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Member Since: November 2007 Posts: 12 Send Message	Kathryn	Report	29 Jul 2016 19:12
Member Since: November 2007 Posts: 12 Send Message	I accidentally made a copy of a relative in my tree. How do I get rid of it without going to the original and deleting everyone attached to him?
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,988 Send Message	+++DetEcTive+++	Report	29 Jul 2016 19:52
	You could ask Support if they will do it for you, although they might say you'd still have to delete the attached relatives. [email protected] Althernatively, you could change his name to something like 'Error' and leave him hanging in the wind.
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Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 5,249 Send Message	Kense	Report	30 Jul 2016 20:15
	It is a feature of the GR tree software that if the same person appears twice in the tree (say as the result of cousins marrying, or two brothers marrying two sisters of the same family) that sometimes a second box for that person appears on the tree. The box that is a copy is marked as a copy and the data is the same for both instances. If that is the case then do not delete one or you may end up deleting both.