05 +0000

A person in my family has 2 godmothers and 1 godfather. None of them are related or in a relationship. I can only add a secondary and tertiary set of parents and if I add say Godmother 1 and Godfather they become ex-partners when they were never together, and removing godfather as a relationship removes him as a godfather.

Is there a way to add them all without creating a relationship?

comment faire apparaitre le nom de jeune fille sur l'arbre ?

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:59:03 +0000

Can you make pets be friends with other pets?

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:12:18 +0000

I assume not because I don’t see much of a setting for that, but there might somehow be a way I just haven’t seen yet because it’s super not supposed to happen.

And while we’re on the topic of pets, why do they show up as the “children” of their owner/s? I want them to be older than their owners (I already have them as older with birthday years, but they are still “Children” and it slightly ticks me off)

can we make the border gradient, (pick two colors). can it be done using a CSS extention? If not, how can we do this?

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:15:38 +0000

Am I able to change a setting and add those more distant relatives onto my tree?

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:46:19 +0000

Bisakah kamu buat tetangga, guru, dan murid dalam silsilah, saya ingin tambah kerabat di seluruh kota.

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:11:44 +0000

How can I save the data/entries on Family tree?

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:16:24 +0000

House details

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:25:19 +0000

Is it possible to have a photo option added for residences? For example, including a photo of someone's childhood home....

Is there any way of adding a sibling from the already created tree?

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:54:47 +0000

Two of my grandfathers married from the same family. So their wives are siblings. How can I show this?

Custom-color box or direct ancestor-only viewing?

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:11:10 +0000

I am interested in highlighting or restricting my view to ONLY my parents, their parents, their parents, and so on. Is there a way to manually customize the color of these people (say, make them all a bright yellow), or adjust my view to only these people (which I believe are considered my direct ancestors)? Thank you so much!

How to add ancestors

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:44:20 +0000

how can I share this same tree with someone else to edit?

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:02:22 +0000

I'd like to share this with multiple family members, how do I share it with them so that they can edit?

I have child assigned to two sets of parents. tried using the Set Parents feature, but keep getting error "split tree"

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:08:21 +0000

How to export the family tree ?

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:52:01 +0000

I don't manage to export my tree (GEDCOM format), I can't see any button on the sidebar on the left of the screen... Can anyone help ? Thanks in advance.

I have messed up the tree and just want to start again - and I can't seem to delete everyone?

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:19:57 +0000

Override name capitalization, i.e., van Smith vs Van Smith?

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:37:25 +0000

How to add the place of death?

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:22:08 +0000

How do I delete pepole it won’t let me

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:10:47 +0000

how do you add step childreen

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:56:47 +0000

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

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

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

How to delete a name

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:06:24 +0000