Editing, Deleting, and Fixing Mistakes

Almost everything can be undone, and deleted genograms wait in Trash for 30 days. Here are the everyday fixes.

Deleting a person

1. With the Select tool (V), click the person once
2. Press Delete or Backspace, or click the trash icon in the Inspector footer

The person and the lines attached to them are removed. To delete several people, select them with Bulk Select (B) or Shift+click, then press Delete. You can also right-click a person or line and choose Delete.

Deleting or changing a line

Lines are separate objects, so you can fix a line without touching the people.

• Delete it: click the line to select it and press Delete
• Change its type: click the line and choose a new type in the Inspector, for example Married to Dating, or Biological to Adopted (or right-click the line and use Change type). Don't delete a marriage to show a divorce: pick Divorce on the Line type tab or add a Divorced event. For a dating, cohabiting, engaged or life-partner couple who split up, tick Relationship ended on the Line type tab.

If a line is hard to hit, zoom in first. More in Structural relationships.

A child is under the wrong parents

1. Click the line that runs from the wrong parent to the child and press Delete
2. Click the correct parent, click Draw Connection (the link icon in the quick-add ring), then click the child

Or ask the AI Assistant: "move Sarah so she is the child of John and Mary".

Undo and redo

• Undo: Cmd/Ctrl + Z, or the undo arrow next to the File menu
• Redo: Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Z, or the redo arrow
• History: the small arrow next to Undo (Revert to earlier change) lists your recent changes, so you can jump back several steps at once

Undoing an AI change

In the AI Assistant, click Undo last AI change to roll back the assistant's most recent edit. Normal undo works too. See Using the AI Assistant.

Deleting a whole genogram

On the Dashboard, open a file's … menu and choose Move to Trash. Open Trash in the sidebar to restore it within 30 days. Items are deleted for good after 30 days, or right away with Delete forever or Empty Trash.

Going back to an earlier version

Open the file's … menu on the Dashboard and choose Version history. Pick a snapshot and click Restore as copy; it opens as a new file, so your current version stays as it is.