If you have a web tree or a tree created from a Gedcom file, you might find this article useful as it explains how to edit the information on the people in your family tree via the website:
I'm making a guess here, but I have a feeling you may be trying to change someone's name on their account, rather than their name in the tree.
Is the person with incorrect name spelling a member of your family site by any chance?
If this is the case, then: depending if that person is a member in your family site ONLY or is a member of other family sites you will or will not be able to change the name.
First, I will explain how to change a name in your family tree.
1. You edit your family tree on your family site and not in Family Tree Builder so the instructions below pertain to editing online. Keep in mind that the instructions for editing details in Family Tree Builder are different.
2. To edit a person's name in your tree go to the family tree itself and click EDIT on the person's genealogy card. This will bring up a little window in which you can change name, date of birth, gender, etc.
3. The other way to change someone's name in your tree is using the new profile pages. In order to reach someone's profile page, go to the tree, click on the person to bring up his or her details on the left side of the screen and then just to the right of the personal photo, click on the View Profile button.
This will take you to the profile page of a person in the tree. Here if you click on "Edit Profile" you will be able to change a person's name in the tree.
Next, there is a difference between someone's name in the tree and the name on their account if they are also a member of MyHeritage.com (your family site).
Why is this so? Because one person may have memberships in many different family sites. And in the trees on those family sites the person's name may appear differently according to the preference of the Site Manager. For example, I might be listed under my first and maiden name in my mother's tree. In my mother-in-law's tree, I may be listed with my husband's last name and in my own tree I may list myself with my nickname.
The name on a person's account at MyHeritage.com doesn't change. In most cases it is only editable by the owner of the account. There is one case in which you, as Site Manager, may also edit the name on a person's account. That is if the person is a member of your site and has no other family site memberships.
If you want to check a person's family site memberships go to the profile page for that person on your site. You get to the profile page either by going through the family tree (as described in step 3 above) or through the Site Members page.
If you are able to edit the person's name on his/her account, you will see "Edit Account" as one of the options under the profile photo for that person when viewing the profile. Click on it to change the person's name and make sure to click the Save button at the bottom when you're finished.
You guesses wrong,Its my tree, my account, no both name I want to chance are of dead persons, and they have never hate a tree, the names whit correct spelling are only on 2 other sites, 1 it on my aunt’s site and 2 at Heater Kushion site (a distant family),
1. No that the problem I can not do that on my site, only if I have made the tree online on my site, if it is an uploaded tree it is not possible online on my site, and when I change the name in my FTB and uploads it, the corrections not corrected on my site, it is still whit the wrong names, I know that the editing details are different,
2. That’s the problem, there are no EDIT on the person’s genealogy card, if it is an uploaded tree on my site, if I have built the tree on my site there is a EDIT
3. No not if its uploaded from FTB, only if the tree its made online is there a Edit profile, Next.I have discovered that, I’ve started this tree using a GED file created whit another Family Tree program some year’s ago, all family names were written in capitals when they came up on the site, All them I could change in my FTB and then upload the modified, but not does 2 namesNow I have tried whit a new account, upload an new tree whit the correction, now does 2 names comes up on my site whit only family name and given name are unknown, weird,
I made the account, then I must surely be the one who owns it an be the site manager,
latest news
now I have started a new account and uploaded the whole tree again,
ithad a second names mistake, the given and born names of the 2 when I could not change the names were gone missing, went into my FTB and looked, ther was the given and born name missing again from the edit flag, after I re-wrote the real name again and uploaded it, I got the right name up, really Weird,
According to your account details the tree on your family site is editable online and not published from Family Tree Builder. This is the reason I gave you instructions for editing online.
It will be great if you can clarify for us in the future whether the problems you are having are in Family Tree Builder or in your online tree.
it is true
I have made a tree online also, (thats editabel online (no problem ther)), because I could simpe not get some of the things that I edited in my FTB to be edited on the online tree too, when I uploaded from my FTB, especially the 2 names, the strange thing was that some of the names what I editet in my FTB disappeared again in the edit option in FTB after I had uploaded it to the site, but I could still see the names on FTB just are not on the edit flag,
Now I tried to download the GED file from the tree I've made online on the side and made a new tree in my FTB with that,
I then uploaded it to a new account with a new email address, and now funny enough the two names I would change came up but not whit given and birth name, just the name they were married to,
I went back in my FTB and looked into the editing page of these 2 people and could see that now the names also ther was gone, but onley on the edit flag,
I wrote them back in again. and saved it and uploaded the tree again, and magic, now they were there, the right names, odd,
I've discovered that if a tree is made of FTB you can not edit it online on the page/site, but you have too edit it in the FTB and upload it again
there was just another problem that some people had disappeared from my tree, when I uploaded from my FTBthe factor could be that ther is a max of 250 people and I have almost 600 in my tree i the FTB, (I'm still new to this site and will see how it works first)so it shows not all of them on my sit
Some of the key people were missing so I deleted that i uploaded from my FTB again and have now a tree in my FTB and an identical made online that i can edit online,
so the problem is solved by a smal detour,
i can always delete one later and use the FTB to edit and upload from,
I've created a Family Tree in preparation for a celebration we're having for my mom, Gloria White on nexrt Friday. I'm troubled because the link from our celebration website brings up the tree in a completely different configuration, with all the added family members listed as private/unviewable. Can you please help with this asap. I liked these graphics, but if there is no way to have the link bring up exactly the pages I've created, I'm gonna have to do all of this work over on another site and time is really of the essence!
I've created a Family Tree in preparation for a celebration we're having for my mom, Gloria White on nexrt Friday. I'm troubled because the link from our celebration website brings up the tree in a completely different configuration, with all the added family members listed as private/unviewable. Can you please help with this asap. I liked these graphics, but if there is no way to have the link bring up exactly the pages I've created, I'm gonna have to do all of this work over on another site and time is really of the essence!
I have too many sites on my family. I would like to delete one or two. How do I go about doing that? I can't find anyplace where it says to delete a site. Thanks
Everytime I open my site my pictures seem to download over and over. I am now showing over 1000 when I know there should be no more than 250. I also seem to have too many project names. How can I continually work on just one and keep a back up on that one? Exactly what does "publ:sh" do?
The pictures are downloaded over an over to your site since your tree is duplicated on the Family Tree Builder. Therefore everytime you publish, you publish all your trees with all the pictures each tree contains.
My recommendation is to delete the duplicated trees and their pictures in the Family Tree Builder and in the Family Site.
To delete trees from the Family Tree Builder:
1. Open the Family Tree Builder
2. Go to File > Manage Projects.
There you will see a list of the trees that you have created in Family Tree Builder.
3. Click on the tree you want to delete.
4. Click on ‘done’ to finish.
To delete trees from the Family Site:
1. Log into Myheritage.com
2. Enter to the section: Family Tree > Manage Trees
3. Click 'Delete' next to the tree you want to delete.
4. Click ok.
Hope this is useful. For further questions or comments, please feel free to contact us directly to support@myheritage.com
hi i am new to this ,can someone tell me whether or not you can copy all of your tree onto a dvd including photos. I am aware that it is in gedcom format ,but from there i have no idea of how the program works thank you meryle
You can generate a pdf of the main tree. Select the person for which you want the tree in Family Tree > Print Charts and you will get various options to generate a pdf.
Bring up your tree and click on the person you want to edit.
On the left, under where the picture goes, there should be 4 options. And under that, where the facts are, you goe to the fact you want to edit and click the box in that fact box and "edit" should come up on top.
