Families

The Families screen lists the family units (partners and their children) imported from your GEDCOM.

Open it from ForeBranch → Families. Family structure comes from your GEDCOM: to change partners or children, edit your genealogy software and re-import.

Filter tiles

• Total – all family units.
• No Partner
• No Marriage – families with no marriage recorded.
• Has Children and No Children

Search for a family

1. Enter a family ID or name in Search.
2. Optionally enter a Place (marriage place) and a Date, either a single year such as 1850 or a range such as 1850-1860.
3. Choose a Tree, or leave it on All Trees.
4. Click Search.

The list columns

• Family ID – click to open the read-only View screen, or click Quick view beneath it for a pop-up summary.
• View on site icon
• Partner 1 and Partner 2 – each name links to the person, with their ID beneath.
• Marriage – sortable.
• Children, Notes, and Last Modified

Quick view

The Family Details pop-up shows the Family ID, Tree, both partners, marriage date and place, and the number and names of children with their IDs.

View a family

1. Click the Family ID.
2. Review the Tree, Partner 1 and Partner 2 (each with a View on site link), Marriage (“Not recorded” if blank), and Children.
3. Click Back to browse to return.

Delete a family record

Fixing the family in your genealogy software and re-importing is the preferred approach. If you do need to remove a family record from the import:

1. Click the red Delete link in the Last Modified column, or Delete family record on the View screen.
2. Confirm the prompt.

To delete several families, tick their boxes, choose Delete Selected from Bulk Actions, and click Apply.

Families on the public site

Visitors see families on the /genealogy/families/ page. The number of families shown publicly can differ from the total on this screen. See Surnames, Families, Places & Sources Pages.